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Monthly Archives: May, 2015

Spirit Airlines to fly Houston-Costa Rica starting May 28

Spirit Airlines will fly four times a week between Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) starting May 28.

Tamarindo sunset cruise offers a lot more than booze

Hit the open seas (and the open bar) on the Antares, an 80-foot schooner built in 1947 that offers daily sunset cruises in Tamarindo.

Monteverde hotel owner of 11 years has few regrets

Monteverde hotel owner Ran Smith looks back on 11 years in the business and discusses the pros and cons of buying a hotel in Costa Rica.

The Road-Builder of Montezuma

Kelly Mason spent years working for Hollywood. Now she has a more concrete goal: to pave the roads of rural Nicoya.

Offshore drilling could threaten Belize’s Great Blue Hole

A proposal recently made public by Belize's Ministry of Energy would allow for offshore oil exploration in 99 percent of Belize’s waters, including protected marine areas and world heritage sites, like the Great Blue Hole.

This video by a Columbia University neuroscientist​ might be the best case against the drug war ever made

In an experiment, neuroscientist and professor Carl Hart found that, contrary to the notion of the craven drug fiend who will do literally anything for one more hit, half of cocaine and meth users opted to receive $5 instead of a hit of their drug of choice.

One of Costa Rica’s sextuplets dies

Diego, who weighed just 988-grams, was born with his five other siblings Sunday evening after only 28 weeks. He died Wednesday after his lungs failed.

Unregistered, illegal health products sold online, delivered to Costa Rica

Public Health Ministry officials reported that they have found a total of 69 websites, including social media profiles and online pharmacies, that offer to deliver medication and other health products that don't comply with Costa Rica’s sanitary regulations.

World Cup sponsors Coke, Visa also concerned about Qatar labor conditions

"We continue to be troubled by the reports coming out of Qatar related to the World Cup and migrant worker conditions," credit card giant Visa said in a statement.

Guatemalan central bank, social security chiefs arrested in latest government corruption scandal

The heads of the Guatemalan Central Bank and social security administration were arrested Wednesday on corruption charges, prosecutors said. The case comes on top of a separate scandal over a customs bribery ring, which forced former Vice President Roxana Baldetti to resign earlier this month.

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