by TCRN Staff The Attorney General, Francisco Dall’Anese is spearheading an initiative to provide, free of charge, substitutes to drug addicts. A plan that aims to “break” the finances of drug traffickers. “It would reduce demand. The idea is to compete (with the drug) through the distribution of an alternative drug (created in the laboratory).” [...]
by TCRN Staff As of yesterday, the border crossing from Costa Rica to Nicaragua at Penas Blancas was reopened for trade, at least for specific products. According to Amparo Pacheco, Vice Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica, after being closed for two days due to disputes, the border opened yesterday and will remain open [...]
by TCRN Staff Roberto Kriete, CEO of TACA Airlines, said yesterday that his company has postponed huge investments in Costa Rica due to infrastructure constraints at the Juan Santamaria International Airport. Aeris took over the management of the Juan Santamaria last year and is tasked with completing the works to modernize the airport. The manager [...]
by TCRN Staff A 35% decline in national production of coffee in the last seven crops have stimulated authorities to the sector to begin seeking solutions to the problem. During the 2002-2003 growing season, production reached 2.92 million bushels (equivalent to as many bags of 46 kilos or pounds of processed coffee). The current harvest [...]
by TCRN Staff In 2009 the burden of public debt rose 2.9 percentage points and ended the year in an amount which represented 42.3% of domestic production. This is the largest increase in percentage points registered since 1999 and it reverses a downward trend that had that had been occurring since 2003. In absolute terms, [...]
by TCRN Staff Just two weeks before the start of the International Festival of Arts (FIA) 2010 organizers announced that literature itself will be included in programming. In a press conference Friday at the National Theater, the director of the institution, Jody Steiger, revealed that the FIA will include a mini-book that takes place during [...]
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