IMPROVED infrastructure, more deliberate developmentand increased foreign investment – those are thegoals for Costa Rica’s tourist sector after two years ofhuge increases in the...
TAMARINDO, Guanacaste – As unpaved roadskick up dust next to partially built four-story condominiumbuildings and new shopping malls, it can behard to tell where...
A Starbucks float dedicated to CostaRican coffee growers was a hit at the116th Rose Bowl parade in Pasadena,California, on New Year’s Day, winningthe Excellence...
OFFICIALS from Riteve SyC willtestify Wednesday before a special governmentcommission that is studyingwhether to annul the firm’s controversialgovernment contract to perform mandatorytechnical vehicle inspections...
THE most devastating tidal wave tostrike Central America hit the Pacific coastof Nicaragua in 1992, a 9.5-meter wavethat left approximately 170 dead and morethan...
CANADIAN English teacher RanjitBogan was on vacation in Patong Beach,Phuket, Thailand, when the tsunami struckDec. 26. He wrote the following account tohis friend Sunita...
Among the thousands of foreignerswho died in the tsunamis that struckbeaches in Thailand last month, at presstime it was confirmed that one CostaRican man...
A 32-year-old Costa Rican manallegedly went on a door-to-door shootingrampage with an AK-47 late Sunday night,killing five people, including threewomen, before committing suicide in...
THIS will be a crucial year for reachinggoals in the fight against poverty,which affects 20.7% of the country’s populationof approximately 4 million, andattaining greater...
