Industrial entrepreneurs consider the country's high electricity tariffs as the main factor affecting their companies’ competitiveness, as well as costs of social security, high fuel prices, bad road infrastructure, unfair competition from informal businesses, and high taxes.
Those who fail to submit informative returns before the extended deadline are exposed to fines ranging from 10 to 100 base salaries, equivalent to ₡4.2-₡42 million ($7,475-74,750).
Participants during five weeks will visit companies or non-government organisations where they will work jointly on a venture action plan to be implemented here upon their return.
Caminos de Osa is a rural tourism project designed to help small businesspeople in this remote part of Costa Rica's southern Pacific get a piece of the lucrative tourism business around world-renowned Corcovado National Park.
The community of Sámara, Guanacaste, successfully halted the controversial real estate project Vistas de Sámara. The National Environmental Technical Secretariat (SETENA) annulled the environmental license...
Biodiversity conservation was central at COP16, the global climate conference where nations gathered to address urgent environmental priorities. For Costa Rica, conservation has long...
Environmental groups have reported a second incident of fish poisoning within two weeks in Laguna Santa Marta and Laguna Madre de Dios on the Pacuare River in Batán, Limón, Costa Rica. The contamination...
