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TGI Friday’s Relaunches in Costa Rica With New Owners and Expansion Plans

Q BUSINESS - In a transaction whose amount was not disclosed, Costa Rica Grupo Inmobiliaria Genesis sold its international franchise for the restaurant chain TGI Friday's. The company that owns the franchise now is La 305 S.A., which has already...

San Jose Announced Plans For “Tech” Business Park

Q COSTA RICA - While the growth of business parks has been mainly to the west of San Jose, in areas like Heredia and Alajuela, the mayor of San Jose is betting that he can lure tech companies to...

Don’t Leave Home Without Plans For An Emergency

Q COSTA RICA TRAVEL (By Emily Sohn, Special to The Washington Post) One morning during a family trip to Costa Rica last winter, I paddled out to catch some waves while my 8-year-old took a surfing lesson close to...

How Maduro Plans to Stay in Power in Venezuela without Elections

TODAY VENEZUELA – Aporrea, a popular Chavista-oriented website, has published an article in which it details the dark future for the government of Nicolás Maduro. During the government of Hugo Chavez, Aporrea became the premiere digital medium of “chavismo”; it...

Popeyes & Dairy Queen Announce Costa Rica Expansion Plans For 2017

Q BUSINESS - Popeyes and Dairy Queen plans to open four new locations in 2017, the first two in the first half of the year. In the case of Popeyes, one of the new locations will be in Cartago, the...

Hacienda Plans To Rebate 1% Point of Sales Tax When Using Plastic

(QCOSTARICA) The Ministry of Finance (Ministerio de Hacienda) plans to return one percentage point of sales tax to people using their plastic for purchases. The plan, if adopted, would mean consumers using plastic would effectively pay a 12% sales tax...

Kolbi launches social network-focused plans

(QCOSTARICA) Costa Rica's state-owned operator ICE has launched a series of new prepay plans under its mobile brand Kolbi, complete with extra bundled data for social network use. The "En Todas" plans include a daily bundle with 50 MB of...

Telecable Plans To Bring Fibre Optics To Entire Country

QCOSTARICA - Costa Rica's Telecable Economico has announced the deployment of a hybrid fibre coaxial cable network using Docsis 3.0, with connection speeds of up to 100 Mbps, reports La Republica. The network will connect households and small businesses at...

Real Estate Developer Unveils Plans For The Country’s Tallest Building

QCOSTARICA - Real estate developer Omnia, made of up U.S. capital, announced plans to build a 41 storey tower in downtown San Jose. The 150 metre tall building, to be located on Paseo Colon, adjacent to the Torre Mercedes...

U.S. Plans Mass Deportations of Central American Immigrants

Q24N - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of undocumented Central American immigrant families, says The Washington Post. Early in 2016, the nationwide campaign is to...

AutoMercado Plans To Open Two Supermarkets A Year Between Now And 2024

QCOSTARICA - The AutoMercado supermarket chain announced plans to open on average, two new supermarkets a year between 2016 and 2014. Company president, Guillermo Alonso, added that the chain has four supermarkets in the process of development, but suffering great...

RECOPE Criticized For Millionaire Christmas Party Bash Plans

QCOSTARICA - Is it just good public relations or for serious, the call by RECOPE president, Sara Salazar, on Tuesday for a stop to the bidding for a ¢6.8 million colones Christmas party for employees of the state refinery...

QToons: Free Of The PLN Araya Plans To Catapult Himself Into His Old Job

Former San Jose mayor Johnny Araya, now free of the PLN, intends to catapult himself into his old job, one he held for more than two decades, leaving it to become the President he never did.

Uber Challenges MOPT, Plans To Operate in Costa Rica

QCOSTARICA - Is Uber looking for a fight in Costa Rica? It may appear so, given the most recent statement by company's director of communication of Uber Mexico and Central America, Luis de Uriarte: "We are a private service; it...

Costa Rica Government Plans To Raise More Money On The Local Market

(QCOSTARICA) In the second half of the year the Ministry of Finance (Ministerio de Hacienda) plans to raise on the local market US$1.8 billion dollars, 10% of what was raised in the same period in 2014. Without solving the underlying...

New Low-Cost Airline Plans To Operate From Costa Rica

(QCOSTARICA) Viva Latinoamérica says it will be expanding its operations in the region witht the opening of a low-cost airline operating from Costa Rica. VivaCam, (Viva Centroamerica) wich plans to generate some 200 jobs in the first year of operation...

