NEARLY two years of governmentstudies and alliance-building efforts haveresulted in significant improvements forchild-safety efforts, especially on the locallevel, the director of the National CommunityDevelopment...
AN April 1 meeting between CostaRican President Abel Pacheco and MartínTorrijos, President of Panama, yieldedagreements on various cooperative measuresto strengthen the struggling frontierregion between...
THE town of Paraíso, in the easternprovince of Cartago, has declared itselfthe first transgenic-free territory in CostaRica, by a vote of the Municipal Council.The...
MORE than 1 million ecstaticCatholics thronged Pope John PaulII during his historic, 40-hour visit tothis country in March 1983, the onlytime a pope has...
THE 1978 election of Pope John PaulII, the first non-Italian Pope in 455 years,coupled with the high concentration ofCatholics in the Americas, where half...
THE death of Pope John Paul II – anevent that brought the tradition-steeped,mysterious world of the Vatican to thefrenetic newstickers of CNN – exposedceremonies...
LIKE a team of development superheroes, five pilots from the U.S. NationalAeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) have spent the past six weeks inCosta Rica helping...
FOUR defenders of children’s rightshave picked up the baton where the oncenearly omnipresent defender of children,Costa Rica’s former Casa Alianza chapter,let it fall.They are...
IMPROVED product diversity andincreased exports to Asian markets helpedCosta Rican exports rise to $530 million inFebruary, Trade Minister Manuel Gonzálezannounced recently.He added that the...
THE soccer gurus in the Costa RicanSoccer Federation (FEDEFUT) gaveColombian coach Jorge Luis Pinto of theCosta Rican national team, La Selección,his walking papers last...
