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New Web Site Seeks to Promote Gay Pride

LAUNCHED June 26 – the dayof the Gay Pride Festival – the Website www.orgullogaycr.com is nowup and running. Seeking to “celebrateour identity, showing the...

Japanese Week 2005

A week of special events and festivitiesbegins tomorrow in honor ofJapanese Week, which this year coincideswith the 70-year anniversary ofdiplomatic relations between CostaRica and...

Festival Stimulates Dance as Form of Cultural Expression

THE much-anticipated NationalDance Festival will be taking place for theseventh year at the Melico Salazar Theaterin downtown San José July 28-30.The three-day festival will...

Ranching School Opens Doors to Day Trippers

IT’S 7 a.m. on a Saturday, and a largecrowd has gathered inside the Pacific trainstation in downtown San José. As rousingmusic begins to play,...

Action Still Solid on Both Coasts

NOT muchchange since lastweek’s report, withsolid action on bothcoasts continuingthrough last weekendand no letup insight.At Barra Colorado,on the northernCaribbean coast,Río Colorado Lodgeowner Dan Wisereported...

Mayor: Political Interests Are Behind Corruption Allegations

SAN José Mayor Johnny Araya has agreed toappear before a congressional commission nextThursday to answer questions about allegations thathe accepted payments totaling $65,000 in...

Escazú Prepares for Mudslides

AUTHORITIES expect 20,000 cubic meters of mudto slide off the side of Cerro Pico Blanco, a mountain thattowers over the western suburb of Escazú,...

Officials See Promising Future For Island with Murky Past

ISLA SAN LUCAS, Puntarenas – From the twomoldy solitary confinement cells that tower over the dockat the entrance to the former penitentiary, to the...

Garbage Scandal Erupts, San José Mayor Implicated

San José Mayor Johnny Araya this weekrejected calls that he step down from his postuntil state prosecutors finish investigatingwhether he accepted illegal payments from...

Pollution Costs Country Millions

THE black smoke that follows run-down semitrailers,recycled school buses and 15-year-old cars throughout SanJosé isn’t just stinky and bothersome; it is costly.Air pollution in...

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