Seven Foreign Insurers Waiting Market To Open
With the ratification of the Tratado Libre de COmercio (TLC) - free trade agreement with the UNited States - the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS) will eventually lose its monopoly on insurance in Costa Rica, opening the doors to competition.

Price of Gasoline Drops Tomorrow
Better wait till tomorrow to fill your gasoline tank, because as of midnight tonight the price of a litre of super gasoline will drop ¢46 colones and ¢27 colones for a litre of regular, following the publication of the quick approval by the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (Aresep) last week, in today's edition of the official newspaper La Gaceta.

Taxi Driver Appeals 'Uniform' Regulation
 On the first day that taxi drivers were required to dressed in uniform - white shirt and blue pants - the future is now uncertain, as taxi driver Ronald Gerardo Vega, appealed to the Constitutional Court (Sala IV) in an action known as a "recurso amparo", even though the majority of drivers are accepting the regulation.

Monument to Catholic Zionist To Go Up in Coronado
Workers have begun returning a monument to Latin American Catholicism’s leading Zionist advocate to a prominent location in Coronado, almost a year after it was removed for restoration.

It Will Cost ¢16 Billion Colones to Repair Roads and Bridges
The government estimates that it will cost ¢16 billion colones (us$32.5 million dollars) to repair the bridges, roads and sewers damaged or destroyed by floods in September and October, epsecially in the Northern and Central Pacific regions.