Liberia welcomes first transatlantic flight May 15th, 2007. First Choice offers weekly nonstop flight from London. (CANews) — For the first time in its history, the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia received a nonstop flight from the other side of the Atlantic read more ...
First presidential report Arias highlights stability, trust and growth May 9th, 2007. The report detailed work conducted in eight strategic sectors: the fight against poverty and inequality; changes to the educational system; the integration of Costa Rica to the world economy; the fight against crime and drugs; the effort to organize state priorities; the recovery of infrastructure; foreign policy; and the fight against corruption. read more ...
Costa Ricans in Favour of TLCMay 11, 2007
Many Costa Ricans support the signing of the Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) - free trade agreement with the United States, according to a poll by CID-Gallup. read more ...
Labor Minister Inks Deal on Coast Jobs, Training April 20, 2007. Guanacaste needs to prepare for an estimated 70,000 new jobs all to be created in the next three years, the Minister for Labor, Francisco Morales, said this week. read more ...
GSM Cellular Lines On Sale This Week
The Instituto Costarricence de Electricidad (ICE) - the state telecom monopoly - announced yesterday that it will have available some 40.000 GSM cellular lines this week. read more ...
San José Airport Will Soon Have A Bigger Immigration Area
April 15, 2007
Visitors to the Juan Santamaría (San José) airport will soon have a new immigration lounge that is bigger and can handle more traffic, reducing the long lines that sometimes wears thin the patience of arriving visitors and nationals alike. read more ...
Trasport Officilas Gear to Lease Liberia AirportMarch 25, 2007. Transport officials estimate that 1.3 million air passengers will pass through Liberia's Daniel Oduber airport by 2020, nearly four times the number that did so in 2006. So they will be seeking a private contractor to run the airport and provide a financial investment read more ...
US Company Inks Big Wireless Contract With ICE March 23, 2007. In the latest step in Costa Rica’s march towards higher technology, the State-run energy giant ICE has awarded a multi-national wireless network provider a contract to create more than 100 wireless internet regions throughout the country read more ...
Arias asks Gates to support education in Costa RicaApril 2, 2007 Cartagena, Colombia — During a meeting of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) last week, President Oscar Arias asked Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates for support in fortifying an educational computer science program in Costa Rica. read more ...
ICE purchases 22 wind turbines in TilaránThe Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) recently bought 22 wind turbines from Dutch company N.V. Edon Groep in order to maintain the Centro de Producción Tejona wind plant, located on the Montecristo mountain range in Tilarán, Guanacaste. read more ...
Arias Off to Mexico To Discuss Central American Integration
Mexican president Felipe Calderón will meet with presidents of Central America and Colombia today to discuss and evaluate a plan that aims to integrate the region´s economy through infrastructure and energy projects read more ...
Five Companies Wants to Re-model Airport March 16, 2007. At least five international consortiums have said they are interested in a $13 million concession to build and operate a new passenger terminal at Liberia’s Daniel Oduber international airport. read more ...
Bidding on 2nd Phase of Works for Pacific Corridor Due 2008 March 22, 2007. Bidding for the second phase of works to lay asphalt along Costa Rica's section of the so-called Pacific corridor will be held in 2008, Plan Puebla-Panamá (PPP) regional technical coordinator Annía Beleyda told BNamericas read more ...
ICE Purchases 300.000 New GSM LinesStill waiting for a GSM cellular line? According to the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), the wait could be over soon, as the institution announced the purchase of some 300.000 lines to fill the demand, if only temporarily. read more ...
Spirit Airlines Gets Permission For Service To Costa RicaMarch 22, 2007. For those who bought tickets on Spirit Airlines, there is good news, the Consejo Técnico de Aviación Civil (CTAC) approved the airlines' application for service to San José. The first flights will begin next month. read more ...
Call for Bids on Liberia Airport Expansion Pushed Into AprilMarch 22, 2007 The Costa Rica's public transport ministry - Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT) - has postponed until April the call for bids on a US$16 million dollar contract to add a 15,000 square metres terminal to Guanacaste's Daniel Oduber International airport in Liberia.
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Arias Said He Will Meet With Bill Gates Later This Month March 9, 2007 Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, announced yesterday that while he will be in Cartagena, Colombia, later this month he will meet with Microsoft founder, Bill Gates and Colombian president, Alvaro Uribe. read more ...
