Contact: Dan Chambers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel: 506-2261-6822 CR Tel: 506-8818-0262 Email: info@TheCostaRicaNews.com THE FUTURE OF COSTA RICA: LEADING BIOFUEL PRODUCTION Over the years, terms like construction, development and real estate have failed to take into consideration the words sustainability and environmental well-being. In fact, so much so that infrastructural development tends to take [...]
Biofuels is on the rise… again. The first time some painful lessons were learned for fast-in investors. This time the focus is on second generation biofuels and Central America. First generation: Why so bad? Some of it´s obvious and has been covered before: using petroleum-based fertilizer to grow corn, which is sprayed with petroleum-based pesticides [...]
Last year Costa Rica suffered less from the effects of inflation, than any other country in Central America, according to a ranking (Spanish only) published this week. Tight control over the cost of regulated services was one reason for the favorable results. Not all the news was good, however, since major causes for low inflation [...]
Canada and Costa Rica have concluded a second round of talks on the improvement of their existing free trade agreement (FTA). The successful conclusion of this stage in negotiations was announced by Canada’s Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway. Talks took place from February 6 to 10 in San [...]
We purchased our lot in August 2007 from Pacific Lots of Costa Rica, located along the Costa Ballena in the southern Pacific region of Costa Rica. The lot had all infrastructure already completed (road, water and electric) which is rare in many developments. We began working on our home design with the developer in June [...]
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) — Foreign direct investment in Costa Rica rose 52 percent to a record $1.56 billion in the first nine months of 2011 on increased spending by technology and telecommunications companies. Investment in the Central American country’s free-trade zone, where U.S. corporations such as Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. [...]
1. A country open to foreign investment It is known that the promotion and creation of ideal conditions for foreign investment isessential for the stimulation of exports. This also allows new technologies and createsemployment. The Costa Rican government and its laws encourage direct foreigninvestment. This attitude is shared by the two major political parties and [...]
In today’s market many Costa Rican sellers want to know the secret to selling their homes in record time. Sellers want to know ways to salvage the equity they’ve accrued over the past years. Unfortunately, there is no magical formula to determine the perfect sale. Selling quickly is no “sure thing” in the Costa Rican [...]
The Latin American and Caribbean region showed great resilience to the international financial crisis according to a newly released U.N. report on foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2010. Costa Rica was the second largest recipient in Central America.
TCRN STAFF: SAN JOSE (Costa Rica), Rene Castro, Costa Rican Foreign Minister met this week along with Costa Rican ambassadors in Asian countries to move forward their efforts in the region. The Minister and Foreign Policy Director Jairo Hernandez met in Beijing, together with Costa Rican ambassadors to China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Qatar and [...]
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