ALL government offices and many privatebusinesses will close July 25 for GuanacasteDay, a national holiday to celebratethe annexation of the northwestern provinceof Guanacaste –...
A new police force created to overseesecurity at embassies and other diplomaticinstallations in Costa Rica has formallybegun operations.A spokesman from the PublicSecurity Ministry told...
Passport rates for U.S. citizenshave increased, according to the U.S.State Department. The new fee for those16 and older is $97, up from $85. Therate...
THOSE interested in growing theirown vegetables, medicinal and ornamentalplants using hydroponics are invitedto the free classes the Ministry ofAgriculture and Cattle offers once amonth...
IMAGINE San José buses and taxis nolonger spewing smoke from their exhaustpipes because the metropolitan publictransportation system has been replaced byfleets of electric buses...
THE five men chosen to analyze thepolemical Central American Free-TradeAgreement with the United States(CAFTA) met for the first time as a groupSunday and were...
THE government of Costa Rica lastweek decreed a salary increase of 4% forthe 157,318 public employees that workhere, the Labor Ministry announced.Labor Minister Fernando...
AS the Corporación deSupermercados Unidos (CSU) concentrateson opening a new Hipermás supermarketlocation in November inGuadalupe, a suburb northeast of SanJosé, it has also changed...
THE Constitutional Chamber of theSupreme Court (Sala IV) has rejected arequest for an injunction to ban theinstallation of telecommunications towersin the country’s protected areas.The...
