A U.S. man was charged in Australia after $6.05 million in cash was found in seven suitcases in the Sydney apartment where he was staying. Costa Rican police are investigating.
Swiss Travel, Veinsa, the Costa Rican Social Security System's (Caja) union and Caja administrators are the latest targets of investigations into alleged electoral code violations.
Costa Rica’s exports of goods in 2013 totaled $11.4 billion, representing 1.4 percent growth compared with the previous year, the Foreign Trade Promotion Office reported this week.
Three of the candidates leading the polls in Costa Rica's presidential race will participate Friday in a forum organized by the National Association of Public and Private Employees, once of the country's biggest unions.
Costa Rica’s Social Security System, or the Caja, wants to reduce the number of people who smoke, as well as the high costs public hospitals incur in treating patients with tobacco-related illness.
Anxious not to miss the Palmares Festival some Ticos buy fake illness certificates to take a sick day, and that prompted the Social Security System, or Caja, to launch an investigation into the selling of counterfeited documents.
The latest fear-mongering campaign against the leftist Broad Front Party involves Subway Costa Rica franchises. Over the weekend, Subway employees complained of emails that attempted to influence voters that allegedly were sent out by the restaurant's management.
Avon, the “company for women,” had its franchise in Costa Rica scolded by the country’s Supreme Elections Tribunal for distributing political propaganda along with its mail-order products.
Japan’s Agriculture Ministry this week announced that Costa Rica is free of swine flu, which for local producers means they now have open doors for exporting pork to the Asian giant.
