An ambiguous statement from theConstitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court(Sala IV) has Ombudsman José ManuelEchandi and the Ministry of Environment andEnergy (MINAE) at odds...
SOME Costa Ricans might never suspect that theyellow corn they buy at the Mercado Central, indowntown San José, may be a genetically modifiedtype of...
JUDGES sentenced Costa Rican prostitute SinaíMonge to eight years in prison this week after finding herguilty of heading a ring of underage prostitutes and...
REAL-estate insiders agree coastalproperties are in and should continue tosell well this year, but other trends in thebusiness are not so easily defined or...
COSTA Rica may have been at the center of theCentral American real estate radar for years, but the signalis spreading, and foreigners increasingly are...
THE fall began more than two yearsago with the collapse of several high-interest-paying investment companies, includingthe famous – or infamous, to some –Villalobos Brothers,...
FOR a business in Costa Rica, membershipin one of the country’s free zones,or zonas francas, can mean privilegessuch as tax exemption on imports andutilities,...
