THE 2004-2005 cruise-ship season,officially inaugurated by TourismMinister Rodrigo Castro last week,promises to be a big one, with 70,000more visitors anticipated than during theprevious season.The...
THE National Concessions Council(CNC) has received bids from seveninternational consortiums competing for acontract to build the Metropolitan ElectricTrain (TREM) project.The consortiums are made up...
A rice mite that has attacked plantationssince April or even earlier maycause a decrease in Costa Rican rice productionof 40,000 tons and an estimatedloss...
ANY Citibank or Citigroup customersreceiving an e-mail asking them to visit aWeb site and enter their account informationshould report it immediately to bankofficials because...
SAN GABRIEL DE TURRUBARES– With a few thousand dollars in donatedfunds, know-how from Universidad Nacional(UNA) and a million bees, housewivesin this rural area of...
GRANADA, Nicaragua –With a failinggrade of 3.6 out of 10, Latin Americaranks second to last behind Africa (3.0) onthis year’s Corruption Perception Indexprepared by...
NO Clowning around: Clowns and hundreds of otherGuatemalans marched on the capital Wednesday in commemorationof the 60th anniversary of the “Democratic Revolution,” whenteachers and...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – ACriminal Court in Guatemala this weekopened a case against six former paramilitariesaccused of having participated in a1982 massacre of 143...
PANAMA CITY (AFP) – The openingof Panama’s agriculture and telecommunicationssectors remained a majorsticking point during this week’s fifthround of free-trade talks between Panamaand the...
OFFICIALS of two political partiesin opposition to the ruling SocialChristian Unity Party (PUSC) demandedexplanations from Taiwan and evenspoke of breaking diplomatic ties afterthe media...
