Tico Times

SO TO SPEAK: Tico resignation in the face of terrible Caja hospital service is part cultural, part weariness.

The three-hectare Ecocentro Danaus protects abundant flora and fauna and educates visitors in north-central Costa Rica.

MINDFUL LIVING: Moving to a new country may not make your problems go away.

SOMEONE SAID: A simple solution to the evils of speculation in the commodity market.

Five yoga postures that can help prepare and open the body for surfing.

Big tarpon numbers were reported at Barra del Colorado on the Caribbean coast. On the Pacific side, green water is slowing action on the central and southern coast, but sails and marlin have moved into the north.

The president needs to reconnect with Hispanics if he hopes to win a second term in 2012. Obama got 67 percent of the Latino vote in 2008, but the largest U.S. minority has become disenchanted over the president's failure to pass immigration reform, coupled with a dramatic increase in deportations under his administration.

The fair will initiate a national survey designed to measure English proficiency in Costa Rica.

Several investment projects, primarily in Guanacaste, have been announced in the past weeks. The total cost of the investments is approximately $300 million.

The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) will challenge a settlement over a case involving bribery charges filed by the U.S. government against French telecommunications...