The effects of K2, also known as “Spice” or “synthetic marijuana”, are 100 times more powerful than natural cannabis. Although it was known in Costa Rica, the first confiscation in the country was made on June 07th, in Purral de Goicoechea, where a 28-year-old man named González was carrying 3,9 grams of the drug. The […]
Archives for June 2016
INCAE: lack of transparency and efficiency challenges competitiveness
According to Víctor Umaña, CLACDS’ director from INCAE, Costa Rica has the resources to make progress in solving the competitiveness problems it has, such as infrastructure, poverty and bureaucracy, but it can’t due to a lack of management, efficiency and transparency.” This was part of his intervention in the political debate organized by the Costa […]
Solís asks immigrants not to come to Costa Rica
According to President Luis Guillermo Solís, immigrants should avoid Costa Rica because of its limited resources and inadequate conditions to take care of thousands of people. So far, Costa Rica has helped immigrants in the northern border with Nicaragua using the resources from the National Emergency Commission (CNE) and the Red Cross, which make sure […]
Costa Rica Proposes Tax on Worldwide Income
A frequent rumor in Costa Rica is that Americans living here have trees that produce a limitless supply of dollars. From the Costa Rica point of view the income in dollars is not fully transparent, given that Costa Rica does not tax or require reporting of income earned abroad. However, if the government of Luis […]
Up to 1% of workforce are subcontracted employees
Only 1 percent of private workers are employed as subcontracted, according to the 2015 companies national survey. There are 433,000 workers with contracts for an indefinite time, which represent 96 percent of the workforce. The remaining 3 percent have fixed-term contracts. Most positions offered in the form of subcontracts are jobs in private security, cleaning, systems […]
School lunch supplier suspended for selling horse meat
A supplier of the school lunch program was suspended after a study found it has been distributing horse meat to schools in Cartago. The supplier was suspended on May, 25th and the authorities are preparing other legal actions against the producer. According to the National Production Council (CNP), the provider met all the requirements to […]