It's a relatively minor procedure, but with the surgery so close to the start of the World Cup it'll come down to the wire whether Suarez is ready for the team's opener -- which is against Costa Rica on June 14.
Said to hold 4 percent of the world's biodiversity, the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica's southwest is known as a hotspot for animal encounters. But this week area residents spotted an animal they had never seen before: a sea lion.
Turtle soup will not be on the menu in the eastern municipality of Pococí today after police detained two men for transporting 18 snapper turtles in a truck.
Judicial Investigation Police announced Thursday morning they had busted an international drug ring that ferried cocaine from Costa Rica to Germany and Austria, hiding the drugs among shipments of tropical flowers.
Every year, from late February through July, leatherback sea turtles haul themselves onto Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast to lay their eggs, and every year, egg poachers are there to greet them.
Former Education Minister Leonardo Garnier on Wednesday evening said that a backlog in payment of public teachers’ salaries did not originate from the transition to a new computer system, but rather from problems caused by the old payment system.
Rainy season has gotten off to a drier-than-normal start. But that may change tomorrow as humidity levels increase Wednesday evening. The change likely will bring late afternoon heavy rains and thunderstorms, according to the National Meteorological Institute (IMN).
Striker Joel Campbell and midfielder Celso Borges, two probable La Sele starters in Brazil, are dealing with minor knee injuries. The pair is being monitored closely by medical staff this week during Costa Rica's World Cup training camp. However, team officials assured that neither injury is grave.
Two police officers, a rabbi and a Boy Scout leader are among 70 men and one woman arrested on child pornography charges in the largest such bust in New York, officials said Wednesday.
