Archives for June 2019

On Thrusday morning, representatives of the Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge in Los Chiles found a live alligator with a harpoon embedded in its torso. José Duarte, park ranger told CRHoy.com that the animal was in the area of ​​the Playuelas lagoon, with severe injuries as a result of the harpoon and machete wounds. The officials […]

Costa Rica voted in favor of a $16.3 million loan granted by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) to finance Nicaraguan police operations. This was denounced on Thursday by legislator Pedro Muñoz, from the Christian Social Unity Party (PUSC), based on a note sent to him by the Central American Bank for Economic […]

The fiscal deficit of the country was at 2.62% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last May, which represents 0.4 percentage points more than last year. The payment of interest on loans that the country requested to finance is still the main problem of the public finances. Currently, this item represents 1.55% of GDP, while […]

New fathers who work for Cabletica will enjoy a Parental License that will allow them to share much more time with their families during the birth of their children. From now on, the male employees who work in the company will be able to enjoy a fully paid eight-week leave after becoming a father. This […]

The Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce (CCCR) believees the measures adopted by the Central Bank of Costa Rica with respect to the Legal Minimum Allowance (LME) in order to guarantee a boost in credit and a decrease of interest rates in the short term is insufficient, and therefore, its impact on the reactivation of the […]

The Ministry of Finance made a correction to a transition to the regulation of value added tax (VAT). This is a correction to the executive decree signed by the President and the Minister of Finance on Transitory VII of Executive Decree No. 41779-H. In it, the following was erroneously recorded: In the case of subcontractors, […]