A strike by Costa Rica’s near 100 air trafficcontrollers that began last Saturday, criticizedas illegal by top government officials, has thenation’s airports operating with...
LESS than a month after naming Álex Solís thecountry’s Comptroller General, the majority of theLegislative Assembly’s deputies asked the head inspectorof government financial contracts...
ZIPLINE canopy tours, white-water rafting, bungeejumping... Tourists in Costa Rica will find hundreds ofadventure-tour options, all promising to get adrenalinepumping and hearts racing. Choosing...
GRANADA, Nicaragua – In an effortto curb the widening salary gulch betweenwell-to-do politicians and the mostly poorelectorate that votes them into power, theopposition Sandinista...
GRANADA, Nicaragua – The abortiondebate that enveloped the countryearly last year in response to the pregnancyof a 9-year-old rape victim known as“Rosa” is heating...
GRANADA, Nicaragua – If the forestsare the lungs of Nicaragua, Lake Cocibolcais indisputably the country’s heart.Bordering 34 municipalities and spanning8,000 square kilometers, CentralAmerica’s largest...
A court in the southern Pacific porttown of Golfito yesterday extended thesentences of the convicted killers ofUniversity of Kansas student ShannonMartin, who was stabbed...
AS anyone who has tried it probablyknows, the process of obtaining the stampof approval from the National TechnicalSecretariat of the Environment Ministry(SETENA) to begin...
THE statue of former President José“Pepe” Figueres, who abolished CostaRica’s army in 1949, wore a rainbow flagand watched over the festivities during thesecond annual...
THE largest earthquake recorded inCosta Rica this year struck in the PacificOcean 100 kilometers west of the coastof the northern province of Guanacastethis week.It...
