Hotel owners, real estate developers, restaurants and other businesses raised $16,000 to repair the Calle Langosta road in Tamarindo, a beach town in the northwestern Guanacaste province, according to a statement from the nonprofit Pro Mejoras de Tamarindo Association. The money was used to repair 2.7 kilometers of the road, which runs from Tamarindo […]
By Katherine Stanley, Tico Times Staff
Presidency Minister Rodrigo Arias yesterday pointed to construction statistics from the Costa Rican Construction Chamber (CCC) as evidence of a strong economy.
According to the chamber, construction in […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The tourism minister wants no part of plans to set up promotional agencies in Guanacaste and in Limón.
In fact, the tourism minister, former lawmaker Carlos Ricardo Benavides, said he would rather set up his own eight regional offices with five employees each.
Benavides said last week that the twin proposals in […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Monday is the 100th birthday of José Figueres Ferrer, the major figure in 20th century Costa Rican history.
He was the man who led the rebels in the 1948 civil war, ousted President Teodoro Picado Michalski and others loyal to Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia and abolished the Costa Rican army.
He was […]
