The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rica needs tax reform soon that will give fresh breath to their public finances, which have deteriorated due to a slowing economy and growing their debt to a hazardous level, a study...
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rican citizens donated at over $46,000 for the victims of last month’s Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines as part of a campaign by the Red Cross, the humanitarian agency reported.
The money raised...
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The U.S. Coast Guard has donated to a special team to Costa Rica for guidance and tracking training for creating a police unit specializing in diving.
"Our countries must remain focused on our common...
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - A couple of Dominicans were sentenced to eight years in prison in Costa Rica for the crime of human trafficking and sexually exploiting women in the south of the country.
The sentence was imposed...
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Accumulated inflation in Costa Rica during the first eleven months of 2013 was 3.16%, down from 4.26% in the same period of 2012, said the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC).
In November,...
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rican authorities have seized more than 8,000 firearms since May of 2010, when the current government started until today, most of which was in the hands of criminal groups.
"Importantly, planned and preventive...
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Judicial power of Costa Rica highlighted the progress in the digitization of the institution and the digital transparency as major achievements in their work report for 2013, which was released today.
The president...
The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rica has created a technical standard that will allow companies to become certified in gender equality, which makes it the second country to have a tool like this of its kind in...
The Milestone: Laboratorio Echandi’s Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Department has been accredited under the INTE/ISO 15189:2023 standard, making it the...
