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Costa Rica’s Credit Rating Improves

COSTA Rica’s economic outlook isimproving, according to internationalcredit evaluator Standard and Poor’s(S&P). The firm has increased the country’srating from negative to stable inresponse to...

Tico Economist Named Personality of the Year

CALLED the “Alan Greenspan ofCosta Rica,” Eduardo Lizano has beennamed Personality of the Year in LatinAmerica by the London-based newspaper,The Financial Times.The honor comes...

Internet Café for Blind To Open Here

COSTA Rica will be the first CentralAmerican nation to open an Internet caféfor the blind, which will work by meansof a voice system.The National...

Software Piracy Rates Down Here, Up in Region

LATIN America pirated 66% of thesoftware it used in 2004, up from the previousyear and a figure almost twice theworld average, according to a...

Red Cross Exempted From Paying Gas Tax

THE Legislative Assembly hasapproved a law exonerating the Costa RicanRed Cross from having to pay the ¢132($0.28)-per-liter fuel tax. According to theRed Cross, it...

Saprissa Fans to the End

FANS of San José’s Saprissa soccerteam can now go all the way andbeyond in their team colors with theteam’s newest commercial venture,Saprissa coffins. Made...

Art in Public Spaces Beautifies the Capital

TO paraphrase singer Billy Joel, “Singus a song, you’re the piano bridge.”A pedestrian bridge painted to resemblea piano is the latest addition to the...

Californian Painter Draws Inspiration from Atenas

Second in an ongoing serieson Atenas-based artists.WHAT mesmerizes Californianartist Alice Constantineabout the 360-degreeview from her house in thehilly outskirts of Atenas, acoffee town northwest...

Music to be Celebrated on Summer Solstice

JUNE 21 is Music Day, andeveryone is encouraged to dust offtheir instruments and voices on thelongest day of the year.In Costa Rica, the celebration...

“Water: Source of Life” Mini-Fair Honors the Earth

WATERWORKS: José Pablo Sánchez peers through a model demonstrating theunderground dynamics of water at the “Water: Source of Life” mini-fair, which tookplace June 12...

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