THE Costa Rican government says itplans to initiate the process of reviving therailway cargo service, in hopes of diminishingair contamination and saving gasoline.The project...
THE Rainforest Alliance, a NewYork-based non-governmental organization(NGO) dedicated to protectingecosystems worldwide, has launched abimonthly newsletter designed to shareinformation about sustainable tourism.The newsletter, called SustainableTourism...
Union leaders and other social-sectorrepresentatives in Costa Rica are promisingto step up their opposition to theCentral American Free-Trade Agreementwith the United States (CAFTA).On the...
THREE multinational giants withoperations in Costa Rica, Procter &Gamble (P&G), Kimberly-Clark and Intel,recently announced plans to expand theirpresence in the country by increasing thefinancial...
THE Guatemalan Ministry of theEconomy appears to have resolved alengthy dispute with Costa Rica overdairy products with a decision that favorsCosta Rican producers, according...
ALTHOUGH the nation’s SouthernZone is desperate for improvements ininfrastructure and job creation, and theregion’s development association has ¢10billion ($21.46 million) to spend, theassociation’s failure...
IN January, Central Bank PresidentFrancisco de Paula Gutiérrez estimatedthat inflation would reach 10% this year,down from 13.13% in 2004 (TT, Dec. 24,2004). This month,...
RESIDENTS of Buenos Aires, in thesouthern province of Puntarenas, haveelectricity in their homes and businessesfor the first time, thanks to the constructionof a new...
AN upstart Texan country-music singer or fledglingCeltic-music band from Scotland might cut their musicalteeth on airwaves piped to bean farmers in the Los Chilesregion,...
