Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - The Consejo Nacional de Salarios (National Wages Council) confirmed the government's proposal that the wage adjustment for private sector employees, for the first half of 2016,  will be 0.67% that will take effect on January 1. In real terms, the raise is ¢670 colones per ¢100,000 colones of...

(AP) - For most people, 10 countries in a little over six weeks sounds like a dream vacation. But it was anything but that for Esperanza Sosa Valdes and Ariel Del Sol Pérez, Cuban natives now living in Hastings, Nebraska. The couple navigated, negotiated, perspired and bribed their way along...

TICO BULL - On Friday, the Pepsi corporation admitted that its Aquafina bottled water is not purified water or spring water, but simply plain old tap water. The company will now be forced to change the labeling of the brand to reflect that it is just tap water. Are brands...