No menu items!

COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER

spot_img

The Tico Times

10078 POSTS
0 COMMENTS

Contemporary Dance Festival opens at the Melico Salazar

The 13th National Festival of Contemporary Dance presents the works of numerous Costa Rican dance companies over the course of five days.

Costa Rica’s Keylor Navas up for challenge after Madrid move

Navas is tipped to get the nod ahead of club legend Iker Casillas to start in goal for Carlo Ancelotti's side. The team's third goalie Diego López looks likely to be forced out.

‘Nabucco’ brings Verdi’s epic to life

The 140 artists involved in the National Lyric Company’s production of “Nabucco,” Giuseppi Verdi's epic opera, form a tidal wave of talent and coordination; the production is spectacular in every sense of the word.

Awaiting a court decision, anti-GMO activists gain symbolic ground

Awaiting a decision on legal reforms from the courts, anti-GMO activists in Costa Rica have taken the fight over transgenic crops to a grassroots level. The latest symbolic victory for those opposed to genetically modified organisms happened on July 25, when President Luis Guillermo Solís signed a decree naming native corn as cultural heritage, a designation managed by the Culture Ministry.

UPDATE: Human rights group founder says AP misrepresented work in Cuba for USAID

A Costa Rican human rights organization founder accused The Associated Press of “misrepresenting” his group’s humanitarian work in Cuba for the United States Agency for International Development and claimed that an AP reporter “extorted” interviews from his staff and broke his agreement with a source, in a statement Monday.

Hot wheels, cold cash: Police discover more than $1 million hidden in truck tires

In the driver’s compartment police also discovered the driver's 29-year-old son, who abandoned a truck he was driving in El Salvador on Friday with 102 kilograms of cocaine.

Cristian Gamboa becomes third Tico in English Premier League after signing with West Brom

Gamboa, 24, played in all five matches as Costa Rica made a stunning run to the quarterfinals in Brazil before losing on penalties to the Netherlands.

Costa Rica Drug Traffickers lure Coastal Fishermen

In three separate seizures along Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast from Playas del Coco to Golfito, authorities arrested the 11 fishermen who were transporting 4.1 metric...

Mexico has key role in confronting surge of Central American migrants

By the time Jhonny Torres reached the tent-camp migrant shelter here on the northern outskirts of Mexico City, he'd been held up five times by armed gangs, including a group of commandos claiming to be members of the Zetas cartel. But he never encountered any Mexican police or soldiers.

Costa Rica calls on UN Security Council to address fighting in Gaza

Foreign Minister Manuel González repeated Costa Rica’s desire for an immediate ceasefire and urged the United Nations Security Council to take responsibility for ending the violence in the Gaza Strip, during a press conference at the Casa Amarilla Monday afternoon.

Latest news

- Advertisement -spot_img