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Oil Prices Could Derail Country’s Monetary Policy

HIGH international oil prices could make it difficult for the Central Bank to meet the macroeconomic targets it set in its 2004 monetary policy,...

Tax Plan Controversies Continue in Congress

DESPITE setbacks with the new tax plan, Finance Minister Alberto Dent says the government is firm in its resolve to push the plan through...

Government Will Help Businesses Get Credit

PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco on Monday signed a decree creating a ¢9 billion ($21.4 million) fund to provide credit assistance to small and medium businesses...

Banco de Costa Rica Gets Huge Credit Line

THE Central American Economic Integration Bank (BCIE) on Tuesday gave state-owned Banco de Costa Rica (BCR) a $90 million credit line to be used...

Free Zones Worry About Taxes, Hail Measures

THE Association of Costa Rican Free-Zone Businesses (AZOFRAS) and the Foreign Trade Ministry (COMEX) are recommending that the corporate income tax under the proposed...

New Caribbean Trade Pact Sparks Optimism

PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco and Jamaican Prime Minister Percival J. Patterson, in representation of 14 members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on Tuesday signed the...

Needed: Clean Air, Water and Food

IN a moderate environment, three things only are needed to sustain life: Air, Water and Food. We lost control of the least of these,...

Guatemalan Prosecutor Appeals Ríos Montt Arrest

GUATEMALA (AFP) – The Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday it will appeal the house arrest of ex-dictator, former Presidential candidate and retired general Efraín...

Panama Canal to Launch Digital System

THE Panama Canal Authority will soon begin using a new system to share crucial data with vessels planning to transit the 51-mile waterway. The Automated...

Orchids Bloom at Annual Expo

TIME remains to see this year’s Orchid Exposition in the old customs house in Barrio La California, San José. Until Sunday, March 14, orchid experts,...

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