PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco returnedto work this week after being hospitalizedfor two days last week because of chestpains he experienced on Feb. 10.After medical exams...
U.S. Republican congressman DanBurton, recently elected chairman of theWestern Hemisphere Subcommittee of theInternational Relations Committee, visitedSan José this week.The Indiana congressman met withex-President and...
THE long-awaited Fishing andAquaculture Law, which includes sanctionsagainst fishing in protected areas, unlicensedfishing vessels and unsustainableshark fishing, was approved by the LegislativeAssembly in second...
LOVE was in the air as visiting U.S.economist and author Russell Roberts presentedtwo lectures on trade and economicsin San José Monday.The university professor gave...
TAKING Shape: Alejandro Hernández, from Coronado, watchessculptor Efraín Romero work in the central park of Barva, amountain town northwest of San José, as part...
FOUR months after it was inaugurated,the $36 million Hospital San Rafael deAlajuela, in Alajuela, west of San José, isbreaking down, says the government.Officials are...
RETIRED teacher andbookstore owner Valerie Evanspassed away Monday followingan embolism of her lungs due tocomplications after a surgery atCima Hospital in Escazú, westof San...
SILVIA Ruiz, a Spanish law studentwho studied Costa Rican cooperative lawfor a year while living here writing herdoctoral thesis, said the educationalopportunities cooperatives offer...
THIRTEEN years ago a group of poorentrepreneurs pooled their resources andformed a grocery store cooperative in thenorthern Pacific province of Guanacaste.They used their collective...
LOGISTICAL problems created achaotic first day of school for some of thecountry’s approximately 970,000 studentson Monday, especially in Caribbean slopecommunities affected by severe floods...
