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Agency Gutted After Port Protest

The director of the Costa Rican Fisheries Institute (INCOPESCA) has resigned following a protest by fishing boats that blocked a luxury cruise ship from...

CE Gives Prepaid Phones a Test Run

The Costa Rican Electricity Institute has launched a pilot plan for the long-awaited prepaid mobile phone program that it said will ultimately be extended...

New Hilton Hotel Opening Near Liberia Airport

A new five-story Hilton Garden Inn will open Dec. 1 near the DanielOduberInternationalAirport in Liberia, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste. It will be...

Minimum Wages Not Keeping Up With Inflation

Minimum wages have increased in the last two years, but purchasing power has dropped, according to a new study released by the National University...

State to Infuse Banks With $118m

To avoid a downward spiral in the productive and financial sectors, the Costa Rican government has proposed a preventive cashinfusion plan for three state...

As Gas Prices Fall, Filling Up Is Fun Again

After reaching record-high prices earlier this year, fuel prices are heading down yet again as the price of oil on the world market continues...

U.S. freezes $64 million in aid to Nicaragua

MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Citing “deep concern” over Nicaragua´s democratic process, the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced yesterday that it is freezing $64 million...

Costa Rica Supreme Court squashes coastal logging decree

The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court this week annulled a 2004 government decree authorizing the logging of coastal forests for eco-tourism projects. The decree...

Costa Rica, Panama racing to aid flood victims

The Costa Rican government will likely issue a state of emergency decree today in the wake of continuous rain and flooding on the country´s...

U.S. woman says Costa Rica ‘tried to forcibly extradite me without due process’

A U.S. citizen was arrested on Friday in Montezuma, on the southern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula, on the Pacific, and her toddler son...

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