Costa Rican Oil Refinery in long battle with tax authorities
Email this page August 19th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) The Costa Rican Oil Refinery (RECOPE) has been charged more than $180 million (¢96.6 billion) in penalties and interest by the Treasury as…
Hundreds of cattle smuggled into Costa Rica per week as drought ravages Nicaragua pastures
Email this page August 19th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Some 200 to 300 head of cattle are being illegally smuggled into Costa Rica from Nicaragua every week in the border areas of…
San Carlos residents report suspicious helicopter
Email this page August 19th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Residents of Aguas Zarcas, Venecia, San Miguel and La Virgen de Sarapiquí in San Carlos in Costa Rica’s Northern Zone reported to authorities…
Unemployment, poverty, and water scarcity top problems for Guanacaste
Email this page August 18th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Unemployment, poverty, and failing water infrastructure combined with record drought are the top problems facing Costa Rica’s Guanacaste province, Luis Diego Hidalgo, president…
Lawmakers, AyA, MINAE vow to solve Atenas water problem
Email this page August 18th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) PUSC lawmakers, the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and the Costa Rican Institute of Water and Sewers (AyA) say they are joining…
Police arrest 16 demonstrators blocking access to President’s condo
Email this page August 18th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Police officers arrested 16 people who were blocking the entrances and exits of the condominiums where President Luis Guillermo Solís lives shortly after…
French tourist drowns at Cokles beach in Limón
Email this page August 18th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) A 50-year-old French tourist identified as Jean Claude Gilberth Fronstaine drowned at Cokles beach in Limón over the weekend. The French businessman…
Suspected drug plane crashes near remote government airstrip
Email this page August 15th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) A small aircraft believed to have been carrying cocaine from South America crashed near a remote government airstrip in Barra de Parismina in…
