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Monthly Archives: December, 2004

Choir to Perform ‘Messiah’

AS its gift to the holiday season, theNational Symphony Choir is offering, freeof charge, three performances of Handel’s“Messiah” in the Central Valley.The choir, along...

Pacific Bistro: Four Out of Four Hits Not Too Bad

“A restaurant is only as goodas the last meals it serves.”–Eliot Greenspan,The Tico Times RestaurantGuideto Costa RicaTHIS can be agonizingly true,particularly if you dine...

New Botanical Garden in Sarchí Aims to Preserve Nature, Educate, Inform. . . and Delight Visitors

“We can learn much from books, but we canlearn more from the contemplation of Nature,the reason and occasion of all books.”–(Santiago Ramón y Cajal1852-1934,...

Plenty of Action on Pacific, Snook on Caribbean

THERE is plentyof action on thePacific coast and thesnook are in solid onthe northern Caribbean,with idealweather in both locations.Forrest Zielkereports from the newSanctuary Resort...

Gun Factory Plan May Be Shot Down

Venezuelan arms distributors Michel andGorka Ibáñez are reconsidering their plan to openCosta Rica’s first gun factory, after the brothers’proposal sparked fierce opposition among governmentofficials...

1 in 5 People Lives in Poverty

IN one year, Costa Rica’s poverty rate jumpedfrom the lowest it has been in more than a decade,to the highest it has been in...

Ex-President Refuses to Return

EX-PRESIDENT José María Figueres (1994-1998)announced Wednesday he would not return to Costa Ricafrom Switzerland to explain his alleged connection to oneof the corruption scandals...

U.S. Firm Heads Search For Missing Tourists

GRANADA, Nicaragua – A privatecrisis-management firm of former U.S.Military Special-Operations commandoshas been called into Ometepe Island tohelp lead a group of 150 rescue workersand...

Ave Maria College Gains Accreditation

GRANADA, Nicaragua – Ave MariaCollege of the Americas, the only U.S.four-year college in Central America,announced it has been awarded fullaccreditation status by the Board...

Cane Fire Claims Lives of 14 Children in Honduras

TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) – HonduranPresident Ricardo Maduro on Wednesdaymet with and consoled the families of 14youth – 12 of whom were minors – wholost their...

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