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Monthly Archives: January, 2008

News Lawyer: Press Should Be More Aggressive

A painting of a door chained shut hangs in the office of veteran press lawyer Fernando Guier. The door reads “Colegiación periodismo,” and the...

No Skybridge to Link Del Rey, Key Largo

There will be no pedestrian skybridge connecting the Hotel del Rey with its Key Largo restaurant on the other side of the street, ruled...

3rd CAFTA Bill Approved

Costa Rica moved another step closer to entering a free-trade agreement with the United States. Lawmakers this week approved the third of 11 bills required...

First Big Bust of 2008 Yields 100 Kilos of Coke

Police seized 100 kilos of cocaine hidden in a van that was heading for the Nicaraguan border in Costa Rica's first major drug bust...

Perusing Parks in Paradise Just Got Pricier

Add “wad of cash” to your list of essentials for an excursion to Costa Rica's national parks. Entry fees jumped about 67% this year, the...

Malaria Fears Growing After 5 Cases Reported

Authorities have confirmed a new case of malaria in Guanacaste – the fifth incidence of the disease in the northwestern province in the last...

China To Build New Stadium

Costa Rica's National Stadium is in for a makeover. In the next two years, it will be demolished and replaced by a bigger,more modern structure...

Banco Nacional Increases Credit Portfolio

The country's biggest bank by market share increased its credit portfolio by more than half in 2007. Banco Nacional, one of the country's three state-owned...

Cruising Gets Good Start

The Queen Victory is an enormous boat. Sprawling the length of three football fields and weighing in at 90,000 tons, the ship sits 12...

27 New Tech Firms Touched Down in 2007

One designs sophisticated breaking and transmission electronics. Another sterilizes medical equipment by bombarding it with an electron beam. Several others handle phone calls from...

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