Latin America News - The Mexican and Brazilian candidates for the post of World Trade Organization director-general made it past the first round in the selection process, but Costa Rica's candidate was eliminated.
Mexico's Herminio Blanco and Brazil's Roberto Azevedo...
The San Ramon City Council submitted an appeal to the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) to suspend the endorsement of the contract for granting the expansion work on the San Jose-San Ramon route.
A unanimous vote, council members took...
Foreign currency liquidity is growing moderately and showing a tendency for reduced growth. To date, the liquidity in dollars and colones is growing at levels of 12%, however in an increase of 17% in dollars and only 6% was...
Coffee imports for domestic consumption of coffee show a reduction of 74% between 2012 and the previous year, which means that Costa Ricans stopped buying abroad and represents around 153,885 bags each weighing 46 kg., said the report fom...
The number of Latin Americans who have access to their bank with mobile divices will grow by 65% annually in the coming years and reach 140 million people by 2015, according to a Deloitte report released by the Latin...
The government of Costa Rica announced Friday a plan to install access to the Internet in every public school in the country in order to reduce the digital divide and have better teaching tools.
At present 4,800 public schools have...
The President of the Republic, Laura Chinchilla said that the "government understands that we must explain" and also "is willing to answer all the questions" what about the granting San Jose-San `Ramon, which resulted in a series complains among...
Since 2010 The National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), has measured the employment conditions of in the country and recently released the 3rd quarter of 2012 findings. If this period is compared to the same quarter of 2011...
The National Seismological Network (RSN) reports the month of March had a total of 25 earthquakes shook the country from activity in Coco-Caribbean plates and activity in local faults.
RSN Data reveal that 14 events owe their origin to subduction...
If you are a customer of mobile phone service Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), do not be surprised if your bill comes to zero, or, on the contrary, brings a surplus or maybe over charged.
The National Association of Workers...
