The real cost of borrowing money with credit cards in Costa Rica runs about 40 to 50 percent for the majority of cardholders. Despite the seemingly usurious interest rates, the use of credit cards in our country, which is besieged by rising inflation and looming unemployment, has grown about 7.3 percent since last year. According to a news report filed by Fabio Parreaguirre of business news daily La Republica, 72 percent of credit cards issued in Costa Rica have real interest rates higher than 40 percent, and quite a few boast a 50 percent cost of lending. To this effect,…
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Costa Rica News - (March 24th Radio Show) – Overseas Radio Has Teamed up With The Costa Rican Times to provide multiple modes of information sharing for local and foreign expats in order to get Costa Rica news and knowledge to listeners. This Week in Costa Rica will feature each week a news portion in which Dan…
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Buenos Aires, Mar 23 (EFE).- Just four years after giving up a job developing financial apps to enter the world of games, Argentine computer engineer Maximo Cavazzani has seen his Preguntados/Trivia Crack become the world’s fourth-most-downloaded app, with 125 million users. To create “something that everyone would be able to do” was his guiding principle, he told Efe in an interview. “What inspired me was the idea that people like games, but they are badly done,” he said. Besides giving players the chance to compete with each other answering questions, Preguntados generates new content to be submitted for participants’ approval….
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(PRWEB) March 23, 2015 – Waterfall Villas Wellness Retreat is located in the Baru Rainforest of Costa Rica’s South Pacific region. If interested in a good travel deal this month, enjoy Waterfall Villas’ Easter Week Special, including 7 nights at this spectacular resort. Join for adventure, romance, detox, yoga and waterfalls during the most significant and celebrated holiday weeks in Costa Rica – Semana Santa, Costa Rica’s momentous Easter Week. The Easter Week Special runs all month long in April at the Waterfall Villas Wellness Retreat, and includes accommodations for two in a suite with a balcony overlooking one of…
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Costa Rica Real Estate – Each week the Costa Rican Times will be presenting a property of the week that we consider a hidden gem. If you want more information about this property or buying real estate in general you can request the free e-book, “Secrets of Buying Real Estate in Costa Rica” This weeks…
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Costa Rica Entertainment – For all those that were able to attend Jungle Jam over the past weekend in Jaco, they experienced a great festival and incredible music. As it has in the past Doce Lunas provided the perfect venue for the musical artists to show their talents. The headlining groups performing were Thievery…
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High in the mountains that surround the agricultural canton of Naranjo, in the province of Alajuela, there’s a special type of resort that welcomes open-minded guests in Costa Rica whose sexual predilections include engaging with multiple partners, watching others perform erotic acts, and allowing their partners to do the same. According to a couple of lengthy reports filed by Yuri Lorena Jimenez for the Sunday Magazine of national newspaper La Nacion, the High Dreams Hotel and Spa in the bucolic community of Rosario is an adult playground like no other in Costa Rica. The High Dreams property is a complex…
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Costa Rica Entertainment News – This weekend is one of my favorites on the Central Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Amazing bands bring their unique sounds to Jaco to please all those that attend Jungle Jam. Jungle Jam is shaking Jacó from today to Sunday at Docelunas Hotel. These four days have been well anticipated…
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Costa Rica News – The MOPT promises that the ferry service between Puntarenas and Naranjo Beach will be rehabilitated before Holy Week begins. Easter is a time when many people travel, so this is great news. Since Monday, they’ve been building a provisional dock that is expected to be completely ready in just two weeks,…
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Costa Rica News – I would bet that Disick is not sitting on or near Jaco beach right now unless he plans on picking up a few Imperial beers on the Pacific coast if the land of “Pura Vida”. The last place I see someone becoming sober is Costa Rica but perhaps he will be…
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