For the second consecutive year, the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE), will launch its virtual job fair www.joblink.cr. More than 30 multinational leading companies combining services and manufacturing sectors, will offer 2,500 job positions for this second semester. The main requirement is to be bilingual. JobLink’s second edition will be available 24/7 from Monday July 29th un...

Cruise ship visitors arriving in Limón will soon enjoy a new experience when they debark at the Hernán Garrón Salazar port terminal, which welcomes the 193,000 cruise ship passengers who come to the Costa Rican Caribbean each year. “We want to take their breath away right from the first glance, so that they will go on to fall in love with the flavor, natural surroundings, music, culture and bea...

Costa Rica is home to seven of the best resorts in the world, distributed in the Pacific coast and in La Fortuna de San Carlos, according to Forbes magazine: Forbes Travel Guide - 2019 Star Award Winners These are the seven resorts listed by Forbes as being among the world’s best: Four Seasons Costa Rica at Península Papagayo: The spa is a destination in itself, with a volcanic purification ...

President Carlos Alvarado, alongside the Minister for Environment and Energy, Carlos Manuel Rodríguez and the Minister of Health, Daniel Salas, signed into law the reform of the Law for the Integral Management of Waste. This Law enacts the prohibition of the import into national territory, the commercialization and the delivery of polyethylene containers, better known as styrofoam, in any commerci...

Mexican company Mexifrutas S.A. of C.V. announced that it will open a modern fruit pulp processing plant in Siquirres, Limón, through its Costa Rican subsidiary Inversiones Corymex MCR, S.A, with an investment of $20 million dollars. In its first stage, this investment will generate direct and formal employment for more than 130 people living outside the Greater Metropolitan Area (GMA). The ...

US Embassy in Costa RIca Alerts: On Monday, July 1, 2019, the U.S. Embassy received credible open source information that student protestors and trade unions will continue to protest against government politics with a new focus on the resignation of Finance Minister Rocio Aguilar. In addition to these demonstrations, protestors continue to block main roadways throughout the country, reportedly to ...

The multinational company Boston Scientific Corporation, dedicated to the design, manufacturing, distribution and sale of minimally invasive medical devices of the highest technology, announced that it plans to hire approximately 600 new employees in the upcoming months who will join the 4,200 collaborators that currently work in its operations, making it the largest employer in Costa Rica’s medic...

Today, Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced the creation of 2,000 job openings. These positions will be based in Amazon’s dedicated centers in Costa Rica and will include specialist roles in areas such as customer service, technology, cloud services, finance and accounting. These specialist roles will support Amazon’s customers around the world and provide 24/7 world class customer servi...

Costa Rica stands out in the latest edition of The European, a renown international magazine that reviews topics such as business, foreign direct investment, finances, technology, among others. Costa Rica: The Natural Choice of Business, is the article's title, which highlights the country’s success formula to attract FDI and how it fosters world-class innovation. "Comparatively, Costa Rica ...

Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas is a renown operator of luxury hotels, resorts and spas, managing 19 hotels and resorts across 14 countries, plus 37 spas under the brand names Six Senses, Evason, Six Senses Spas and Raison d’Etre; since February 2019, Six Senses became part of the IHG® (InterContinental Hotels Group) family of hotel brands. Six Senses will be opening its first resort in Central Ame...

Equifax, a global data, analytics, and technology company announced today that it will hire 200 people in the upcoming weeks to become part of its 1,000-collaborator workforce. “Equifax is undergoing the largest transformation of its recent history,” said Jairo Quiros, Vice President of Global Shared Services. “We are leveraging our Costa Rica Shared Services talent to enable the company to dri...

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications announced that Costa Rica will host the biggest human rights event in the digital era, RightsCon 2020. The announcement was made at the end of the RightsCon 2019 which took place in Tunisia with 2500 participants from 130 countries. “Back in October we presented the Digital Transformation Strategy towards the Costa Rica of the Bice...

Bayer’s Shared Services Center started operations in Costa Rica two years ago. Today, the company announced that it will duplicate its payroll to 500 employees by the end of this year. Currently, the center has 285 collaborators in three offices located at America Free Zone, in San Francisco de Heredia. The expansion will be in three departments: Order to Cash, Source to Pay and HR Operations....

