By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The full plenario of the Asamblea Legislativa approved accepting a $127 million loan from Japan Tuesday. The money will be used to replace the aging metropolitan area sewer system and to build a treatment plant.
The Japanese Bank for International Cooperation offered the loan, but Costa Rican lawmakers stalled, and there […]
Yesterday, La Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP) proposed eliminating the subsidies that diesel, jetfuel, and bunker fuel (shipping) receive. This is unrelated to the taxes on fuel.
Because of the subsidy, regular and super gasoline, LPG gas and asphalt cost more.
ARESEP compared the subsidies with international fuel prices from 25/9/20006 to October 4th. The […]
By Leland Baxter-Neal Tico Times Staff Following a pre-dawn raid yesterday on a home in a residential neighborhood in the Caribbean-slope town of Guácimo, police arrested three of the eight prisoners who escaped from the La Reforma prison more than two weeks ago and killed a fourth in a shootout.
A fifth escapee, Robert Clark, […]
By Amanda Roberson and Katherine Stanley
Tico Times Staff
Back for round two of protests yesterday, opponents of the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA) returned to the streets to make their opinions against the controversial trade pact heard.
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The new Papagayo Marina, located on the Pacific Ocean, on which construction began at the end of August, will allow 370 boats and hopefully will give work to approximately 800 persons.
The work, which in the first phase will have a cost of $15 million, is being constructed in Manzanillo Bay, in the designated tourism magnet […]
By Blake Schmidt and Katherine Stanley
Tico Times Staff
Thousands of Costa Ricans hit the streets yesterday to protest the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA) under discussion in the Legislative Assembly.
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A protest march against the free trade treaty Monday drew fewer participants than earlier demonstrations, and coordinators hope to do better today.
Despite threats from opponents to the treaty, most public offices functioned with a degree of normality. Not counting marches roads were not blocked except in a few areas outside […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Arias government moved closer Monday to firing recalcitrant dock workers in Limón.
Marco Vargas, minister of Coordinación Interinstitucional, said that a judge has declared the job action by dock workers to be illegal. The decision came from a judge of the the Juzgado de Trabajo del Primer Circuito Judicial de […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Banco de Costa Rica said it has entered into an agreement with MoneyGram International, Inc., the financial services company. Bank customers will be able to send or receive money at any of the 800 teller windows in Costa Rica.
The agreement allows money to be sent to any country […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Government officials have worked hard over the weekend to occupy the moral high ground as free trade opponents begin two days of protest today.
President Óscar Arias Sánchez has ordered that police participating in crowd control not wear guns.
Both Marco Vinicio Ruiz, minister of Comercio Exterio, and Fernando Berrocal Soto, the […]
