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Surf Organization Makes Waves in Tamarindo Beach

Costa Rica has become home to the first Central American chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit organization well known in the United States...

The Tico Times Presents Its New Look

In May 1956, The Tico Times was an eight-page newspaper with an all-volunteer staff serving a relatively small expatriate community.   Nearly 50 years later, the...

Central Bank Announces 2006 Monetary Policy

Aside from the drop in the colón’s devaluation rate against the dollar from ¢0.15 to ¢0.13 per day, the monetary policy presented this week...

Pilot Program for Plant Exports Under Way

In conversations about foreign trade in Costa Rica, it is only a matter time before somebody mentions ornamental plants.   A darling of the non-traditional export...

Organic Produce Forecast To Have a Strong Future

The commercialization of organic products has a promising future in Costa Rica since the large supermarket chains have entered the market, reported a study...

Gas Proposal Stirs Debate

Gas station owners continue to object a proposed change to gas prices that would allow more competition among stations; they now threaten both legal...

Trade Officials Report Banner Year for Exports

2005 was a banner year for the Costa Rican export sector, according to Foreign Trade Ministry officials – but that doesn’t mean exporters will...

More Than 1,000 Displaced by Flooding

ONE man is missing and more than 1,000 people were displaced this week on the Caribbean slope and in the Northern Zone after the...

Activists Protest Vehicle Inspection Co.

“OUT with Riteve!” “Long live Costa Rica!” The message was loud and clear at a protest Monday in front of the Ministry of Public...

Fishermen Block Pacific Port

FISHERMEN on the central Pacific coast blocked one of the country’s most important ports yesterday because the government has not approved their requests, including...

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