Tamarindo is setting out to be a regulated, authentic tourist destination, with sustainable practices, community participation, and a diversity of products primarily geared towards family entertainment. Local Tamarindo stakeholders have established three priority projects to be completed within a period of five years. The projects are focused on the integrated management of solid waste and sewa...

Paradise Ingredients, known for its processed juices and beverages in the food industry, opened today its new plant of juices and drinks NEWVANA. Paradise Ingredients is the world’s top banana puree processing company. With this new aseptic juice processing operation, it will create 120 jobs in Cartago. The Minister of Foreign Trade, Dyalá Jiménez, said: “The country’s development requires...

Concentrix, a technology-enabled global business services company specializing in customer engagement, announced today 600 new job positions in the country. This is part of a growth strategy the company is deploying to become stronger in Costa Rica and to establish itself as a specialty high value solutions center. “Our world is demanding changes in the way we make business; this forces compani...

Leading software company Wind River expanded its operations with the opening of a new office in Oficentro Mediterraneo in San José, Costa Rica. It has more than 40 collaborators working in customer support, engineering, finance, and tech support. “Wind River’s decision to open an office in Costa Rica was based on its great economic climate and nascent technology sector; it’s also a place where...

The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) announced that NTT DATA, Inc. opened a center of excellence in Costa Rica to serve its Salesforce portfolio. The company, located in America Free Zone industrial park, has been certified as a Platinum Salesforce Partner with more than 15 years of partnership with Salesforce. NTT DATA, a leading IT services provider, currently has a dozen Sales...

Costa Rica is hosting the Central American Cruise Conference for the first time from May 22 through May 24. The biannual event, organized by the Florida and Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA), has the participation of 250 cruise industry professionals and 16 executives from the world’s leading cruise lines. This is 5th edition, of this event meant promote a better understanding of the work of ...

This past Wednesday taxi drivers protested on the streets once again demanding sanctions against Uber and actions against this company and the drivers that work for it. Traffic police carried out operations at the Juan Santamaria Airport against Uber drivers also in response to protest by airport taxi drivers. Now the U.S. Embassy has received credible information that individual Uber driver...

Sachs Chemical, Inc. chose Costa Rica to become its distribution center in Central America with an investment over US$2,7 billion. Recognized as a leading chemical distributor serving the Puerto Rico and Caribbean markets, Sachs Chemical was founded in 1986, the company now has two operation plants of 8,400 square meters in Caguas and Carolina, in Puerto Rico. In Costa Rica, it currently has ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that Costa Rica does not comply with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety standards and has been assigned a Category 2 rating based on a reassessment of the country’s civil aviation authority. A Category 2 International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) rating means the country either lack...

Midland Credit Management (MCM), a subsidiary of U.S.-based Encore Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECPG), inaugurated new offices in Costa Rica on Monday, May 13. The company will move its operations to the former Yaohan building near the Technological City of San José, Costa Rica. MCM arrived in Costa Rica in 2012 after an extensive site search across Latin America. The team began with 15 people ...

The DCILab of the Electronic Engineering School at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (TEC by its Spanish acronym), has created the first RISC, 32-bit microcontroller completely designed and developed in Costa Rica, for a microcircuit with medical applications. A microcontroller is a microprocessor which, in addition to its processing units, has input-output interfaces and dedicated unit...

Located adjacent to The Retreat Costa Rica on Crystal Mountain and overlooking a tropical organic coffee plantation with Pacific Ocean views, the opening of a new 7,000 square foot Vida Mia Ayurvedic Healing Center and Spa is set to open proudly on Saturday, June 8, 2019. This will be the debut of the first Ayurvedic healing center in Costa Rica and will include a healer from Kerala, India special...

Embassy San Jose announced the upcoming Consular outeach for U.S. citizens in Puerto Viejo, Limón. The Consular staff will be on hand to provide routine services and answer any questions. To RSVP for passport renewals, notary services, and federal benefits inquiries, you must indicate your preference by writing to [email protected]. Any applicable fees must be paid in cash. No checks or doll...

