RICHARD Hinkle, a businessman and former pastor facing extradition by U.S. authorities for allegedly swindling 30 people out of $3.6 million, is also wanted...
IN 2003, the Costa Rican Electricity and Telecom Institute (ICE) reported ¢3.35 billion ($78.7 million) in revenues – 18.2% more than in 2002.
The increase...
SEVERAL Costa Rican sportsbook owners hailed a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling ordering the United States to provide justification for the restrictions it...
BETWEEN January and December 2003, the average salary of private sector employees increased 3% in real terms (taking into account the effects of the...
IN their intense concentration on the descent of man, anthropologists have virtually ignored the fact that evolution, which brought us from Pithecanthropus to Homo...
ONE of Costa Rica’s more striking traditions is the mascarada, bands of people in towering costumes topped by fiendish, creepy and friendly painted masks...
