Costa Rica News

The enduring ability to inspire wonder and awe, and to weather the rigors of time, Mother Nature and human politics these are the qualities that elevate an engineering feat to landmark status.

Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan issued a temporary cease trade order this week against Risk Capital International, Risk CapitalFX International, Magnus Carlson and Matthew Cannon, the authority said in a press release Thursday.

Reports are coming out of Costa Rica that the country is about to have its very own Disney theme park in the near future.

December 5th, 2013 A group which called itself Patrulla 1856 before recently changing its name to the Frente PatriA3tico para la Defensa Nacional has released a series of photos of its militia participating in infrantry and combat training at one of the group's camps.

Costa Rican authorities have seized more than 8,000 firearms since President Laura Chinchilla took office in May 2010, the Security Ministry announced Tuesday.

December 4th, 2013 The Disney Corporation has acquired land near Liberia, Guanacaste, on which the company intends to build Latin America's first Disney theme park.

As an owner at the Neptune House, and an annual visitor to Block Island and fan of The Block Island Times , I couldn't pass up an opportunity to share this photo I took in Playa Jaco, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, in the Maxi-Pali grocery store.

Local authorities' emphasis on healthcare investment should translate into higher consumption of medicines.

Maersk Line will launch a new weekly intra-America service connecting the U.S., including Puerto Rico, with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.

December 3rd, 2013 In a 38-16 vote, lawmakers approved a bill that will provide legislators 46 paid days off beginning December 23rd.

Answer: Costa Rica, northwest of San Jose. Arenal was formed about 7,000 years ago.

The enduring ability to inspire wonder and awe, and to weather the rigors of time, Mother Nature and human politics these are the qualities that elevate an engineering feat to landmark status.

An investigation of the 1984 bombing that killed three journalists and four Nicaraguan rebels at a news conference has been closed after officials determined the only suspect died more than two decades ago, Costa Rica's attorney general said Monday.

Costa Rica's state-run refining company Recope launched two tenders to buy 800,000 barrels of fuel oil and one 20,000 barrel cargo of MTBE, to be received between December 2013 and July 2014 at Port Caldera and Moin terminals, according to documents seen by Reuters on Monday.

December 2nd, 2013 Thanks to a new article in Costa Rica's Narcotics Law, women convicted of bringing drugs into the country's prisons will face lighter sentences, according to the Ministry of Justice.

December 2nd, 2013 The United States has signed agreements with the Cayman Islands and Costa Rica to counter offshore tax evasion, the US Treasury Department announced Friday.

The enduring ability to inspire wonder and awe, and to weather the rigors of time, Mother Nature and human politics these are the qualities that elevate an engineering feat to landmark status.

A Colombian jurist has been named the new President of Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the court announced Thursday afternoon.

The United States has signed agreements with the Cayman Islands and Costa Rica to help those countries' banks comply with an anti-tax evasion law starting next year, the Treasury Department said on Friday.

Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council . This Op-Ed was adapted from one that appeared on the NRDC blog Switchboard .