THE Public Services RegulatoryAuthority (ARESEP) this weekannounced a 5.9% reduction in gas pricesand a 6.2% reduction for diesel.The prices take effect today, accordingto a...
PERU-BASED Ajegroup and U.S.-based Bridgestone Firestone and Coca-Cola are among the multinational firmsthat have announced plans to expand theirCosta Rican operations in recent weeks.Tire-producer...
TEGUCIGALPA (ACAN-EFE) – TheCentral American Economic IntegrationBank (BCIE) last week projected 3.2%economic growth for Central America thisyear, citing international economic trendsas the causes for...
WHAT’S 38 years old, four countrieswide, and comes in more than 30 flavors?For any Costa Rican, it’s a no-brainer:POPS, the premium ice cream companythat,...
AS happenswith most new technologies,some peoplehave alreadyrapidly implementedwireless networkswhile others havewatched the bravefew cuss and screamas they work to getthe new features tofunction. Actually,the...
NATURAL history II, geography ofCosta Rica, hotel accounting systems, conferenceorganization – these are just ahandful of the courses rooting the country’seffort to guarantee Costa...
BELIEVE it or not, golf in CostaRica got its start in the early 20thcentury with the opening of an exclusive,now-defunct course for UnitedFruit Company...
AT the beginning, it seemed a dauntingtask: driving a car with foreign plateson a six-country, 5,000-mile journey thatwould take me from the frigid plains...
WHAT’S in a tourism slogan?Costa Rica knows well the value of acatchy ad campaign. Its “No ArtificialIngredients” slogan is widely credited withparlaying the lackluster...
OFF the beaten path, in the north-centralregion of the country, TenorioVolcano rises over Arenal Lake, carpeted injungle and spilling rivers down its sides. Itis...
