Costa Rica has agreed to pay the medical bills and other compensation for some 12,000 banana workers and their relatives suffering lingering effects of exposure to pesticides in the 1960s and '70s.
Amazon Support Services Costa Rica inaugurated its fourth call center this morning and announced that it will increase its Costa Rican personnel by nearly 50 percent by the end of 2014, hiring 1,000 new employees.
Costa Rica’s GDP growth for 2015 is forecast at 4.3 percent, up from 3.7 percent in 2014. While Costa Rica outperformed many of its Central American neighbors, Nicaragua and Panama are set to pull ahead in 2015 with 4.4 and 6.2 percent growth, respectively.
The joint operation between Tourist Police, Judicial Investigation Police, the Coast Guard and the Health Ministry responded to complaints from businesses and tourists about aggressive unlicensed vendors, rampant drug use and robberies.
NEW YORK — Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died from the virus Wednesday while in isolation at a Dallas hospital, ending a case that helped bring into sharp focus the nation's risk from the disease.
The artists seem free and feisty: You will find the usual feel-good landscapes, but you will also find fiercely political work, covering every theme imaginable.
In the ongoing process to provide all electricity consumers in Costa Rica the ability to generate energy from small-scale renewable sources and exchange it on the national grid for kilowatt credits, the Public Services Regulatory Authority (ARESEP) on Oct. 2 approved a methodology proposal for how to calculate rates at which those credits will be issued.
