Costa Rica is an adventure playground with laid back beaches, rainforests, active volcanos to colonial cities and cultural sites. The country is about the size of the states of Vermont and New Hampshire combined — with the Caribbean Sea on the east coast and the North Pacific Ocean on the west. Most tours include an [...]
ARIES March 21 – April 20 Your intuitive skills are going to be called on this week as you to try to identify something hidden that seems to be impeding your progress on several levels. Keep in mind that what, at first, appears to be the answer may, in fact, be a kind of emotional misdirection. [...]
From Tico Times – The Inter-American Development Bank (BID) approved $670 million in loans to finance the Reventazón Hydroelectric Dam – the most complex hydroelectric project ever built in Costa Rica – near the Caribbean slope town of Siquirres. The 305.5 MW project is expected to provide energy for some 525,000 families and comes with [...]
The Banco Nacional (BN) and the online payment firm PayPal announced last Thursday, April 26th, an alliance to facilitate electronic commerce in Costa Rica, thus allowing companies to use an internationally recognized system to send and receive payments in a faster and easier way. Although e-commerce has grown in the past years, internet sales have [...]
Most people’s ingrained perceptions of Puntarenas in the past were negative. I must admit when I was heading on the bus from San Jose to this Central Pacific port town I was prepared for the worst. I was told in the past by people that had travelled there it was a long bus trip and [...]
Denver, Co (PRWEB) April 28, 2012 – People looking to take advantage of Costa Rica travel dealscan find significant discounts during the green season. The term “green season” was originally developed because it was considered more appealing to potential clients than the term “off-season” which usually led to them to think about poor weather conditions. Costa [...]
April 27, 2012, San José, Costa Rica – In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, Nature Air is offering $5 flights for travel during the month of June 2012. Travellers can book a domestic flight to any of Nature Air’s 13 Costa Rican destinations from May 5 to May 10, 2012 for $5 (plus applicable fuel [...]
“A one stop shop for your competitive surfing needs,” is what former ASP photographer and Prodigy Competitive Surf Program cofounder Sean Rowland likes to call it. “We do it all, from video and photo review, coaching, training and heat strategy.” Along with cofounder and lead trainer Joe Rutland and surf coach Christian Saenz, the Prodigy Competitive Surf [...]
Costa Rica exports grew 16.1% in the first three months of 2012, by comparison with the same period of last year, according to the Promoter for External Commerce and the Ministry of External Commerce (Comex). From January to March, Costa Rica exported products with a value of 2,911 million Dollars (403 million dollars higher). The [...]
Canada and Costa Rica have concluded a third round of talks on the expansion and modernization of their existing free trade agreement (FTA). The latest negotiations were held in Ottawa, with a fourth round scheduled for June. The original FTA entered into force in 2002 but did not include provisions in areas such as cross-border [...]
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