The manufacturing industry exported $645 million in January this year, which represented 74% of the exports of goods of the country. The growth in exports of the industry in the free zone in January was 17.4%, while outside the free zone it was only 2.1%. We are a sector that contributes three quarters of what […]
Archives for February 2019
The US calls for UN vote on Venezuela
The United States will vote on the UN Security Council on a draft resolution calling for “free, fair and credible” presidential elections in Venezuela, as well as free access for humanitarian aid to country, according to diplomats. The draft resolution also denounces the violence and excessive use of force by the Venezuelan security forces against […]
Italian arrested for sending drug mules to Europe
An Italian man surnamed Levice, 46, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of leading an international drug trafficking gang. Drug Control Police (PCD) officers raided some booths in Pan Dulce in Puerto Viejo, Talamanca, Limón, where they arrested the foreigner. Levice seems to be sending drugs to Europe, mainly Italy. He had no judicial record […]
Electric vehicles without restriction will have special spaces in parking lots
To encourage the purchase and use of electric vehicles and favor decarbonization plans, the government will remove electric vehicles from vehicular restriction and promote preferential parking spaces. The measures were announced on Wednesday by the first lady, Claudia Dobles, and Environment Minister Carlos Manuel Rodríguez. They also announced that electric vehicles will have, from this […]
President denies pressure from industries on projects linked to plastic
President Carlos Alvarado denied having received pressure from the country’s industrial sector to make the decision to withdraw two bills liked to the use of plastic from the Congress’ agenda of extraordinary sessions. After statements by the Christian Socialist Erwen Masís on these alleged pressures, Alvarado said the decision to remove the projects from the […]
Borders have new container identification and control system
The National Customs Service launched a new technology for the identification of containers in response to the strategy developed by the Ministry of Finance to improve the control mechanisms in containers. The project would be made up of two parts: installation and informing the institutions involved with the border control. It is expected that the […]