832 KM Of Roads To be RepairedMarch 3, 2007 A major part of the "red vial nacional" - national road network - will soon be pothole free, as the Consejo Nacional de Vialidad (Conavi), will be focuing its attention to 852 kilometres of road that in bad to poor condition.
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Local Meets Central Governmentt with Guanacaste PlanMarch 2, 2007 Friday’s encerrona, or lock-up meeting which brought together many of President Óscar Arias’ cabinet, including the Minister of the Presidency Rodrigo Arias, the Ministers of Tourism, Public Works and Transport, Health, Housing, and Security reflected a clear message from the central government.
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Government revenues improveFebruary 26, 2007 Regarding finances, the Government of Costa Rica started on the right foot this year. In January, the taxes collected were 43% more than in the same month last year. read more ...
Calling abroad may be cheaper by the end of the yearFebruary 27, 2007 Calling the United States, Canada and other countries could soon be a lot cheaper, thanks to plans by the National Electricity Institute (ICE) to reduce international call rates. read more ...
ICE announces an upgrade of fiber optic serviceFebruary 27, 2007
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad says it will install a $59 million upgrade to its broad band Internet service within a year. read more ...
Government announces new Guanacaste tourism projectsFebruary 27, 2007 The Ministry of Transportation and Public Infrastructure (MOPT) and the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) have announced a plan to invest $577,000 read more ...
Faster Approvals For U.S. Visa February 23, 2007 The U.S. consulate in Costa Rica has "modernized" the application process for those interested in obtaining a visa to the United States. read more ...
New Pacific highway route has potential start dateFebruary 27, 2007 The long awaited construction of the San Jose-Caldera highway, a road that will provide a shorter route between San Jose and the central Pacific, seems to have an April construction date on the horizon. read more ...
ICE Begins Bid Process For New Cellular NetworkFebruary 17, 2007
Costa Rica will soon have a new cellular network, a new network in addition to the existing two - TDMA and GSM. The new network is called "3G" and could be available read more ...
Arias promotes his concept of a Limón megaport in a visit thereJanuary 20, 2007 President Óscar Arias Sánchez promoted his $300 million megaport during a visit to Limón Thursday.
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President Oscar Arias Announces Incentives to Tourism Investors“Our priority must be to channel all our efforts to transform the ICT (Instituto Costarricense de Turismo) into a dynamic institution, aware of its mission as the industry’s voice, and transforming itself into the regulating entity in all that affects the tourism sector,” the President told about 300 professionals at the official opening of the industry trade show, Expotur.
Government Looks to Offer Concessions for Development of 2 PortsCosta Rica's government is planning to concession a new us$500 million terminal as well as port services at the existing Limón and Moín terminals on the Caribbean coast, the local financial newspaper, Capital Financiero, quoted institutional coordination minister Marco Vargas as saying.
The decision comes after studies were carried out at both ports and after government officials received advice from the World Bank (WB) on seeking infrastructure development through private investment. read more ...
Borrowing Big Only Way to Go, Says MOPT HeadThe Costa Rican government is negotiating with a number of banks to borrow about $100 million, all of which will be spent on roadwork and associated infrastructure, the Minister of Public Works and Transport confirmed this week.
Karla González Carvajal, on her first official tour of Guanacaste, would give few other details on the funding, other than to say the government, through President Arias, was looking into a type of fideicomiso, or trust fund by which the money would be paid back through future gains or income, probably gasoline taxes. read more ...
Government Finalizing Key Norms Required for LiberalizationCosta Rica's government is in the final stages of updating the five most important norms due to be changed in compliance with a new telecoms law, local daily Capital Financiero reported.
The norms in question are among 19 regulations that must be updated no later than six months after ratification of the new telecoms law. read more ...
President authorizes ICE to take on us$435 Million in debtCosta Rica's President Óscar Arias has signed a decree authorizing state power and telecom group ICE to take on up to us$435 million dollars in debt, the presidential website reported.
Arias' decree exempts ICE from having to request authorization from internal and external financing and investment authority Conafin to develop projects, the report said. read more ...
US $170 Million To Fix RoadsThe Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica (BCIE) has agreed to hand over the Consejo Nacional de Vialidad (CONAVI) us$170 million dollars for the repair, reconstruction and maintenance of the country's road network.
The agreement was signed by the BCIE and CONAVI at Casa Presidencial yesterday. read more ...
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