WALKING through the front gate ofTotem Hotel and Restaurant, across theroad from Playa Cocles, just south ofPuerto Viejo de Talamanca on the southernCaribbean coast,...
THANKS to a donation by EnglishmanKenneth McCormick, the Costa RicanArt Museum now finds itself six works ofart richer.The four watercolor paintings, onepage of various...
HEAVY rainreported last weekat Barra Colorado,on the northernCaribbean coast,disappeared as fastit came up. Stillsome wet weatheroff Quepos,although JeanettePérez at J.P.Sportfishing on thecentral coast reported...
“JUSTICIAEST CONSTANS ET PERPETUA,”carved letters proudly proclaim above theentrance to the Supreme Court in downtown SanJosé: justice is constant and perpetual.Perpetual, indeed, for the...
IT had all the makings of a classic Costa Rican antitrade-pact march: handmade banners, familiar chantsthrough megaphones, and a giant papier-mâché caterpillarwith sharp fangs...
The ascension of German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to thepost of spiritual leader of 416.4 million Latin American andCaribbean Catholics, nearly half of the world’s...
THE firstthing to be awareof when leasing inCosta Rica is thatthe regulationsapplicable to suchrelationships aresomewhat differentfrom the onestenants mayencounter in othercountries.Future tenantsshould take intoaccount...
AN upstart Texan country-music singer or fledglingCeltic-music band from Scotland might cut their musicalteeth on airwaves piped to bean farmers in the Los Chilesregion,...
STUDENTS of InternationalBaccalaureate (IB) Art at LincolnSchool, Alberto Castillo, AdrianaRivas, Adriana Ruiz, and AmandaVargas, will be exhibiting the result oftwo years’ work at Centro...
