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Costa Rica’s Bellavista Gold Mine Starts Commercial Mining

The Bellavista open-pit gold mine, in the town of Miramar, near the Pacific port city of Puntarenas, officially started commercial operations last month, according...

Costa Rica’s Boruca Masks Gain Importance, Recognition

YOU might see them in museums and souvenir shops around the country: brightly colored, meticulously carved wooden masks with fierce and sometimes even frightening...

Pseudorcas: The Gift-Giving Dolphins of Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula

IF only animals were smart enough to not take food from strange creatures like us. As you know, animals the world over have been...

Shopping in Costa Rica For High-Quality Gifts

RESIDENTS and visitors in Costa Rica will have lots to look forward to as businesses roll out their goods for shoppers looking for that...

Learning English in Costa Rica’s Public Schools: Let’s Give the Frog Some Wings

YOU may remember Marjorie from my last column. Her English teacher had given her class a list of the key words from all the...

Two-Headed Green Turtle Hatchling Found in Costa Rica Raises Concerns

On November 20th, a remarkable and rare event occurred on Playa Ostional, one of Costa Rica’s most important sea turtle nesting sites. A green...

Costa Rica Photojournalist Braves Treacherous Hike to Document Indigenous School

When I heard about the inauguration of a new school building at China Kichá – a remote jungle village in south-central Costa Rica’s Chirripó...

Why Costa Rica’s English Teachers Are Struggling in Public Schools

I explained in my last column how the writers of the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) English curriculum got it all right—and yet somehow...

Natural Diet And Cancer Prevention A Guide To Healthy Food Choices

MEDICAL research outlay in the United States now totals $95 billion a year, according to a recent issue of The Journal of the American...

Why Costa Rica’s Public Schools Struggle to Teach Real English

Prior to 1994, English was taught solely in secondary schools in Costa Rica. Two months after his inauguration, former President José María Figueres (1994–98)...

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