AFTER months of refusing to voice aposition on the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States(CAFTA), the Catholic Church of CostaRica made public...
PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco thisweek announced that he has returned twofree lifetime memberships he and hiswife, Leila Rodríguez, received during atrip to a luxury resort...
PRESIDENTIAL candidate andNobel Prize laureate Oscar Arias asked forthe forgiveness of the nation Sunday in thename of the National Liberation Party,although he did not...
OFFICIALS from the Citizen ActionParty (PAC) have announced they hopemoney they have saved through what theycall “policies of efficiency” in the LegislativeAssembly can be...
THE beleaguered Permanent FiscalReform Package got a break this weekwhen the Legislative Assembly voted toapply a new “fast-track” procedure to themuch-debated controversial tax plan.On...
IN a move that proposes to mergethe United States’ seventh- and eighth-rankedairlines, America West HoldingsCorp. and a group of investors last weekannounced plans to...
TACA airlines is offering a specialrate for excess baggage until June 15.The promotion applies to all flights toand from Central America, Los Angelesand San...
IN presenting his report on the firsttrimester of 2005, Central Bank presidentFrancisco de Paula Gutiérrez praised thePacheco administration and FinanceMinistry for keeping a tight...
GENERAL Electric (G.E.) ConsumerFinance, one of the largest consumer creditbusinesses in the United States, hasbought 49.99% of the Banco de AméricaCentral (BAC), a commercial...
