TWENTY percent of those who visitedCosta Rica in 2004 came to ride the waves.According to Costa Rican Tourism Institute(ICT) statistics, 222,659 tourists came toCosta...
FOR nearly thirty years, many residentsof the southern Caribbean communitiesof Puerto Viejo and Cahuita have livedwith the unstable reality of not owning theland they...
CONSTRUCTION officially beganlast week on the long-awaited, 30-kilometerhighway to the Northern Zone’s largestcity, Ciudad Quesada, a project more than30 years in the making. The...
AS of last week, drivers headingnorthwest out of San José to Alajuela onthe General Cañas highway have to paytolls again after a two-month breakprompted...
ANOTHER gas price hike wasapproved this week, while gas consumptionis falling, in part because of highprices.The Public Services RegulatoryAuthority (ARESEP) approved onMonday a 5.7%...
APPROXIMATELY 700 CostaRicans were detained while trying tocross the U.S. border illegally betweenJanuary and the beginning of July, thedaily La Nación reported.The number indicates...
AT press time, yet another tropicalstorm, this one dubbed Beta, was threateningthe east coast of Central America;the U.S. National Storm Center had predictedthe storm...
ON a pineapple plantation in northcentralCosta Rica, a ditch-digging crewwith a backhoe recently unearthed a thin,finely crafted fishtail – or Magellan – slatespearhead chipped...
VÍNCULOS, the Costa Rican archaeologyjournal that represents the scientificoverhaul of the largely ignored and somewhatmystic version of archaeology in CostaRica before the 1970s, turned...
(Part third in a three-part series on the United World College.)WITH a guest list that could includeQueen Noor of Jordan and South Africancivil rights...
