Saying that the only way for the Americas to get ahead is by embracing globalization, President Oscar Arias inaugurated the Americas Conference, a business and political forum sponsored by The Miami Herald, in Miami, Florida Wednesday night, according to a statement from Casa Presidencial.
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By Blake Schmidt and Katherine Stanley
Tico Times Staff
The naming of a new executive president for the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) this week drew fire from labor unions and rekindled controversy surrounding the administration’s highly anticipated proposal to break up the state-run monopoly and open up parts of the telecommunications market to competition.
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By Blake Schmidt, Tico Times Staff
Business leaders who have been waiting for months to hear more about the Arias administration’s fiscal reform plan have finally received a plate full.
Finance Minister Guillermo Zúñiga […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The telephone company says it has begun the job of transforming the nation’s 8,000 pay phones into uniform devices that accept money, phone card with an embedded chip and two other types of phone cards. The initial work has begun in Tres Rios, said the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad.
Phone users […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Opponents of an underwater tuna farm in southwest Costa Rica brought their arguments to the Asamblea Legislativa Thursday for a hearing of the Comisión Especial de Ambiente.
Opponents have filed a Sala IV constitutional court appeal to stop the project. They argue that the environmental studies were incomplete.
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