by Rod Hughes
Do you know of any other country where this would happen?
Yesterday, the floor session of congress was adjourned due to leaks in the roof during a thunderstorm. Water not only came in drops and dribbles from the ceiling but washed in rivlets down the walls of the august chamber and flooded some deputies’ […]
by Rod Hughes
Nidia Gonzalez, a congresswoman of the Citizen Action Party (PAC, in its Spanish acronym) has resigned her seat due to a conflict of interest and Ottón Solís, the party’s chief, named the party’s assistant general secretary, Beatriz Rodriguez, as her successor.
A year ago, Gonzalez co-sponsored a bill to continue permanently as law a […]
by Rod Hughes
The gasoline from the National Refinery (RECOPE, its Spanish acronym) you get the second half of next year will contain 7% alcohol fuel, RECOPE announced yesterday. The plan goes along with President Oscar Arias’s ecology program as well as reduces somewhat expenditures for imported fossil fuel.
But, at least initially, it will not reduce […]
By Katherine Stanley
Tico Times Staff | kstanley@ti…
It’s a job that would make most of us quake in our boots or call for our mommies – but not Jorge Woodbridge, apparently.
The Vice-Minister of Economy and Commerce has been assigned the task of getting rid of government institutions’ unnecessary trámites, or bureaucratic processes. Institutional Coordination Minister Marco […]
