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Construction Booming In Beach Areas

Construction in Costa Rica grew by 64% in 2006 compared to the year before, boosted largely by the growing popularity, and desirability, of beach...

Dengue Rates Worry Guanacaste Residents

It started just before Christmas with a pulsing behind the eye sockets – like an icecream headache but worse. Then intense fever, dehydration, an...

Web Site Gathers Crime Stats in Guanacaste

“Which is worse in Costa Rica… the roads or the robberies?” So reads the first sentence on a new Web site dedicated to collecting...

Reader Survey Winners, Results Announced

The Tico Times thanks everyone who responded to our reader survey in late 2006. Winners of the five one-year print-edition subscriptions in Costa Rica...

Education Ministry Eliminates Mandatory Sixth-Grade Tests

Incoming sixth-graders getting ready to start school in February got a pleasant surprise this week: Public Education Minister Leonardo Garnier announced that starting this...

Officials Re-establish Anti-Terrorism Commission

The Costa Rican government this week re-established a commission to combat terrorism that had been around since 2004, according to a statement from Casa...

Caja Negotiates with Families Of Hospital Fire Victims

Officials with Costa Rica’s Social Security System (Caja) might offer as much as ¢100 million ($195,000) to the families of those who died in...

Fatal Semi-truck Accident Prompts Calls for Reform

After a family of four died Saturday when a semi-truck crumpled their Hyundai in a highway pile-up, transport officials are calling for tougher traffic...

Officials Expose Chinese Trafficking Ring

After a flurry of raids and arrests in Chinese restaurants and corner stores across the Central Valley last week, authorities have taken into custody...

Protests Prompt Ministry To Agree to Spare Some Trees

After a small group of neighbors and environmentalists protested a road-widening project that called for the removal of 150 trees south of La Sabana...

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