On Thursday, he Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) reported that Foreign direct investment (FDI) to Central America grew 3.7% during 2016 and totaled $ 11.833 million. The increase in investments to the two main recipients of the subregion -Panama, which concentrated 44%, and Costa Rica, with 27% – offset the drop recorded by the […]

In the first half of 2017, the Ministry of Finance placed debt at ¢ 1.16 trillion, 22% more than announced in January (¢ 950 billion). 51% was placed in installments for more than 10 years. The government’s total debt to June 2017 exceeded ¢15 billion. This means that debt grew by 7% between December and […]

The executive president of the National Institute of Learning (INA), Minor Rodríguez, will have to be accountable to the legislators for the millionaire expenses in foreign trips for officials of the entity. The Committee on Control of Income and Public Expenditure of the Legislative Assembly decided to summon Rodríguez, members of the Board of Directors […]

In just two days, 44 domestic employees were insured by their employers through the platform of the Centralized Collection System (Sicere). Gustavo Picado, financial manager of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), said that employers exceeded expectations and even had many inquiries both in person and on the online platforms that the institution put […]

This Saturday, the National Assembly of Christian Democratic Alliance (ADC) will ratify the presidential candidacy of legislator Mario Redondo for the elections of February 2018. Redondo said the announcement of his proposal will be made at 3 p.m. in the auditorium of the Bar Association and that about 200 people from all over the country […]

Wálter Espinoza, director of the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ), said that the victims of “Matapobres” (the poor-killer) in Desamparados were locked in a cement tomb inside his house. The OIJ managed to raid the house on Thursday at 2 p.m. and found four men and a woman “in a kind of cement tomb that was […]