GRANADA, Nicaragua – Soundingmore like politicians than environmentalists,Central America’s ministers of theenvironment last week sang in one voicetheir enthusiastic praises for the soon vigilantCentral...
AS San José Mayor Johnny Araya testifiedyesterday before a legislative commissionregarding allegations he acceptedkickbacks for awarding a multimillion-dollarcontract, his political adversariesdenied the mayor’s suggestions...
IT looked like a disappearing act, withhundreds of luckless investors dupedagain, but the man who claims to havepinned down $500 million of Villalobosinvestors’ money...
A group of students with innate technologicalabilities will meet in Costa Ricanext week for the first Power Users ofInformation and CommunicationTechnologies International Symposium.Sixty young...
IMMIGRATION director MarcoBadilla said in late June he needed four tosix months to get everything runningsmoothly in the General ImmigrationAdministration, where chaos currentlyreigns –...
THE fourth summit of the heads of stateof the Association of Caribbean States(ACS) concluded Aug. 5 with the signingof 30 cooperation agreements between theassociation’s...
WITH the presidential election justseven months away, more and more socialand economic issues facing the nation arebecoming political issues. Candidates arecoming forward more and...
Two young men died after beingstruck by cars while making the annualpilgrimage to the Basilica in Cartago thisweek; hundreds of other pilgrims sawemergency crews...
CONSTRUCTION of a high-tensionelectrical power line from Guatemala toPanama, coursing through all of CostaRica, may have some environmental risks,according to the Ombudsman’s Office.Together, all...
RESIDENTS of the Tayni IndigenousReserve, in the remote Valle de la Estrellain Costa Rica’s southern Caribbeanregion, recently inaugurated the region’sfirst high school.The new school,...