With over 230 international purchasers, Expotur 2019 will kick off on May 9 in the Costa Rica Convention Center. These delegates represent companies from 35 different countries, where they will be promoting Costa Rica as a destination. The increasing flow of tourists to Costa Rica as well as the convenient visa process and existing air connections are determining factors for the committee that ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific celebrated the opening of its new distribution center in Coyol Free Zone, Alajuela, Costa Rica. This is the company’s third expansion in the country in the past 7 years. The new 15,000 square feet building has increased height which expands capacity by 52%. The additional space will be used to stock laboratory supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for cleanro...

Two individuals from Costa Rica were sentenced to 25 and 20 years in prison this Tuesday, April 30, for their roles in a $10 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the United States from call centers in Costa Rica. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray of the Western Distric...

Air Canada airlines announced it will increase its flights to Costa Rica by extending the 2019 season into September and October. The season, which is beginning this month, was initially to be put on hold for these two months and resumed in November and December. However, the company decided to fly from April to December without interruptions. During these two additional months, Air Canada will fl...

A mobile app to monitor waves and tides, an agreement to hire lifeguards, and a digital advertising campaign are part of the first stage of the strategy announced by the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) to prevent drownings on beaches. The app "MIOCIMAR" (available in Play Store for Android or App Store for iOS) in English and Spanish contains seven-day forecasts of surf currents, wave forecasts...

The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE - Coalición Costarricense de Iniciativas de Desarrollo) has received the highest award given for attracting the best investment project to Latin America, against the backdrop of AIM Dubai 2019, the Annual Investment Meeting held in Dubai. The investment project is the recently inaugurated IBM Cybersecurity Center, which has allowed for a threef...

The Government of Costa Rica presented its plan “Route of Reactivation of San Lucas Island”, with the objective of generating a tourism destination that potentiates the cultural, historic and natural advantages that this site offers. San Lucas Island is located off the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica, 5.4 miles from Puntarenas, and has an area of less than 500 hectares. This island is famous in C...

Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica (April 5, 2019)                                            Crazy Jungle Love, the shocking tale of love and despair based on the true story of American millionaire John Felix Bender’s exploits in the jungles of Costa Rica, is now available on Amazon and Kindle. Written by journalist Carol Blair Vaughn, Crazy Jungle Love makes use of Vaughn’s intimate knowledge of La...

IBM, at an official event featuring the participation of the Government of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE), announced the expansion of its Global Security Services Center, located at Heredia in the America Free Zone, from which it monitors security events for hundreds of clients in more than 130 countries. The expansion triples its operating capacity and will ...

New York-headquartered WeWork announces the opening of operations in Costa Rica and is expected to be operational by the end of 2019. The company, with over 101 locations globally, aims to transform the local business while leveraging Costa Rica as a gateway to the Central American region. Valued at over US$47 billion in 2018 and considered the second most valuable startup in USA, WeWork transf...

The Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) will include in its budget for 2020. 2021 and 2022, $500,000 USD each year, with the purpose of setting up a .lifeguard project in several of the most dangerous beaches in the country, the project is an strategic alliance with the Red Cross and the Firefighting Department. Additionally, the Board of Directors of ICT approved and agreement with the Costa Rican...

Costa Rican ports have received 203 vessels to date during the 2018-2019 cruise ship season, which began last year on August 23 with the arrival of the Sea Princess out of Key West, United States, and her 1,870 passengers to JAPDEVA’s Hernán Garrón Salazar terminal in Limón. In the next four months, another 46 boats are expected to set in to the five main ports in the country: Limón, Caldera, Q...

Attracting Costa Ricans and visitors to stay in Sarapiquí and Turrialba to enjoy their numerous tourist attractions and stay overnight in these destinations rather than simply traveling through them—this is the objective of the six projects negotiated between the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) and local actors of Sarapiquí, Turrialba and Jiménez as part of the Comprehensive Management of Tourist ...

The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) will be forced to put the Las Pailas Geothermal Plant into production earlier than expected due to the dry conditions affecting the country. Las Pailas II has 55 megawatts of installed capacity and its incorporation into the National Electric System is now programmed for May instead of June. The first trimester of the year has presented atypical we...