Archive for November 9th, 2005

“Fresh and Hot!” Get Your Insurance as of Monday

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Act early and you can beat the lines! As of Monday in over 700 authorized points of sale you can pay your mandatory car insurance for 2006. Besides the INS itself and its authorized agencies, these banks will have the stickers for sale: Banco Nacional, Banco de Costa Rica, Banco Crédito Agrícola (BanCredito), Banex, BAC […]

Nicaragua Wants Guanacaste Back

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

The Chancellor of Nicaragua, Norman Caldera, stated that Nicaragua was willing to go to the International Court in the Hague to ask them to return Guanacaste to its original owner.  In 1825 "Guanacastecos" voted to secede from Nicaragua, then joined Costa Rica as the seventh province.  This action was ratified in the 1858 Cañas-Jeréz treaty […]

RACSA to offer WiMAX

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Escazu and Santa Ana will be the first towns to benefit from Wi-Max access in Costa Rica, RACSA has announced its new program for 2006.  This will allow properly equipped PCs, laptops PDAs and cell phones wireless broadband access to the Internet.
The main advantages of the technology are lower cost (no wires), higher speeds( 500kbit/s […]