On December 9th, residents from Quepos, Puntarenas and Manuel Antonio will welcome Christmas when a total of 15 boats, decorated with lights and Christmas motifs, illuminate around Marina Pez Vela. It is the third edition of the Bright Light Boat Parade, a parade-contest in which besides showing to the audience your boat with Christmas songs, […]
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Treasury places new type of domestic debt bond
As part of the Internal Indebtedness Plan for the second half of the year, the Ministry of Finance auctioned a new title called Adjustable Sovereign Real Property Title (TPRAS), whose main feature is the indexation of coupons to the net yields of the Sovereign Curve calculated by the Central Bank of Costa Rica. According to […]
San Juan de Dios Hospital’s emergency service improved after the transfer of some Patients
The transfer of several patients from San Juan de Dios Hospital to other care centers, allowed the emergency service to work better the past weekend. From the previous week the service was collapsed again with more than 81 patients who had to wait in the service due to a lack of beds to hospitalize them. […]
Costa Rica’s legislative transparency ranks first in Latin America
Costa Rica ranks first in the transparency indexes regarding the work of the Congress, the good use of its budget and its administrative management among 13 countries in Latin America, according to a study by the Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency. The study places Costa Rica with 78% in the work of its Congress […]
According to new survey, Solís and Figueres are seen as strong political leaders
A new survey published by the firm CID Gallup assures that Jose María Figueres and Ottón Solís are the two figures with better-perceived political leadership. The study, conducted between November 7th and 16th, consulted 1202 people. When asked who should win the 2018 elections and become the next president, 13% replied that Jose María Figueres, […]
Epsy Campbell: “condemning the PAC is a wake-up call”
Legislator Epsy Campbell from Acción Ciudadana Party (PAC), stated that condemning the political group before the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) for the crime of major fraud is a “wake-up call”. The legislator said that the party accepted the sentence with responsibility, but she added: we are certain that the convicted people were not interested in […]