Archive for February 23rd, 2008

Rate Agency Cuts Home Electricity Subsidy

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

by Rod Hughes
ARESEP, the government utilities watchdog, will gradually eliminate the subsidy that has cushioned homeowners’ electrical rates for years beyond counting. Instead, the burden has been shouldered by industry and retail commerce who have paid higher rates to offset the loss to ICE, the government electrical monopoly.
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Tica Set to Climb Everest

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

by Rod Hughes
It is not unusual to see women climb to high places in Costa Rica—leader of a party delegation in the Legislative Assembly or the Vice Presidency, for example—but until now no Tica has aspired to climb quite so high as Gineth Soto. In fact, Soto plans to go […]

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