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Americas Advocate for Sustainable Agriculture Group

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Seventeen American countries will advocate for the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP19) in November for the creation of a working group for agriculture within the Convention United Nations Framework on...

Costa Rican School Desks Made from Recycled Material by Inmates

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Several Costa Rican schools have recently received over 5,000 desks made by inmates in prisons using recycled materials collected by the children themselves. The desks were delivered today at a school in San Jose...

Costa Rican Authorities Confiscate 2,500 Kilos of Smuggled Rice

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - Costa Rica authorities today seized and destroyed a shipment of 2,500 kilos of rice smuggling into the country via the Nicaraguan border, said an official source. The State Phytosanitary Service (SFE) of the Ministry...

Amazon Expands Operations in Costa Rica Creating 700 New Jobs

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Internet sales company Amazon announced today that it will expand its operation centers in Costa Rica, which will create 700 new jobs in areas such as customer service, administrative and human resources. "We...

Andaz Hotel in Guanacaste to Hire 300 Before December

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Andaz Papagayo Peninsula, where the Hyatt hotel chain sits, which will open on December 20th, has announced the hiring of 300 new jobs aimed specifically at people in the area of Guanacaste. According...

Association Agreement Between EU and Central America Close to Completion

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - A delegation from the European Parliament (EP) in Managua today highlighted the importance of the implementation of the Association Agreement between the European Union (EU) and Central America to launch the pillars of...

New Costa Rica Campaign Hopes to Revamp Coffee Industry

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The fast pace of modern life, drinks that dissolve quickly in water and the aging of traditional coffee drinkers in Costa Rica have caused a fall in the consumption of this local drink,...

Gas Prices Reduced by 4% in Costa Rica

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Regulatory Authority for Public Services (ARESEP) announced a 4.1% reduction in premium gasoline and 4% in regular, which will come into force soon. This lowers the price of a liter of super gasoline...

Costa Rica’s High Quality of Life

A small country in Central America with only 4.8 million inhabitants is one of the countries with the highest quality of life. What makes Costa Rica so special for both foreigners and inhabitants? It is said that the people...

Costa Rica Confiscates 14.9 Tons of Cocaine in 2013

The Costa Rica News (TCRN) - The Costa Rican police have seized a total of 14.9 tons of cocaine so far for 2013, nearly a ton and a half per month, said the security ministry. According to authorities, substantial improvements...
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Laboratorio Echandi Achieves First Specialized & Study Laboratory Accreditation in Costa Rica

The Milestone: Laboratorio Echandi’s Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Department has been accredited under the INTE/ISO 15189:2023 standard, making it the...