Costa Rica News

It seems fair to say that Costa Rica will probably not have a tax plan adopted and put into practice during 2012.

The collected records have also increased the overall knowledge of plant lice from the region with more that 20%. It is a well established fact that the arthropod fauna, to which plant lice also belong, is abundantly present in the tropical regions.

After Days of Anguish, Hundreds of Costa Ricans Are Back Home Following days of anguish and uncertainty, hundreds of Costa Ricans were back home on Sunday after being "trapped" in Panamanian territory since last Tuesday.

We wonder if someone inA the film industryA knows something bad about Costa Rica that we haven't reported yet.

Seeking ways of modernizing Costa Rica's port of entry, Penas Blancas, on the Nicaraguan border, members of the Costa Rican government journeyed to Laredo, Texas, last month to possibly copy how that city does it.

My Spanish-speaking readers will enjoy these links to interviews about the Arab Spring I did last week in San Jose, Costa Rica, with the press there.

CCJ President Accuses Costa Rica Of Trying To Destroy Court In an unusual move the president of the Corte Centroamericana de Justicia - Central American Court Of Justice -Francisco Lobo Lara, accused Costa Rica in the Nicaraguan press in trying to shut down the regional body and announced a diplomatic counteroffensive.

Costa Rica's "Marriage Machine" Gets 186 Years in Prison The three-judge panel that tried and convicted lawyer/notary Kattia Salas, 41, to 186 years in prison called her "a marriage machine." She was sentenced for performing at least 31 "paper marriages" so that foreigners could get residency.

The SDN made its way into a police station in Costa Rica recently when Summit County's Jon Harrington experienced a robbery on vacation .

A group of volunteers gathers Jan. 28 after loading goods in St. Cloud to be shipped to Liberia.

Coffee continues to account for the lion's share of exports, at US$470.5mn, or 31.3% of the total.

Costa Ricans Trapped In Panama Coming Home This Weekend The 270 Costa Ricans trapped in the communities of San Felix de Chiriqui, Panama, will be returning home this weekend.

Website Allows Comparison Shopping On Sending Money To/From Costa Rica, The US and Central America Need to send money from Costa Rica to Nicaragua or from the United States Central America? A new website will help you do so and tell you the exact cost of each transfer.

Public and private schools will have less students, 12.759 fewer to be exact, at the start of the 2012 school year next week.

In a case of life imitating art, Red Deer's Jennifer Rider-Shaw is getting her big break at the Stratford Festival this summer by playing the lead role in a musical about a young woman getting her pivotal moment in the spotlight.

Children Without Borders Feb. 3 fund-raiser in Hingham helps Costa Rican children Thousands of miles away, in three clinics tucked into Costa Rica's landscape, Duxbury summer resident Dr.

Crowder Ag Students To Visit Costa Rica Neosho, Mo. - Jay Wilkins, chairman of the Crowder College Agriculture Department, summed up his feelings about his students visiting other countries.

Traffic Chief and Two Others At The MOPT Suspended Cesar Quiros, the director de Transito, Gerardo Aymerich, head of administration at the Ministerio de Obras Publicas y Transportes and Andres Bermudez, head of the Direccion General de Transito, were all suspended on Thursday following Monday's Transito warehouse theft of 215 firearms.

Pineapple plants growing in late January in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, are destined for Frontera Produce Ltd.'s packing house in Isla, Veracruz.

A Unimer poll published last Sunday in the leading Spanish-language newspaper La Nacion showed an overwhelming number of Costa Ricans reject the explanation ex-President Jose Figueres gave to a TV interviewer that the $900,000 he received from Alcatel was legitimate.