The Comptroller General's Office on Thursday ordered the immediate dismissal of Costa Rican Railroad Institute President Miguel Carabaguíaz, Social Christian Unity Party lawmaker Walter Céspedes and four ex-board members of the Agriculture Development Institute over a series of irregular property transfers between 2004 and 2005.
In a brief 15-minute ceremony, Supreme Elections Tribunal President Luis Antonio Sobrado on Friday morning officially presented Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera with credentials declaring him the 47th president of Costa Rica.
Correos de Costa Rica, the company that manages the country’s postal service, on Thursday launched a special limited edition of 30,000 stamps to commemorate Costa Rica's participation in the upcoming Football World Cup Brazil 2014.
Just over 378,000 foreign residents live in Costa Rica. Of those, 185,778 are employed, and 180,436 have health care coverage with the state-run Social Security System, or Caja, according to the “Third Report on Migration and Human Development," released Wednesday.
Increasing costs of electricity and raw materials lowered hiring expectations for this year in Costa Rica's industrial sector as employers expect a slowdown in new job creation, a study released Tuesday by the Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica showed.
A Foreign Trade Promotion Office report released Monday shows that Costa Rican exports totaled $11.5 billion in the last 12 months, representing an increase of 2.2 percent.
"It is a message to the world that this country is still thinking big," the president of the Central American Aeronautics and Space Administration said on Monday.
