THE National Concessions Council(CNC) has received bids from seveninternational consortiums competing for acontract to build the Metropolitan ElectricTrain (TREM) project.The consortiums are made up...
A rice mite that has attacked plantationssince April or even earlier maycause a decrease in Costa Rican rice productionof 40,000 tons and an estimatedloss...
ANY Citibank or Citigroup customersreceiving an e-mail asking them to visit aWeb site and enter their account informationshould report it immediately to bankofficials because...
SAN GABRIEL DE TURRUBARES– With a few thousand dollars in donatedfunds, know-how from Universidad Nacional(UNA) and a million bees, housewivesin this rural area of...
CLASSICAL guitarist MatthewDunlap will visit San José from his homein Florida to perform a concert at theEugene O’Neill Theater in the CostaRican-North American Cultural...
FREQUENTLY tours in Costa Ricaentail luxury buses, prepackaged stops andbreathtaking scenery. During these tours,however, the places where Costa Ricanslive and work are often skimmed...
A VERYimportant conceptfor Costa Rica’sdivers and waterlovers to grasp iscalled shifting baselines.This termrefers to the graduallowering of standardsof what werepristine, wildoceans.Young or newdivers in...
THE Rain Forest Aerial Tram is celebrating10 years this month of treetopviews of the rain forest. The six-passengergondolas carry people quietly above thetrees putting...
When the night falls and the daytimedomino games end, protecting thewildlife becomes serious business.CARIARI NATIONAL WETLAND, Limón – Foryears, the 10-kilometer stretch of the...
JIM Damalas, owner of Hotel Sí ComoNo in Manuel Antonio, a popular beach townon the central Pacific coast, purchasedthe Villa Blanca estate in January.Villa...