Tourism lead services exports in the second quarter of 2016, recording 48.4% of total services exports. Therefore, this activity has become the biggest contributor to the recovery in the growth rate of exports in the first half of 2016, compared with the same period last year. Such information appears from the quarterly analysis of the […]
Legislator fears biofuels project is put away
Legislator Javier Cambronero, from the Citizen Action Party, fears that the Environment Commission of the Legislative Assembly puts away the bill that would help replace the use of fossil fuels, reduce greenhouse gases and revive the agricultural sector. On Thursday, the legislator announced that he would ask that the file is transferred from the legislative […]
19 months without ambassador in Venezuela
The government has one year and seven months without appointing an ambassador to the government of Venezuela, despite the political, social and economic crisis in the South American country. The press office of Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the country has no ambassador in Caracas. Ana Patricia Villalobos is the one responsible for the […]
Low inflation and subsidies took 10,000 households out of poverty last year
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC), based on the National Household Survey (ENAHO) 2016, in the last year, about 10,400 households went out of poverty. From this group, 9,708 households were in extreme poverty. The decrease in the number of poor households nationwide is explained mainly by a relative increase in […]
Dead birds and illegal dam in protected area
The National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) discovered dead birds, as a result of the construction of an illegal dam in the South Zone. The discovery was made by officials of the National Wetland Térraba Sierpe, after a follow up of an environmental complaint for illegal dredging in the area of Los Zacarianos. Officials checked […]
Guidelines for more sustainable construction
The Costa Rican Chamber of Construction, the Costa Rica Institute of Technology Regional Program and the German technical cooperation agency GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), through its Platform for Cooperation in Latin America North (COPLAN) gave everyone involved in the value chain of the industry the Guidelines for Sustainable Construction and Efficient Management and […]