Government will pay $330 million in holiday bonuses tomorrow
Email this page December 1st, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) The government will deposit some $330 million USD (¢174.5 billion) in holiday bonuses (Aguinaldo) for government employees on Tuesday. Some 198,000 current…
Six American tourists suffer minor injuries when tourism van overturns
Email this page December 1st, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Six American tourists suffered minor injuries when the tourism van in which they were traveling overturned in the Don Bosco neighborhood of San…
Dutch police discover massive shipment of cocaine from Costa Rica hidden amongst cassava
Email this page December 1st, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Port police in Rotterdam in the Netherlands discovered on Friday more than 3,000 kilos of cocaine worth $150 million hidden in a container…
SANSA joins Nature Air in offering direct flights to Limon
Email this page December 1st, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Costa Rican air carrier SANSA Airlines has joined Nature Air in offering a direct daily route between San Jose and Limon, the company…
Costa Rica, China agree to resume Moin Refinery project, with some changes
Email this page November 28th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) The governments of Costa Rica and China intend to move forward with the development of a $1.3 billion USD project to expand an…
Costa Rica needs 73,000 migrant workers as harvest season approaches
Email this page November 28th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) Costa Rica is in need of some 73,000 migrant workers as harvest season approaches, according to estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture and…
Costa Rican consumer confidence erodes for second straight quarter
Email this page November 27th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) continues its downward trend, according to data released by the Research Institute of Economic Sciences (ICSI) of the…
Large chunk of volcano wall breaks off, falls into Turrialba’s active crater
Email this page November 27th, 2014 (InsideCostaRica.com) A section of the volcano wall at the Turrialba volcano has broken off and fallen into the volcano’s active crater, volcanologists from the…
