On May 12th and 13th Centro de Eventos El Pedregal will host the Expofranquicias 2016 event, making more than $1.8 million for investment, presenting more than 100 business concepts. The participants of the seventh version of the fair are over a 100 companies from Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Peru, Uruguay, United States, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, […]
Archives for May 11, 2016
Fraud with housing project on behalf of foundation
Fundación Omar Dengo (FOD) is warning the population of a fraud that is taken place using its name. The foundation clarified that unscrupulous people are using our name to ask for funds to finance housing projects, which are false… This foundation does not work with housing projects”. For this reason, they suggest people who have […]
PROCOMER opens office in Qatar
PROCOMER (Promotora del Comercio Exterior de Costa Rica) officially opened its first commercial promotion office in Doha, Qatar. With this new commercial branch in the Middle East, the intention is to broaden the opportunities for domestic exporters and to expand the exporting horizons for Costa Rica. We are doubling our efforts to promote business opportunities […]
Naturalized Costa Rican gets 20 years for “mega money laundering”
Arthur Budovsky, a Ukrainian-American who later became a Costa Rican citizen, was convicted to 20 years in prison for his leadership in a powerful structure dedicated to laundering hundreds of millions of dollars. He was arrested in Spain in 2013 and after a long legal battle, he was extradited to E.E.U.U. in 2014, to finally […]
153 Leatherback turtle eggs were saved
Thanks to patrolling operations in the beaches near Barra Pacuare, the looting of 153 Leatherback turtle –one of the most endangered species- eggs was prevented. The Coast Guard staff located two nests and sent them to a hatchery run by environmentalist organizations with which it has a strategic alliance for the protection of maritime resources. […]
Banco Central applies international finances standards
The BCR is now the second monetary authority in Latin America to implement International Finances Information Standards, with the intention of presenting information with the best international practices, standards and transparency, making analysis and decision-making much easier for banking institutions. Before the BCR, in Latin America only Brazil managed to meet the requirements to implement […]