COSTA Rica will have the diplomatichonor of being part of the UnitedNation’s Economic and Social Council(ECOSOC) beginning in 2005, theForeign Ministry announced.The council is...
JUDICIAL authorities are investigatingthe death of U.S. citizen DanielLoroin, 49, who apparently burned todeath as his house in the southernCaribbean beach town Puerto Viejo...
THE recess bell rings, but no one inYesseria Morales’ first-grade class makesa beeline for the door. While hundreds ofvoices outside begin the collectivescream that...
AT the Metropolitan Cathedral in SanJosé, site of one of the capital’s two air-qualitymonitoring stations, students and scientistsfrom the Universidad Nacional (UNA)lay a pristine...
IT is hard to find a corner of the CostaRican government not involved in prosecuting,investigating, defending itselfagainst, or decrying corruption allegationsthese days, and tax...
COSTA Rican diplomat JavierSancho has been named Costa Rica’s newAmbassador to the Organization of theAmerican States (OAS), after RinaContreras, who was to assume the...
THE Prosecutor’s Office this week saidit is investigating payments made to formerCosta Rican President Jose María Figueresby a French telecommunications firmalready under fire for...
WHEN Costa Rica requested inSeptember that its name be officiallystruck from list of the “Coalition of theWilling,” the countries that supported aU.S.-led invasion of...
NOW OPEN: After years of traveling to San José or other neighboringcommunities for mall and movie theater access, residents of Heredia,a city 30 minutes...
