ANGRY residents stood in front ofbackhoes nearly all night in the cloud forestchill and raised shovels to seal ditchesdug without their consent late last...
AFTER months of panic among foreignershere and abroad hoping to retire inCosta Rica, legislators have scrapped acontroversial proposal to increase themonthly income requirement for...
THE Constitutional Chamber of theSupreme Court (Sala IV) has ruled thatthe Department of Immigration can nolonger investigate marriages betweenCosta Rican citizens and foreigners whoseek...
ONE earthquake struck in the northand a second in the central Pacific coastMonday morning, rattling furniture andjiggling things on shelves from the northwesternprovince of...
GRANADA, Nicaragua – As of lastMonday at midnight, the Nicaraguan statephone company Enitel has reestablishedconnections between Costa Rican phonelines and cell phones in Nicaragua,...
THE number of foreign tourists tovisit Costa Rica’s 155 national parks andprotected areas shot up 27.13% in 2004,for a total of 669,980 tourists, the...
WHEN it comes to environmentalchallenges facing Costa Rica, this year willbe “as difficult a year as the rest of them,”according to Environment Minister CarlosManuel...
TEXTILE industry leaders used theannouncement of 400 layoffs by TextileraVF, the Costa Rican operation of Lee andWrangler, as an opportunity to reiteratethe need for...
QUITO (EFE) – Leaders from LatinAmerican banana-producing countriesmet in Ecuador Wednesday to discuss theregion’s response to the European Union’sproposed banana tariff hike, and decidedto...
ON Tuesday, for the first time inPlayas del Coco’s history, a cruise shipwill arrive at the Pacific beach town inthe northwestern province of Guanacaste.The...
