Archives for August 2018

With five votes in favor and four against, the legislators of the Special Commission of Fiscal Reform received the substitute text presented by the government of for the bill of strengthening of public finances, or fiscal reform. Before reaching that point, the legislators studied 873 motions during two sessions. Now the bill will go through […]

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake occurred northeast of Santa María de Dota in San José, at 5:52 on Tuesday afternoon. According to the OVSICORI-UNA the tremor had a depth of 5 km. The sectors near the epicenter were: South of Tejar, El Guarco, Cartago, and Southwest of Paraíso, in Cartago. crhoy.com

The regular budget for 2019 would imply a minimum increase of around 10% compared to this year’s, warned Rocío Aguilar, Minister of Finance. The hierarch explained that the increase is due to the gap in the 2018 budget, which is now being covered with extraordinary budgets. Given that during 2018 about ₡ 800 billion in […]

Once again the government is working to solve wastewater problems and discharges in an area of the Manuel Antonio National Park. Last week, the Ministry of Health alerted the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) about the situation in Playa 3 (Manuel Antonio beach). Even the Health Ministry issued a sanitary order and ordered the […]

The Government met with one of the most visible faces and the most active voices of the Nicaraguan opposition, Juan Sebastián Chamorro, member of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy (ACJD), who was recently in Costa Rica. Last week, he spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Epsy Campbell, focusing the meeting on the […]

The Ministry of Finance ensures that the taxes for private health proposed in the bill on tax reform will be returned to the consumer. Nogui Acosta, deputy minister of the portfolio, reacted to an article published by CRHoy.com exposing the increase of taxes with the Government’s proposals. Costa Ricans will have to pay about two […]