Costa Rica News

Five students at The University of Texas at Tyler will participate in a joint community service project in Costa Rica, UT Tyler President Rodney Mabry announced.

Construction Finally Rebounds from Recession Finally, after at least three years in doldrums, the construction trades in the country are apparently rebounding from the worldwide recession.

Last Tuesday, President Laura Chinchilla and Security Minister Mario Zamora signed a pact in the Casa Presidencial with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to share information on airline and ship passengers.

Guatemalan President Otto Perez's bold challenge to the U.S.-led war on drugs has caused a few ripples of support in Central America, and even more waves of discontent in Washington, D.C. After two weeks of facilitating a neighborhood chat on the need to consider alternatives to the conventional drug war-and finding unlikely support from Costa Rica ... (more)

Next week, ICANN will meet in San Jose, Costa Rica . While we've only just barely seen the schedule , it's clear we'll be hearing a lot about WHOIS.

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon pose for a photograph prior to a meeting at the Los Pinos presidential palace in Mexico City .

Costa Rica's Antismoking Law To Greatly Affect "Casual" Smokers One in six Costa Ricans smoke, according to the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social .

The two new mobile networks in Costa Rica have signed up around 500,000 customers since they launched last December.

Costa Rican producers last year shipped some 105 million boxes of bananas, each box carrying slightly more than 19 kilos of the fruit.

NFL Player Attacks CM Punk Over Twitter Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 03.04.2012 Shawn Merriman isn't a fan... - Shawn Merriman has gone after CM Punk over Twitter again.

I always enjoy a programme where I learn something - and I'm most grateful to John for letting me know about the world's biggest miniature railway exhibition, close to the main station in beautiful Hamburg http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com/exhibit/, and to Tom for the very clear warning to TELL COSTA RICA WOMAN NOT TO COLLECT CAR FROM AIRPORT SAN ... (more)

Helicopter sent by Guatemala will be able to withstand high winds The forest fire in the Chirripo national park continues as more than 250 firefighters continue to battle the blaze, or at least working to control its spread.

An article published this week by the news service Agence France Presse quoted the United Nations as viewing the threat to Central America as "alarming." Although the threat of narcotics cartels concerns local officials, Costa Rica is only mentioned once in the article.

Electing a woman as head of state-pretty much anywhere in the world-is a newsmaker.

The peanuts were found to have high levels of aflatoxin contamintion according to studies by the Laboratorio del Centro de Investigacion en Granos y Semillas , de la Universidad de Costa Rica , and the chili peppers, well, were admitted to being smuggled in.

The dying down of winds allowed use of helicopter to dump water on fire The decrease in high winds, allowed a helicopter to the most critical areas of the fire that consumed more than 120 hectares of Chirripo National Park.

Presidenta says she will abide by court order not sign the bill into law For the first time in Costa Rica's history the Sala Constitucional has requested a review of the bill after it has been approved by the Legislative Assembly.

Vice President Joe Biden heads to Latin America this Sunday amid unprecedented pressure from political and business leaders to talk about something U.S. officials have no interest in debating: decriminalizing drugs.

The 72-year-old Costa Rica Country Club, the oldest golf club in the Central American nation, has been awarded the GEO Certifieda ecolabel for the way the ten-hole course has used scientific research to measure precisely how much resources are used to maintain the facility, so that it does not waste water, chemicals and so on.

North Palm Beach, FL - March 1, 2012 - Since Fall 2011, Driftwood Hospitality Management has added nine domestic hotels to its portfolio.