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Monthly Archives: April, 2006

Coffee, Gene Linked to Risk of Heart Attacks

Those who rely on coffee to arouse the comatose zombie within might be interested to know that Canadian research has revealed a genetic predisposition...

Clock Ticking for Residents of La Candela Shantytown

The small lot looks like a hurricane zone. Fragments of plaster and tin, a razed garden, an empty Häagen-Dazs carton, a flattened tin that...

Ministry Suspends Earth Day Celebration

The recent eruptions of Poás Volcano prompted the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) to cancel its Earth Day celebration planned to take place...

Heredia Host Country’s First Gay-Lesbian Summit

Marking April as the Costa Rican Month of Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and Trans-gendered (GLBT) Pride, various GLBT groups, as well as human rights and...

Pacheco Predicts Dark Days Ahead

One might expect an outgoing President to paint a rosy picture of his country’s future – but not Abel Pacheco, who this week predicted...

Zoo Manager Wins Appeal

Despite government efforts to oust the administrator of the country’s main zoo, slinging accusations of poor conditions for the animals, a high court has...

Legislators Discuss U.N. Millennium Goals

Like countries around the world, Costa Rica has a goal to reach by 2015 – eight, in fact – the U.N. Millennium Development Goals that list objectives...

Leaders Rally for National Indigenous Day

Costa Rican Indigenous Day gave the country a reason to celebrate the country’s eight native groups on Wednesday. But for indigenous leaders who traveled...

Foreigners to Get New Residency Cards

Foreign residents in Costa Rica who need to renew their residency permits can look forward to replacing the inconvenient, oversized booklet used for years...

47 People Arrested at “The Burning of Judas”

Police in Heredia, north of San José, arrested a total of 40 people, including four minors, for allegedly participating in a series of disturbances...

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