NINE-YEAR Playa Flamingo residentDeborah Marquand died March 27,Easter Sunday, falling victim to cancer.She was 56.Deborah was a popular real estateagent, with her husband Jon,...
IT was a classic, corny sports flickfinish – Costa Rica’s national soccer team,La Selección, scored the tie-breaking goalagainst Panama in the last minute of...
WITH opposition to the CentralAmerican Free-Trade Agreement with theUnited States (CAFTA) becoming stillmore concerted this week, President AbelPacheco took his strongest pro-CAFTAstance in months,...
WITHIN three months, earthmoverscould be starting their engines on the PapagayoPeninsula as ground is broken on thelatest undertaking of the upscale tourism development:the Peninsula...
FOR the first time since the 1980s,the Central Bank’s reserves exceed itsforeign currency debt, La Nación reportedthis week.In 2004, the reserves, which includeforeign currency,...
THE Center for InternationalMedicine (CIMA) Hospital in Escazú, awestern San José suburb, offered a weekof special events for employees and formerpatients to celebrate the...
WHAT a difference a day makes.On Monday night, former Costa RicanPresident Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1998-2002) ate his evening meal at the penitentiaryLa Reforma, outside...
UNEXPECTED sobbing, insomnia,anxiety, headaches, nightmares, anger, lossof appetite, depression and nausea aresome of the effects of the trauma the peopleof Santa Elena de Monteverde...
ONLY a week after a failed bankholdup in the north-central mountaintown of Santa Elena de Monteverdestunned the nation and left nine peopledead, a bloodless...
