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Monthly Archives: January, 2008

Worldwide Oil Woes Spark Gas Hike Request

The National Oil Refinery (RECOPE) has requested another hike in the price of fuel due to record-high oil prices worldwide. Pending approval by the Public...

New High-Speed Service Available to Businesses

The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) plans to offer a new variety of super high-speed, high-volume Internet connections to companies in the Central Valley. Known...

High Crime Cutting Into Firms’ Bottom Line

In Escazú, a would-be robber shoots dead a security guard at an electronics store. The shooter and three accomplices flee. In San José, three armed...

Flotsam, Jetsam Theme of Montezuma Art Festival

The eighth annual Chunches de Mar Art Camp Festival is under way near the beach community of Montezuma, on the southern tip of northwestern...

L.A. Playwright Directs ‘Hysteria’

“I work hard to get things down, striving to exploit the various facets of theater to create visually exciting and quality productions,” said Alicia...

TV Dance Contests Reveal Cultural Surprise

I can't believe it, and I've lived in Costa Rica for 17 years. I don't know how I'm going to make you believe it. Some...

Burnt Buns: I Could’ve Been Rich

In 1976 I arrived in Costa Rica with all my worldly possessions, a pregnant wife and some enlarged skin cells in the middle of...

San José Handicraft Market a One-stop Shop

Shopping. The very word scares me. Where to go? What to buy? How much to pay? Do I know how to say, “I'm fine,...

Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park: Take a Hike in Monkey Land

It was her first day in Ticolandia. She didn't know about monkeys.My mom hadn't yet learned that it wasn't cool to gasp and gawk...

Coffee Exports Up 46.6% in Two Months

MANAGUA – Coffee exports are up 46.6% during the first two months of the 2007-08 harvest in relation to the same period last year,...

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