No menu items!

COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER

- Advertisement -spot_img

ARCHIVE

Monthly Archives: October, 2014

Missing Mexico students not among 28 in mass grave

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – The mystery over the fate of 43 Mexican students missing since an attack by gang-linked police deepened Tuesday after authorities said none were among 28 bodies found in a mass grave.

Next up for new ombudswoman Montserrat Solano: Costa Rica’s inaction on in vitro fertilization

An attorney representing 22 couples involved in a legal dispute with the Costa Rican government regarding its failure to legalize in vitro fertilization has turned to the country's new ombudswoman, Monserrat Solano Carboni, for help.

Costa Rica’s La Sele defeats South Korea 3-1 in friendly

After raising doubts about their performance in a friendly match in Asia last Friday, Costa Rica's national football team, known as La Sele, redeemed themselves on Tuesday and looked more like the squad that finished eighth at the Brazil 2014 World Cup. La Sele defeated South Korea 3-1.

Dual exhibits at National Gallery highlight student creativity

The building that contains The Children’s Museum is the perfect place to display some adolescent artwork, and the range of their subjects and styles is a pleasure to behold, whether you know the students or not.

Storyline: Ebola is actually difficult to get

"Ebola is not a terribly infectious disease," said Joel Selanikio, a former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) epidemiologist. "It's quite difficult to get."

2 temblors also shook Costa Rica last night

Two strong temblors of magnitudes 4.9 and 6.7 shook most of Costa Rica Monday night, at 9:31 p.m. and 9:52 p.m.

Week-long Carnavales de Limón liven up Caribbean

In so many ways, the Caribbean Carnaval is unique, both in Costa Rica and around the world.

Magnitude-7.3 earthquake off El Salvador coast shakes Central America

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – A powerful magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Central America late Monday, killing at least one person and prompting a brief tsunami warning.

‘Environmental hero’ reforestation campaign aims to restore biological corridors in Costa Rica

A reforestation campaign called "Environmental Heroes" this month is asking people to donate funds for the planting, maintenance and monitoring of trees on Costa Rican farms.

Court rejects final appeal against Moín Port expansion; construction to start within 2 months

The Supreme Court’s Civil and Administrative Law Branch recently rejected the final pending appeal against a port renovation and expansion project by APM Terminal, a Maersk subsidiary based in the Netherlands. The lawsuit attempted to block the $1 billion project on the country's Caribbean coast by claiming that APM's exclusive 33-year concession to operate the container terminal is an illegal monopoly.

Latest news

- Advertisement -spot_img