The price of car insurance next year could increase by 14 percent if a National Insurance Institute (INS) request is approved.
The increase would apply...
Growth in the country’s exports from free zones (zonas francas), areas where businesses of a certain size pay no taxes, has slowed considerably this...
A free-trade agreement between Panama and Costa Rica will take effect Nov. 23, and tariffs will drop beginning in January, the Foreign Trade Ministry...
The Costa Rican business sector warned this week that credit restrictions imposed by the financial system are slowing local production, which is causing increased...
Experts in the construction industry estimate that about 80 percent of large-scale development projects along the northwest Pacific coast are on hold until the...
Before Adolfo Arias, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute’s (ICE) services director, could enter The Tico Times building for a recent live online chat, a...
LA ARGENDORA, Guanacaste – The best vanilla growers, says Amelia Paniagua, are the ones who love their vanilla.
“You have to coddle your vanilla plants,”...
The fleet of taxis that serve the JuanSantamaríaInternationalAirport will not be increasing fares any time soon.
The Public Services Regulatory Authority (ARESEP) this week rejected...
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) has struck down a long-standing policy in public schools that required students to attend religious...
