A study by MEIC (Ministry of Industry and Commerce) has shown that prices vary widely among toy stores this year. For example, a 429% difference was found in Monopoly games, that cost from as little as 2,420 Colones to 12,809 Colones. Barbie Dolls varied by as much as $10 from one store to another.
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ICE agencies and cell phone vendors were swamped yesterday and today as the new network was officially received at 7 pm Monday by ICE officials. 250,000 lines went on sale in 800 official distribution points nationwide. Almost every store, agency and booth had lines of people outside. Another 350,000 lines will be available by the […]
53,000,000,000,000 colones ($ 107 million) will be distributed to 156,000 government employees as their annual aguinaldo. (The equivalent of one month’s salary paid as a Christmas bonus to employees in Costa Rica). In this distribution are covered all of the employees of all the ministries, the TSE (Supremo Election Tribunal), the Omsbudman’s Office, Comptroller General, […]
