In order to address the structural issues of competitiveness of the productive system in the Central Pacific region and promote economic recovery and create decent employment, Government institutions, municipalities, academia and business sector signed on Friday March 8 the Pact for Productive Development and Competitive of the Central Pacific.
While Costa Rica is well known as one of the progenitors of eco-tourism, it is gaining notoriety for another tourist attraction: legalized prostitution. Thousands of visitors, mainly from North America, come to Costa Rica for lawful sex, without regard for the consequences among its victims. Many of those victims are children as young as 12,…
The Costa Rican Institute of Ports of the Pacific issued on Monday, October 1, purchase order No. 29852 for ¢ 1,089,889,967,351 to award the project “Complementary Works of El Muellero Park”, also known as the Pergolas Project. The Executive President of the Costa Rican Institute of Ports of the Pacific, Juan Ramón Rivera, explained that…
The World Surf League is the entity that organizes annual tours of professional surfing competitions. The original body of professional surfing, the International Professional Surfers, was founded in 1976 and led by Hawaiian surfers Fred Hemmings and Randy Rarick. The event will bring together some of the best professionals in the world of surfing, from…
In total, the sum of 1,600 million colones will be invested, resources that will be provided by the INCOP, ICT, Tourism Promotion Board, INCOPESCA, INA, IMAS and RECOPE. “The proposed strategy seeks to articulate a vision of tourism development to revitalize the local economy of Puntarenas in the short, medium and long term, articulating efforts…
In the Plaza del Pacífico, in the center of Puntarenas, Claudia Dobles First Lady of the Republic together with María Amalia Revelo who is the Minister of Tourism, announced on Wednesday the tourist campaign “Jale al Puerto”, which will start nationally in August . This is an ICT initiative in coordination with the Office of…
The bidding process for the construction of the new Monseñor Sanabria Hospital in Puntarenas began this week, when the five prequalified companies were invited to participate in the tender. The architect Gabriela Murillo Jenkins, Director of Infrastructure and Technology of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, emphasized that this is a very long technical process,…
El día sábado 2 de Diciembre del 2017 en el Malecón de Quepos se realizará la primera Feria de Emprendedores del cantón de Quepos. Esta fue una iniciativa que se hizo realidad gracias a las gestiones iniciales del emprendedor Cornelio Mesén principalmente, la valiosa colaboración de la Municipalidad de Quepos que aprobó el permiso,…
CCSS aprobó plan funcional de la nueva infraestructura y las empresas constructoras ya están precalificadas Autoridades de la Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) dieron el banderazo de salida para que se inicie el diseño del anteproyecto del nuevo hospital Monseñor Sanabria de Puntarenas. La decisión se adoptó al aprobarse, en forma definitiva, el Plan…