Nicaragua Plans to Produce High-Quality Calves

(TODAY NICARAGUA) A pilot project aims to provide funding and technical assistance to a group of food producers in order to improve their livestock and increase quality. The purpose of the project, still in its test phase, is for farmers...

ICE Mobile Plans Offer Top Value to Costa Rica Consumers

QCOSTARICA (Press Release) -Tarifica, a leading telecommunications pricing research firm, has announced the latest Tarifica Score™ measure of consumer value for postpaid (subscription) mobile plans in Costa Rica. Tarifica applies its “Top Value Plan” designation to the highest scoring plan...

ICT Plans Start Of Construction of the Convention Center This Year

QCOSTARICA - After several failed attempts, the Costa Rica Tourism Board (Instituto Costarricense de Turismo - ICT) announced the pre-selection of eleven construction companies expected to bid of the project, valued at US$30 million, that will start in the...

QToons: Costa Rica’s Foreign Ministry Concerne Over Nicaragua’s Plans To Acquire More Military Equipment

Caption: Nicaraguan President asking "like my new toys?"

Government Plans To Create 15% VAT On Goods and Services

QCOSTARICA - The government on Tuesday proposed transforming the current sales tax of 13% to a Value Added Tax (VAT), levied both on goods and services, at a rate of 15%. The proposal by the Ministry of Finance (Ministerio de...

Half the Country Lacks Cadastral Plans

QCOSTARICA - For 50% of the properties that make up the country there are no exact measurements and boundaries are not validated by the national cadastre system. Out of 478 districts in the country, only 32 have catastral plans and...

Nosara Forum Plans to Combat Dust with Molasses Project

QCOSTA RICA (By Roberto Acuña Ávalos, Vozdeguanacaste) An initiative of the Nosara Leadership Forum could counteract the high amounts of dust affecting residents of the district due to bad road conditions. The project was presented on Saturday, November 16th by...

QToons: President Solís Plans To Meet Oscar Arias To Discuss Tax Issues

Plans for Ciclovía (Bike Path) in San José Still A Only A Dream!

COSTA RICA JOURNAL -- The project to build a ciclovía (bike path) in San José, is designed, planned and even mapped out for the last five years by the Asociación de Deportistas Contra la Violencia Vial y el Irrespeto...

Bolivia Plans to Tax Coca Production

LATIN AMERICA NEWS -- Coca growers in Bolivia have expressed support for the government's plan to tax the production of coca leaves, but the measure could potentially end up pushing more coca into the illegal drug market, where growers...

Costa Rica Concerned Over Nicaragua’s Plans To Renew Its Military Arms

COSTA RICA NEWS - Chancellor Manuel González expressed concern Thursday over the interest of the Nicaraguan army to renew its arms. "While it is a decision of each country how to invest their money, as part of the region and...

Nicaragua Steps Up Dredging Plans of San Juan River

COSTA RICA NEWS - Friday monring, President Luis Guillermo Solis announced his intentions to notify the International Court of Justice at the Hague (ICJ) of Nicaragua's plan to increase the number of dredges in Rio San Juan from four...

Government Pushes Back to 2017 Plans To Raise Taxes

COSTA RICA NEWS - (Bloomberg) - Costa Rica will delay plans to raise taxes by a year until 2017 as President Luis Guillermo Solis struggles to win support for measures to narrow a widening fiscal deficit, the head of...

President Solís Says No Plans For Corruption Probe of Chinchilla Administration

COSTA RICA NEWS - President Luis Guillermo Solís says he will tell the nation all he has discovered about the former administration in his first 100 days in office report and for now has no plans to open a...

President Solís Plans To “Unshackle” Costa Rica’s Dependence On U.S.

The administration of Luis Guillermo Solís is expected to turn away from a long-standing U.S.-centric foreign policy towards stronger relations with Brazil and Latin American countries, according to an International Business Times (IBT) report. The IBT says that, Solís has...

Lawyer Says Government Plans to Build Mega City and Port on the Golf of Nicoya

By Wilberth Villalobos Castrillo, Vozdeguanacaste.com - Community development or mega ports and cities. These are the two options that, according to the lawyer Wilmar Matarrita, are being weighed for the country’s coastal areas. Matarrita, a Nicoya lawyer and one of...

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