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Truce Worked Out in Southern Zone Row

Following protests last week, officials with the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications Ministry (MINAET) agreed to work with developers, local laborers, fisherman and the municipal...

Costa Rica’s Caribbean at Risk for Disease

After days of record rain, the Caribbean is vulnerable to dengue fever and other diseases, health authorities say. People wading in flooded areas risk contracting...

Agriculture Takes Hit From Recent Flooding

Following nearly two weeks of flooding, the government is beginning to take stock of the damage across the Caribbean plains and coast. Floodwaters have subsided,...

ICE to Offer 60,000 GSM Lines Next Week

The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) will free up 60,000 GSM cell phone lines for sale starting this Monday, a far cry from the...

Organic Products a Growing Niche in Tico Farming

PLAYA GUIONES, Guanacaste – “Fresh orange juice, tita?” Blanca Cerdas asks a potential customer at this year’s inaugural organic market in this Pacific coastal...

Unionizing in C. America Hazardous to Workers

Central American labor leaders yesterday denounced the constraints and sometimes fatal conditions for unionizing in the region following a damning report by the International...

2 Millionth Tourist Party Has Had to Wait

With much hoopla, the Costa Rican Tourism Board had planned to welcome 2008’s 2 millionth tourist last week. Now, because of a slowdown in tourism,...

MMA Grows More Popular but Still Unregulated

The first thing you notice at a mixed martial arts fight is the absence of blood. The second is the almost reverent dedication of...

Central Pacific Developer Facing $2M in Fines

Developers behind a massive luxury housing project in the hills above the central Pacific surf town Playa Hermosa are facing fines of more than...

Plan to Redraw Las Baulas Boundary Rejected

Three bills that would have redefined the borders of Las Baulas National Marine Park in Playa Grande, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, have...

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