Limon’s Redevelopment – Stalemate Between Union and Government
If you love historical redevelopment, it is so easy to see how Limon would be the perfect candidate, and at the same time become a world-class port bringing in billions to Costa Rica. Its shipyards...
View ArticleGovernment Seizes Sailfish Meat From Seafood Company
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. USA. – Costa Rican government officials released information to The Billfish Foundation (TBF) of the seizure from a seafood exporter, of over 7,000 kilos of sailfish meat bound for...
View ArticleOnline Poker Gambling Seizures – PokerStars, Full Tilt, Absolute Poker
Last Friday (at around 1:30 pm), I got a call from a private investigator in Costa Rica, who said the U.S. Government’s FBI just killed Costa Rica today! This is huge news! My friend continued with the...
View ArticleUranium Weapons Banned in Costa Rica – No Free Trade Zone
This week Costa Rica got a lot of world-wide attention with three hot news stories. A Costa Rican court sentenced former president Miguel Angel Rodriguez to five years in prison Wednesday after finding...
View ArticleIRS Goes After US Income Expats in Costa Rica
Once again the media hammered the public with the new IRS threat, that they are going after US expats that have failed to pay US income taxes! Back in February of 2011 the IRS announced a program for...
View ArticleCosta Rica’s Internet Future – IPv6, Competition and Fraud
The world’s most advance technology will have it 20th Birthday on Aug, 8th; thats when the “World Wide Web (www)” first gained a public face in 1991. CERN, which straddles the border between France...
View ArticleCosta Rica’s Unions Strikes – Benefits & Privatization
I don’t know if it is just me, but it seems like every time you turn around Costa Rica is having some sort of labor strike. Last Monday, about 2000 union workers of Instituto Costarricense de...
View ArticleHigher Traffic Fines, Tolls, Corporation Tax in Costa Rica
One again, as the New Year gets started, Costa Rican’s will find themselves paying more to the government. Ticos by nature are non-aggressive, but this time the government may experience what...
View ArticleCosta Rica’s Dry Law – Eliminate the Prohibition Ley Seca?
One of the things that Gringo's have always been puzzled on is Costa Rica' very old "dry law” (Ley Seca); a liberal law that prohibits sales of liquor, wine and beer at Easter and Christmas, besides...
View ArticleCosta Rica’s New Luxury Tax – Meat, Fruit and Floors Mops
I don't know what is going on with the government of Costa Rica and it seems like every day I/m feeling more sorry for the Ticos. Last January, the government hammered the people with higher traffic...
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