OMBUDSMAN José Manuel Echandilast week announced the creation of anonline Transparency Network that willallow the public to access informationabout the accounts and expenditures ofpublic...
THE Costa Rican government willassume control of Juan SantamaríaInternational Airport starting Jan. 15,2005, if an agreement is not reached bythen between government officials andairport...
TOURISTS departing Costa Rica byair can pay their departure tax in advanceand avoid long lines at the airports.Travelers leaving Juan SantamaríaInternational Airport northwest of...
“THE AIDS epidemic is the most dramaticepidemic humanity has ever seen,”said Patricia Salgado, Costa Rica presidentof the Joint United Nations Programmeagainst HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), at...
COSTA Rican filmmaker HildaHidalgo says receiving support fromColombian writer Gabriel GarcíaMárquez to adapt his novel “Del Amor yOtros Demonios” (Of Love and OtherDemons) for...
AGENCIES of the Costa RicanElectricity Institute (ICE) and ICE-authorizedcellular phone dealers confrontedendless lines of customers Monday andTuesday hoping to buy the last 17,000GSM cellular...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The countriesof Latin America and the Caribbeanmust strengthen and continue to reformtheir banking systems to achieve highergrowth rates, business competitivenessand stability,...
FOREIGN Trade Minister ManuelGonzález this week urged Costa Ricanbanana producers to “maintain calm” inthe face of the conflict between CostaRica and the European Union,...
MEMBERS of the Central American-Chilean Free-Trade AgreementCommission met Nov. 25-26 in Santiagoto discuss ways to strengthen the existingagreement, which has been in effect inCosta...
