As Costa Rica takes a beating from the global financial crisis, President Oscar Arias announced measures last week to reduce layoffs and defaults on...
Two prominent companies in Costa Rica, publisher Grupo Nación and pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, announced department cutbacks and layoffs this week.
The announcements...
The 6.2 magnitude earthquake that recently devastated the northeastern periphery of the metropolitan area, killing up to 30 people, brought to mind a troubling...
Tico chefs will start polishing up their chops for “Maestro culinario,” a gourmet cooking contest, which organizers officially launched Wednesday.
Wannabe contestants can sign up...
MANAGUA – Reaffirming their pledge to confront the global economic crisisthrough unity, government leaders from Central America met in Managua last week to announce...
Wind-energy investors are eyeing Nicaragua as the government of President Daniel Ortega is expected to open a bidding process to increase the country’s wind...
Like inadvertent pied pipers, Becky Poskin and her DartmouthCollege soccer teammates walk through the dusty slums of Granada with enticing bags of soccer balls...