A recent poll by “Caring for Yourselfis Loving Yourself,” a social program foryouth, found that while approximately70% of Costa Rican adolescents say thehave “active...
POLICE arrested a U.S. citizen andhis Colombian girlfriend on Monday assuspects in the killing of U.S. citizenBenjamin David Wood, 33, although nomotive has been...
“FLAT Stanley,” a paper doll modeledafter the protagonist of Jeff Brown’spopular children’s book of the samename, arrived in Costa Rica this month –and went...
U.S. citizen Tommy Broan is recoveringthis week after falling approximately10 meters off a zip-line cable in PlayaHermosa, on the central Pacific coast, andlying in...
THE Constitutional Chamber of theSupreme Court (Sala IV) has ruled thatMall Internacional, in Alajuela northwestof San José, discriminated against a tattooedand pierced man by...
LEADERS of Costa Rica’s gay communityhave announced that they plan toincrease their participation in the 2006presidential election with an “informedvote” about the sexual-orientation policiesof...
CUBA’S recent proposal that theUnited Nations’ Human-RightsCommission investigate possible human rightsviolations against prisoners at theU.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay hasnot found favor with...
COSTA Rica, like all Latin America,has dropped compared to the rest of theworld in its capacity to use and produceinformation and communication technologies,displaced in...
SOME victims of past natural disastersin Costa Rica have waited as long as17 years for relief promised by authoritiesafter hurricanes, floods and earthquakes,according to...
UNWANTED pregnancies, AIDS,gonorrhea and syphilis are among theproblems threatening Costa Rican teens,partly as a result of insufficient efforts toeducate them about the dangers of...
