This week Keylor Navas will play his first match with the Costa Rica national team since he led his country to the World Cup quarterfinals. Fans will need to wake up early to catch the friendly against Oman, with the match set for 8:30 a.m. on Friday in Sultan Qaboos Sport Complex in Sohar, Oman.
President Luis Guillermo Solís might have to add traveling-salesman-in-chief to his credentials. The Costa Rican leader announced Wednesday that he would travel to Canada to participate in the Toronto Economic Forum during the week of Oct. 26 to drum up more foreign investment for the country in his sixth trip abroad as president.
Curated by the National Theater, the new exhibit “El Teatro Nacional Visto Por Los Artistas” opened Wednesday morning. The exhibit incorporates 26 works by a variety of artists.
When cops approached the vehicle, they recognized Zelaya behind the wheel, who was known to police for having committed several robberies in Pavas. He also had two outstanding warrants and no driver’s license when police arrested him.
The National Meteorological Institute warned of heavy rain and electrical storms with gusty winds along the Pacific Coast, the Central Valley, Northern Zone and the mountains of the Caribbean during the next two days. These areas could see between 2 and 6 inches of rain by Thursday morning, according to IMN’s forecast.
Costa Rica has agreed to pay the medical bills and other compensation for some 12,000 banana workers and their relatives suffering lingering effects of exposure to pesticides in the 1960s and '70s.
Amazon Support Services Costa Rica inaugurated its fourth call center this morning and announced that it will increase its Costa Rican personnel by nearly 50 percent by the end of 2014, hiring 1,000 new employees.
Costa Rica’s GDP growth for 2015 is forecast at 4.3 percent, up from 3.7 percent in 2014. While Costa Rica outperformed many of its Central American neighbors, Nicaragua and Panama are set to pull ahead in 2015 with 4.4 and 6.2 percent growth, respectively.
The joint operation between Tourist Police, Judicial Investigation Police, the Coast Guard and the Health Ministry responded to complaints from businesses and tourists about aggressive unlicensed vendors, rampant drug use and robberies.
NEW YORK — Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, died from the virus Wednesday while in isolation at a Dallas hospital, ending a case that helped bring into sharp focus the nation's risk from the disease.
