Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul yesterday announced that their countries will resume diplomatic relations, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry.
The two ministers are […]
By Blake Schmidt, Tico Times Staff
A press conference at the San José headquarters of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) became heated yesterday when an ICE employees’ union leader took the microphone to criticize the naming of the institute’s new president.
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Diesel fuel is going from 383 colons a liter to 364 colons or about 70 U.S. cents. This is a 5 percent reduction.
The price of liquid natural gas, which many Costa Ricans use to cook, also is dropping 10.5 colons a liter or 115 colons per 8.5 liter tank.
The reductions, […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Today is the day before the Día de Independencia, but it is the day with the most ceremony. The parades are Friday.
Somewhere between San José and Liberia today school children are carrying the torch of liberty that began its trek Sept. 1 in Guatemala. The torch passed into Costa Rica […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The executive president of the telecommunications giant Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, Jorge Gutiérrez, has resigned after just four months on the job. The resignation — said to be for health reasons — takes effect Friday.
He becomes the first member of the Arias administration to leave.
President Óscar Arias Sánchez quickly named […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Arias administration has a lot in common with the policies of the Movimiento Libertario, according to Rodrigo Arias, the minister of the Presidencia.
Arias had lunch Tuesday with Otto Guevara, the former lawmaker and presidential candidate who continues to be the president of the Libertario party. Óscar Arias Sánchez, the […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Sala IV constitution court has ordered a credit bureau to delete information about a pubic defender because the woman is afraid organized crime will use the data to threaten her and her family.
The action was brought last November by Karina Redondo Gómez and was decided Friday by the court […]
