PUTTING one stretch of the Inter-American Highway in the hands of privatebusiness, the Costa Rican governmentlast week signed a contract with aconsortium of businesses...
AUTHORITIES are investigatingtwo deaths and other suspicious circumstancessurrounding the beaching of anAsian fishing vessel just outside Golfito,in southern Pacific Costa Rican waters.Environmentalists and Coast...
BLOCK by block, business by business,73 representatives of the NationalStatistics and Census Institute (INEC) arecombing the cities of the Central Valleythis month, gathering information...
THE Ministry of Agriculture andLivestock (MAG) has received a loan for$14.4 million from the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank to form a program tostrengthen sustainable agriculture andfishing.More...
DURING the first eight months ofthis year, agricultural exports increased10% compared to the same period lastyear. Overall exports increased by just0.7% during that period,...
STARTING a business, hiring or firingpersonnel, closing a business andother related procedures generally takelonger in Costa Rica than in other LatinAmerican countries and most...
REGIONAL airline Grupo TACA hasunveiled a new initiative, “CentroaméricaFácil,” to cut ticket prices by as much as50% for travel throughout CentralAmerica and Mexico.TACA executives...
FORMER Costa Rican PresidentRodrigo Carazo (1978-1982) is one of thefounders of the University for Peace.However, he does not think it takes a million-dollar university...
SUSPECTED pedophile ArthurKanev, the first U.S. citizen to be extraditedto Costa Rica from the UnitedStates since the two countries signed anextradition treaty in 1982,...
