IN January, Central Bank PresidentFrancisco de Paula Gutiérrez estimatedthat inflation would reach 10% this year,down from 13.13% in 2004 (TT, Dec. 24,2004). This month,...
RESIDENTS of Buenos Aires, in thesouthern province of Puntarenas, haveelectricity in their homes and businessesfor the first time, thanks to the constructionof a new...
THE concept of recycling slipped intothe minds of Costa Ricans with their firsttaste of canned beer.According to Sergio González, directorof the National Center for...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS and governmentprosecutors are speaking outagainst a controversial management planthat outlines procedures for zoning anddevelopment in the Gandoca-ManzanilloNational Wildlife Refuge, on the southernCaribbean coast.The...
SANTANA Delivers: Legendary musician Carlos Santanascratched and wailed on two guitars before a near-capacitycrowd at the Saprissa Stadium in Tibás, north of San José,Wednesday...
IT would seem sensible that a hospitalshould ban smoking within its buildings.The dangers posed by cigarette smoke bothto smokers and other patients in delicatestates...
THE year’s first solar eclipse takesplace this afternoon and will be visiblethroughout Costa Rica.An annular effect, in which the moonappears centered like a bull’s...
PUBLIC institutions throughout thecountry – from the National Power andLight Company (CNFL) to the Ministryof Public Works and Transport (MOPT)– have until June to...
NEARLY two years of governmentstudies and alliance-building efforts haveresulted in significant improvements forchild-safety efforts, especially on the locallevel, the director of the National CommunityDevelopment...
AN April 1 meeting between CostaRican President Abel Pacheco and MartínTorrijos, President of Panama, yieldedagreements on various cooperative measuresto strengthen the struggling frontierregion between...
