A week after the reelection of U.S. President GeorgeW. Bush gave renewed hope to supporters of the proposedCentral American Free-Trade Agreement (CAFTA), businessleaders in...
THE U.S.-based Gordon and Betty MooreFoundation will donate $8 million to help Costa Rica’sfinancially strained national park system combat poachingand illegal logging on the...
GRANADA – The threat of post-electoralviolence in Granada, coupled withthe Tuesday night assassination of a journalistin the department of Chontales,marred this week’s municipal elections,the...
THE fact thatINS is the onlyinsurance companyin Costa Ricadoes not meanthat INS medicalinsurance is theonly coverageavailable. Othersources of medicalcoverage are:The Internet.Since the popularizationof theInternet...
LEGISLATOR Laura Chinchilla, ofthe National Liberation Party, hasdenounced a proposal to open an armsfactory in Costa Rica, the LegislativeAssembly announced.Chinchilla last week called on...
THE Legislative Assembly approvedthe 2005 national budget in first debateMonday after only one week of discussion,a record in the history of theassembly, the daily...
THE French press and the U.S.Securities and Exchange Commissionturned up the heat this week on Paris basedtelecommunications giant Alcatel,the alleged source of illegal payments...
IF residents paid their property taxes,trash-collection fees and other debts theyowe to the municipalities in which theylive, their roads would be smoother, theirsidewalks safer...
THE trial of a man suspected ofkilling 8-year-old Kattia VanessaGonzález began Monday with little dramabesides the momentary fainting of thegirl’s mother.As captured by television...
THE Ministry of Public Works andTransport (MOPT) has formed a three personcommission to study the controversialgovernment contract with RiteveSyC, which gives the company a...
