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The Regulatory Authority for Public Services (ARESEP) confirmed Monday that during August, they will begin to implement the new methodology to determine public bus prices, which will provide up to a 25% discount.According to an ARESEP press release, the...

Tomorrow (Tuesday) will be the second day this week with a protest, this time from taxi drivers calling for action against Uber and its affiliates.Even though Monday's protest by Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) workers did not significantly affect transit, it...

The sky is rather dark as we drive all the way up to the coast in Moín, a village just above Puerto Limón on the east side of Costa Rica. The rain season is showing off today; the inland...

With strong tone and strict form, the President of the Republic, Luis Guillermo Solis, warned on Friday that he will not tolerate taxi driver blockades and that if necessary, he will use all legal means and security forces to ensure...

The pregnant women of the Garabito canton understand the severity of the Zika virus, as 119 of the 351 confirmed cases have been from this region. They also understand that they must protect themselves from mosquitoes in the area, or their newborns...

Representative of the National Liberation Party (PLN), Rolando Gonzalez indicated that his candidacy to the Presidency is a likely decision, but has not yet been resolved.The legislator of 65 years has shown interest in representing PLN in the 2018 elections for months now.Gonzalez...

Esteban Picado is a tour guide at the business La Ceiba Ecoadventures. This past week Esteban came in contact with nature in a way that he wasn't expecting when he jumped into a river to save an anteater who...

Costa Rica and Panama recorded the most urban growth, product modernization, and productive transformation of their economy in the Central American region.More than 70% of all Costa Rican citizens live in urban cities, according to the latest State of...

Family agriculture generate most of the food in the region, especially food that is intended for domestic markets, but poverty affects almost half of all rural inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean, says the FAO.According to estimates made...

With the intention of overcoming the backwardness in road infrastructure that affects the competitiveness of Costa Rica, Mario Redondo, member of the Alianza Democrata Cristiana, presented a bill to declare a national emergency.The initiative would allow the Government to...