JUDGES sentenced Costa Rican prostitute SinaíMonge to eight years in prison this week after finding herguilty of heading a ring of underage prostitutes and...
REAL-estate insiders agree coastalproperties are in and should continue tosell well this year, but other trends in thebusiness are not so easily defined or...
COSTA Rica may have been at the center of theCentral American real estate radar for years, but the signalis spreading, and foreigners increasingly are...
THE fall began more than two yearsago with the collapse of several high-interest-paying investment companies, includingthe famous – or infamous, to some –Villalobos Brothers,...
FOR a business in Costa Rica, membershipin one of the country’s free zones,or zonas francas, can mean privilegessuch as tax exemption on imports andutilities,...
EVEN for excellent second-languageSpanish speakers, the prospect of discussingblueprints, translating constructionrequirements and deciphering technicaljargon in Spanish can leave any would-behouse builder cold.However, help is...
BORN and raised in Israel among thefragrant herbs and bright flowers of hernative country, it seems appropriate thatDeganit Ganon’s name translates as“cornflower.” Her horticulturist...
COMPETITION is stiff for beachcondominiums by the Pacific, as moreand more holidaymakers decide theywould like their own little slice of paradise.Costa Rica, with its...