MANAGUA (EFE) – FormerPresident Arnoldo Alemán (1997-2002),serving a 20-year prison sentence for corruption,was returned to house arrestFriday night after spending four months ina capital...
YOU’VE seen them.Shoes, with the shoelaces tied together,hanging over electrical wires.And you’ve wondered why they’rethere.I’VE heard dozens of rumors – both inthe United States...
IT’S worth a trip to Alajuela, 17 kilometers west of San José onthe General Cañas highway, to visit the goodlight bookstore.Whether you’re a fanatical...
THE United Supermarket Corporation (CSU), including Palí,Más X Menos, Hipermás and Maxibodega Supermarkets, is holdinga free Disney child benefit on Dec. 20 at the...
¡Cumpleaños feliz, te deseamos a ti!Ah, the sound of children singing“Happy Birthday” ... dozens of childrensinging “Happy Birthday,” ... all in yourhome.NOT a clue...
THREE artists, three nationalities,three visions. British-born Deirdre Hydejoins U.S. citizen Vimala Joan Martha andCosta Rican Carmel Montoya in Trilogy,for what promises to be a...
“A restaurant is only as goodas the last meals it serves.”–Eliot Greenspan,The Tico Times RestaurantGuideto Costa RicaTHIS can be agonizingly true,particularly if you dine...
“We can learn much from books, but we canlearn more from the contemplation of Nature,the reason and occasion of all books.”–(Santiago Ramón y Cajal1852-1934,...
THERE is plentyof action on thePacific coast and thesnook are in solid onthe northern Caribbean,with idealweather in both locations.Forrest Zielkereports from the newSanctuary Resort...
Venezuelan arms distributors Michel andGorka Ibáñez are reconsidering their plan to openCosta Rica’s first gun factory, after the brothers’proposal sparked fierce opposition among governmentofficials...
