Representatives from Banco Nacional, Banco Popular and Banco de Costa Costa Rica have said they will give account holders who failed to update their personal information a few days of grace before closing their accounts. Informational updates are required by Law 8204, and are designed to counter money laundering, terrorism and illegal activity. Original Article […]

Claro and Telefónica (Movistar in Costa Rica) have been awared contracts to develop broadband Internet for the Northern Zone. The contracts are financed by the National Fund for Telecommunications (Fonatel), which is financed by taxes on telephone lines, and has the goal of bringing infrastructure to less developed, rural parts of Costa Rica. The projects […]

Park ranger, Mesén Vinicio Lopez is celebrating the holidays in Costa Rica at a distance of 535 kilometers from the mainland at Cocos Island National Park. Mesén, who lives with his family at the park says he plans to remain on Cocos until retirement. He said that communications have improved with Internet access and telephones, […]

Second chamber of the constitutional court has upheld the decision to terminate the employment of an CCSS inspector who failed to require her husband to enroll and remit payroll taxes, for restaurant employees in their family business. The inspector, who had worked for the agency for 15 years, before her 2005 firing had won a […]

International attention for an open pit gold mine in Cutris de San Carlos has increased since an environmental group in Canada started an online petition, asking 300,000 people to register their opposition. The petition, which has reached over 290,000 respondents asks the Canadian owned firm, Industrias Infinito to drop its lawsuit in international arbitration, which […]

Police, operating mostly in border regions have confiscated 4,200 units of illegally imported liquor. Police emphasize that smuggling affects both the collection of taxes and creates a risk to public health as counterfeit products may not meet standards for quality and safety. Original Article in La Nacion