No menu items!

COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER

Homewomen's rights

women's rights

Tico Times Women of the Year: leaders who inspired us in 2017

From a journalist to an artist, from Nicaragua to Portugal to South Africa: we look back at some of our extraordinary interviewees this year.

Costa Rica launches plan to curb violence against women

A total of 22 public agencies, organizations and universities have pledged to adopt the plan and work with the INAMU to improve the treatment of women in Costa Rica.

Women: Do we want to stay alive?

"There’s no such thing as the weak sex. The moment to act is now."

Women leaders who’ve inspired us this year – and their secret powers

Today we celebrate those who have fought, are fighting and will fight for equality.

A message to women: ‘Don’t be the one clipping your own wings’

The Tico Times speaks with Mariana Santos, the founder of international digital media support network Chicas Poderosas.

Cynthia Castro: the Costa Rican psychologist fighting for global gender equality

Straight talk for everyone from Pope Francis, to business owners, to Costa Rican men who don't pull their weight at home. That's Cynthia Castro, a woman on a mission.
Costa Rica Travel Insurance
Costa Rica Travel Insurance
Costa Rica Furniture
Costa Rica T shirts
Costa Rica Rocking Chairs

Tropical Storm Sara Causes Severe Flooding in Honduras and Costa Rica

The United States' National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that the storm is moving at a speed of 4 km/h with maximum sustained winds of...

A Costa Rica Coffee Farm and Its Unanswered Question

"A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof" – Feodor Dostoevsky. In the early 1990s, I spent most of a year in a rural area...

Solar Panels Bring Clean Water to Costa Rica’s Nairi Awari Community

In the middle of Costa Rica's jungle, the indigenous Nairi Awari community no longer has to fetch water from the river with buckets. For...