Archives for September 10, 2019

The Legislative Assembly will no longer finance buy food for legislators. This was announced on Monday night to CRHoy.com by Carlos Ricardo Benavides, president of Congress, which indicates that with the elimination of the food item, 25 million colones will be saved per year, about two million colones per month. The decision was made by […]

The Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) supports the approval of the credit between the government of Costa Rica and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for $350 million, as it believes it’s positive to complement the internal savings in financing National Development. The objective of these resources is to contribute to the consolidation of public […]

Albino Vargas, secretary general of the National Association of Public Employees (ANEP), called for the different trade union movements in the country to rise soon in a “great national strike.” According to the union leader, a national strike of between 24 and 48 hours must be proposed, with blockages on the main national routes, in […]

The officials of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) will be on strike this Tuesday starting at 9:00 am in front of the Central Offices of the Caja on Second Avenue. This was confirmed by the National Union of Employees of the Fund and Social Security (Undeca) in a Facebook post. Tomorrow the CCSS […]

The exchange reate continues to show volatility in the Monex wholesale market, after rising ¢16 in two weeks, these last days it fell. At the end of the session in the Monex wholesale market on Monday, the price of the dollar was ¢576.9, while on September 5th it stood at ¢ 581.3. On the other […]

According to the latest study by the Foreign Trade Promoter (Procomer) “Food Market in China”, meat, coffee, beer, water, baby formulas, as well as sauces and preparations are part of the national products that have the greatest potential to conquer the Chinese market. China is already an important destination for Costa Rican exports in Asia; […]