No import tax, no annual ‘Marchamo’ – Bill offers big incentives for electric, hybrid vehicles
The incentives for the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicles included in the bill are significant, and would likely lead many car buyers to consider such vehicles should the bill…
Hoteliers decry bill that would ban golf courses in Costa Rica
The Costa Rican Chamber of Hotels has issued a statement decrying a bill presented recently by Rep. Suray Carrillo (FA) that would prohibit the existence of golf courses in Costa…
Regulator opens bidding on project to bring broadband Internet to Caribbean communities
Costa Rica telecoms regulator, SUTEL, through the National Telecommunications Fund (FONATEL), has opened to bidding a project to bring high speed, fixed-line Internet service to several areas of the country’s…
Costa Rica’s largest shopping mall to open November 11th, creating thousands of new jobs
The opening of the new shopping mall will generate some 3,500 direct jobs and 4,000 indirect jobs between now and early 2016, according to Lady Lee, the Honduran company which…
Massive public sector strikes expected to cripple Costa Rica in coming days
What public sector union leaders are promising to be the largest series of union strikes in decades are expected to cripple Costa Rica in the coming days as talks between…
Andres Oppenheimer: The fall of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela
The Trans-Pacific trade agreement signed last week between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries will be another nail in the coffin of the populist governments of Brazil,…
Costa Rica consumer association calls for tougher enforcement of tax on imported beer
The Association of Consumers of Costa Rica is pressing the Ministry of Finance for tougher enforcement of a tax on imported beer that has been in place since 1999.…
Thomson Airways to begin London-Costa Rica service on November 2nd
The British charter airline, Thomson Airways, which specializes in providing inclusive vacation destination packages, will begin offering non-stop service between London’s Gatwick airport and Liberia, Costa Rica on November 2nd.…
