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UK to designate Pitcairn Island area as the biggest protected ocean area in the world

When the mutineers of the HMS Bounty landed on Pitcairn Island in 1790, they believed they had found the perfect refuge: a fertile Eden...

Motorcycle duo shoots U.S. businessman in Escazú suburb of San José, Costa Rica

The U.S. citizen, who police said worked in real estate, was taken to the San Juan de Dios Hospital in San José for surgery at approximately 11:00 a.m.

Costa Rica’s Heredia triumphs 3-0 over América, closing in on Concacaf final

The game was hard fought and América was left with one player down after Michael Arroyo was kicked out of the match in the first half for sending a Costa Rican player to the hospital.

Cocal Amarillo: remote beaches, epic surfing – and soon, an airstrip

Cocal Amarillo has it all: secluded beaches, spectacular Pacific sunsets, and some of the best surfing in the country. For travelers hoping to get...

Costa Rica deports 12 US students in language school dispute

The Tico Times spoke with former Máximo Nivel employees who said that they knowingly worked under the table for the language school for months at time without formal work permits and were asked in some cases to hide from government inspectors when they visited the school.

New rule requires public institutions to consider vendors’ environmental record when buying tires

Costa Rica imports 1 million tires and produces another 281,000 annually, according to the Health Ministry’s Human Environment Protection Administration.

Nicaraguan organization seeks to provide antidote to sham exorcisms

In Nicaragua there is a lack of information about psychosis. People tend to turn to natural healers and witchdoctors.

Organized crime and local power struggles blamed in murder of three Guatemalan journalists

Two journalists were murdered in the city of Mazatenango on March 10 and a third on March 13 in the nearby town of Chicacao. Guatemalan Interior Minister Mauricio López said Monday that the recent crimes could be related to a drug trafficking ring that operates in the area.

Spain finds apparent remains of Quixote writer Cervantes

The forensic anthropologists who say they found the remains of famed writer Miguel de Cervantes used infrared cameras, 3D scanners and ground-penetrating radar to identify spots where remains could be stored underneath the chapel in the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in central Madrid.

Fears of food shortages in Vanuatu as huge damage revealed

Relief agencies have warned that conditions are among the most challenging they have faced, with mounting concerns about disease.

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