By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Efforts to ratify the free trade treaty with the United States suffered a jolt Thursday when deputies of the former government party expressed uncertainty about their support of the treaty.
The deputies are members of the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana, the party of former president Abel Pacheco. There are five of […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
More than 225 employees have quit the nation’s insurance monopoly this week, officials said Thursday.
The employees are leaving because they think that the Sala IV constitutional court will decide to put a top on the severance pay they now get. Now the employees when they leave get a year’s pay […]
By Leland Baxter-Neal, Tico Times Staff
After several decades of proposals, studies, inactivity and changes, the Boruca Hydroelectric Project appears closer than ever to becoming a reality – though not everybody likes the idea. Despite a relocation of the controversial dam, intended to lessen its impact, environmental and indigenous groups maintain their resistance to the project, […]
By Katherine Stanley, Tico Times Staff
Come 2008, Costa Rica will be home to two new luxury resorts, hundreds of additional hotel rooms, and thousands of new jobs, if projects announced this month by two international hotel chains go as planned.
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By Amanda Roberson Tico Times Staff
As part of a Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) initiative to target illegal taxi drivers, transit police in San José yesterday began fining them ¢26,000 ($51) and taking away their vehicle’s license plates, according to a statement from the ministry.
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