FOREIGN direct investment (FDI) inCosta Rica reached $617.3 million in 2004,a 7.5% increase over 2003, the Costa RicanInvestment Promotion Agency (CINDE)announced earlier this month.The...
COSTA Rica may soon offer guidanceto neighboring Panama in grape growingtechniques, although neithercountry has visions of mass-exportingpinot noir or juicy grapes anytime soon.Panama is...
BAC San José has become the firstprivate bank to operate in the rapidlygrowing coastal community ofTamarindo, in the northwestern provinceof Guanacaste.The BAC branch is...
IT is now slighter cheaper for driversto fill up their tanks, thanks to a reductionin gasoline prices approved July 1 by thePublic Services Regulatory...
THE Costa Rican Electricity Institute(ICE) has implemented a new, automaticmeter-reading system in the country’shard-to-reach rural zones. The systemallows access to meter data in remotelocations...
THE Central American Bank ofEconomic Integration (CABEI) hasapproved a $40.5 million loan for theCosta Rican, Salvadoran, Honduran andNicaraguan private financial sectors.The funds were approved...
GEOGRAPHERS have found a rudimentaryhistory of pre-Columbian societieswritten in the sediment on the bottomsof Costa Rican lakes. The researchmay have debunked a popular conceptionabout...
THE Child Welfare Office (PANI) andits interpretation of children’s rights lawsmay be hampering orphans’ possibilitiesof finding adoptive parents and hamstringingthe press.Thanks to PANI’s reading...
WORKING in a profession inheritedfrom his father, in a community where manyfarmers relied on boyeros (ox-drivers) untilrecently, William Chaverri tills farmers’land in La Guácima...
