The cruise ship carrying a Texas health-care worker who "may have" handled lab specimens from Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan is headed back to the United States after Mexican authorities failed to grant permission for the ship to dock off the coast of Cozumel, according to a Carnival spokeswoman.
Prices for Venezuela's oil, which accounts for 95 percent of the nation's exports, are tumbling to a four-year low and threatening to choke off the export dollars the country needs to pay its debts.
Beyoncé isn't the only celebrity that likes to vacation in Costa Rica. Arriving in Spring of 2015, Archie Andrews and the gang from Archie Comics will tour the country for their spring break in a four-issue miniseries.
In Guanacaste, five Costa Ricans who lost their legs in accidents found their lives changed by an international network of committed people and organizations who guided them on the path to beautiful, superior new prosthetic limbs.
Just before midnight on Friday, October 16, 1998, police from Britain’s Scotland Yard entered a room in a small, private hospital in London and arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. General Pinochet was recovering from back surgery, but the ramifications of his arrest would shake not only his world, but the way the entire world would come to view human rights prosecutions. Today, in this special section of The Tico Times, we commemorate the anniversary of that world-changing arrest with a series of articles.
If you have a fondness for Saturday morning cartoons, “Juan Vainas” is incredibly funny. The play is a continuous stream of slapstick and verbal hijinks, like an Abbott and Costello comedy set in turn-of-the-century Costa Rica.
“If it doesn’t start to rain more soon, it likely would mean that next year’s rainy season will be delayed,” said Juan Diego Naranjo, a meteorologist with the IMN. “You could say that this indicates the dry season next year will be extended.”
Thanks to “BicipúbliCartago,” a joint project between the Municipality of Cartago and the Dutch Embassy, the city has now received 100 new bicycles available for public use. While the “ride share” concept is extremely popular in Europe and increasingly common in the United States, BicipúbliCartago is the first example in Costa Rica.
