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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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Public employees at least will have a half-day holiday June 9 when the Costa Rican national soccer team meets Germany in the inaugural game of the World Cup tournament.
Game time is 10 on a Friday morning here, and the contest will span roughly two hours. Since public employees generally leave […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Arias administration will set up an ethics commission to handle complains of wrongdoing by public officials.
The objective is that public officials observe the highest ethical values in their political actions and in the exercise of their public position, said Rodrigo Arias Sánchez, minister of the Presidencia and the brother […]
By Saray Ramírez Vindas of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Immigration officials will give a second look to expats here who already have residency. They will be looking for persons who are sought for crimes elsewhere but still managed to slip into Costa Rica and acquire residency.
This was the word Tuesday from Mario Zamora Cordero, the […]
Costa Rican commercial authorities yesterday inaugurated “Costa Rica Arena,” an exposition in Munich, Germany of 70 Costa Rican businesses taking advantage of the World Cup to promote their products, according to the Foreign Trade Promotion Office (PROCOMER).
The inauguration was attended by Munich mayor Christian Ude, Costa Rican Ambassador to Germany Bernd Niehaus and PROCOMER commercial […]
By Katherine Stanley - Tico Times Staff
Leaders of President Oscar Arias’ administration yesterday announced one element of their plan of attack on the country’s dismal high-school dropout rates: a scholarship program for low-income students that offers financial rewards to those who graduate.
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Sala IV constitutional court has rejected an appeal that sought to make same-sex marriages legal here.
The Poder Judicial reported the decision Tuesday night. The court let stand an article in the Codigo de Familia or family code that defined marriage as only legal between persons of the opposite sex.
Lawyer […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Costa Rica has received half of what it seeks from the U.S. White House.
One of two pages that list Costa Rica as a member of the coalition in favor of the war in Iraq no longer carries the name of the country.
However, a second page still lists the country alphabetically […]
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has announced plans to build a new hotel, called St. Regis, at Playa Coyol on the Central Pacific coast.
The Costa Rican company Zürcher Arquitectos is charged with the design of the new resort, near the Marriot Los Sueños hotel. It will include 133 rooms, three pools, a beach club, a […]
