Daily Archives: November 16, 2010

President Laura Chinchilla Miranda got multiple votes of confidence Monday from two former presidents and five former foreign minsters. They said they supported her use of diplomacy in trying to turn back the Nicaraguan invasion of a large island in … Continue reading →

Long gone are the halcyon heydays where investors who had no intention of ever living in Costa Rica could come down, purchase properties, hold for a short while and flip them for a fast buck. But something new is now … Continue reading →

The voluntary tax on innumeracy, otherwise known as the national lottery, got a boost Monday with the delivery of the first of 20 kiosks as sales outlets for those vendors who have vision problems.

A California law firm has filed a class action suite against BBG Communications, Inc., the company that is known for charging astounding fees for credit card telephone calls. The law firm, The Consumer Law Group in San Diego, alleges six … Continue reading →

The national electric company plans outages today in Barva and downtown San José.

Rocks, described as being of big proportions, fell on the Interamericana Norte Monday at Cambronero, and officials closed the vital highway.

As the deadline for the long-awaited spectrum auction approaches that will end the monopoly of publicly owned Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad in Costa Rica, all five major Latin American operator groups remain in the race to win a new licence.