THE country’s cattle farmers have a bigbeef with the government, which theyaccuse of doing nothing to help the sectorprepare for the yet-to-be-approved CentralAmerican Free-Trade...
CHANGES coming: Businesses in the capital, such as thesealong Avenida Central, were supposed to comply with new sizeand height limits on signs this week,...
THE increasing number of new residentialdevelopment projects in theCentral Valley, experts warn, could soonsaturate the country’s real estate market.In recent years, an increasing numberof...
AS the country’s air-traffic controllersentered the third week of their strike, thegovernment stood firm and refused to paythe salaries of the country’s 89 controllersand...
NEWLY appointed Women’s AffairsMinister Georgina Vargas is not going tolet the fact she is a replacement impede herambitions for the role she hopes to...
JUST days after a San José court reinstatedthem, members of the board ofdirectors of the Social Security System(Caja) – Costa Rica’s nationalized healthcaresystem –...
“DEMOCRACY is not an antidote forcorruption.”Dr. Jorge Malem, law professor at theUniversitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona,made this bold statement at the SecondNational Conference Against...
THE Costa Rican economy is in goodshape and has the potential to continuegrowing, but major reforms are necessaryfor that to happen, said Agustín Carstens,deputy...
ANALYSTS say low incentives forinvesting in colones could prompt CostaRican investors to take their money out ofthe country or invested in other currencies.This could...
