IT is now slighter cheaper for driversto fill up their tanks, thanks to a reductionin gasoline prices approved July 1 by thePublic Services Regulatory...
THE Costa Rican Electricity Institute(ICE) has implemented a new, automaticmeter-reading system in the country’shard-to-reach rural zones. The systemallows access to meter data in remotelocations...
THE Central American Bank ofEconomic Integration (CABEI) hasapproved a $40.5 million loan for theCosta Rican, Salvadoran, Honduran andNicaraguan private financial sectors.The funds were approved...
GEOGRAPHERS have found a rudimentaryhistory of pre-Columbian societieswritten in the sediment on the bottomsof Costa Rican lakes. The researchmay have debunked a popular conceptionabout...
THE Child Welfare Office (PANI) andits interpretation of children’s rights lawsmay be hampering orphans’ possibilitiesof finding adoptive parents and hamstringingthe press.Thanks to PANI’s reading...
WORKING in a profession inheritedfrom his father, in a community where manyfarmers relied on boyeros (ox-drivers) untilrecently, William Chaverri tills farmers’land in La Guácima...
AS if the Social Christian Unity Party(PUSC) weren’t facing enough challengesin the February 2006 elections – the partyhas reached historic lows in recent polls...
AFTER a week of controversy, RocíoAguilar started her new job Wednesday asComptroller General of the Republic.Legislators swore in the new comptrollerTuesday afternoon, eight days...
Although officials said early last weeknew efforts to limit traffic in San Joséwould be voluntary, they have sinceplaced a ¢5,000 ($10.50) fine on driverswho...
