MANY residents and visitorsto Costa Rica will remember theTara Resort Hotel and Spa: asplendid mansion modeled afterthe plantation house in “GoneWith the Wind.” Perched...
ON the beach in Montezuma, on thesouthern tip of the Nicoya Peninsula in thePuntarenas province, the Iacono familyover the past 25 years has cultivated...
THEY were gettinga few tarpon onthe Caribbean overlast weekend, butheavy rains hit onSunday, raising thewater level, andthings were prettywell shut down byearly this week.It’s...
A record-breaking deluge Saturday nightheralded four days of rain that flooded hundredsof communities on the Caribbean slope, forcingthousands from their homes and thousands ofothers...
AN apparent leak to the press, along with the courtsystem’s vacation schedule, have resulted in suspense forthe interested parties in a seven-year battle over...
A 16-year-old recovering crack and glue addict sayshe wouldn’t mind being locked up for a few months ina publicly funded drug-treatment center for children.Although...
AFTER nearly 10 years of struggling to fill the void inthe country’s fishing legislation, environmental organizationsare hopeful a new fishing law will be approved...
One Year AgoLarge earthquakes and a change ofcolor in the lake of the active IrazúVolcano’s main crater generated panicamong neighboring communities.However, geologists said there...
DURING the past year, airline ticket prices have dropped by as much as 50%worldwide because of greater competitionand efforts by airlines to reducecosts, the...
HOTELS will operate at nearly 90%occupancy during the first trimester of2005, 10% more than in 2004, saidWilliam Rodríguez, president of theNational Tourism Chamber (CANATUR).“With...
