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Leaders Grapple with Trash Dispute

THE company that runs the capital’sonly garbage disposal site, the destinationof more than 430 metric tons of trash collecteddaily from the streets of San...

Tica Student Stays in U.S.,

JUST 48 hours after Costa RicansMarvin and Marina González led theFourth of July parade in Jefferson City,Missouri – the U.S. community wherethey have lived...

Pre-Columbian Road Hunt Goes High-Tech

THREE U.S. National Aeronauticsand Space Administration (NASA) jetsoutfitted with infrared cameras and radarhave detected a subterranean network ofancient rock-paved roads that lace CostaRica from...

Gov’t Unmoved by CAFTA Vote

DESPITE the recent passage of theCentral American Free-Trade Agreementwith the United States (CAFTA) in theU.S. Senate, bringing it one major stepcloser to becoming a...

Central Bank Anticipates Inflation Greater than 10%

THE Central Bank has abandoned itsgoal of 10% inflation for 2005, bankpresident Francisco de Paula Gutiérreztold the press Tuesday. He said high oiland coffee...

Wal-Mart Eyes Central America

U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart is negotiatingto buy Dutch company Royal Ahold’sshares in the Central American RetailHolding Company (CARHCO), the businessalliance that comprises more than350...

Construction Quality To Get a Boost

A new collaboration between theFederated Association of Engineers andArchitects (CFIA) and the Costa RicanInstitute of Cement and Concrete seeks toimprove the quality of civil...

Pineapple, Tires Exports Lead Overall Increase

DURING the first five months of2005, tire exports from Costa Ricaincreased by 61% compared to the sameperiod in 2004. While no other sectorwas as...

Verizon to Cease Costa Rican Operations

MULTINATIONAL telecommunicationsfirm Verizon, which employs 150people in Costa Rica, will be concludingall operations here in the next two monthsand leaving the country because of...

Karaoke Bars: The Glory and the Shame

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”–Napoleon Bonaparte There is a dark current in Costa Rica – dormant, suppressed by day, flamboyant by night: it...

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