GROWING conflict over President Abel Pacheco’scontroversial stance on the Central American Free-TradeAgreement with the United States (CAFTA) left TradeMinister Manuel González holding the resignation...
One Year AgoTwo veggie-oil-powered buses carrying more thantwo dozen members of the Sustainable SolutionsCaravan arrived in San José after a two-month excursionstarting in San...
DESPITE DNA tests that showManuel Lopéz is the father of his 9-yearolddaughter’s child, born in October2003, a court determined in February hewas not guilty...
TWENTY-SIX self-dubbed “ecologicalmissionaries” arrived in Costa Ricain January after a two-month trip fromCalifornia in two vintage buses withdiesel engines converted to burn vegetableoil.Steering clear...
FOLLOWING a surgical complication,transplant patient Carlos Sánchez, 21,rejected the kidney that a stranger, KatiaBrenes, 22, had donated to him inNovember.Without having met him, the...
A business cooperative of 800 organiccacao producers in Talamanca, in thesouthern Caribbean zone, told The TicoTimes in May that manufacturers of finechocolates in Italy...
MORE than a dozen residents nearthe Northern Zone’s Lake Arenal toldThe Tico Times in January that they haveseen crocodiles in Lake Arenal in thepast...
