MANAGUA – With the objective ofoffering better attention to investors andthe public in general, the NicaraguanTourism Institute (INTUR) last weekopened its long-anticipated Center forPublic...
MANAGUA (EFE) – PresidentEnrique Bolaños has pledged Nicaragua toan international campaign to eradicatechild labor in the mining sector by the year2015, even though the...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – AGuatemalan mayor in the western municipalityof Génova Costa Cuca was killedby unidentified assailants Monday morning,according to police.Mayor Marciano Pérez, 54,...
MANAGUA (AFP) – Exasperatedafter having his car broken into on countlessoccasions in the capital, Nicaraguanfruit vendor Ismael Solís has employed acreative new method of...
RESIDENTS of the traditionallypeaceful mountaintop community ofMonteverde, in north-central Costa Rica,remain immersed in an ongoing water rightsstruggle over a controversial irrigationproject.At the heart of...
A bill to replace Costa Rica’s outdatedfishing law was approved unanimously bythe 38 legislators present during firstdebate on the floor of the LegislativeAssembly last...
TOURIST Carroll Collins knows therules; he is a private investigator and hasbeen vacationing in Costa Rica for years:Don’t leave valuables visible in your rentalcar....
SECOND Circuit Penal Courtjudges have prolonged the preventivedetention orders for former PresidentsRafael Ángel Calderón, Jr. (1990-1994)and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1998-2002), both accused of accepting...
GOVERNMENT and private-sectorcommunity leaders who have joined forcesto create a new technology lab at theZurquí Juvenile Formation Center hopethey can arm the young inmates...
ON behalf of the Costa RicanCatholic Church, Bishop José FranciscoUlloa publicly asked for forgiveness thisweek for the sex crimes church leadershave committed in the...