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On Monday, September 28 for unknown reasons a pick-up truck caught fire on Route 27 Santa Ana – San Jose near the toll booths. The incident occurred after the pick up truck had passed the toll booth, the fire started, the driver got out of the car, and the driver of a tank truck stopped to offer help, however, the truck starts rolling in reverse and out of control towards the toll booths. Th...
The security cameras of a store in Alajuela, Costa Rica captured the exact moment in which a baby stroller rolls out of control across the parking lot of the commercial center and heads towards the main road where it impacts a bus on the side. The footage shows the moment when the woman in charge of the baby opens the door to her car leaving the stroller to the side, she then proceeds to put so...
Seven members of the same family died in a car accident that took place in Cartago. The accident involved a van and a police truck. The police car was on its way to a disturbance call that had been reported in the area of Llanos de Santa Lucia when it crashed into the van that was going across and intersection. The victims are a 70-year-old male, three women ages 43, 32, and 30, a 16-year-ol...
Costa Rica based cutting-edge provider of 3D design and rendering services 3D.CR (www.3D.CR) recently announced its expanded offering of dynamic 3D animations, walk-throughs, and fly-overs with the release of the new 2020 REEL summarizing the enhanced capabilities. For year's architectural 3D rendering is the smart, contemporary choice for developers, architects, designers, general contractors,...
Coursera, an online education platform, will team up with Costa Rica over the next 6 months to train 50,000 people in the strategic and technical skills required for Industry 4.0. This initiative is one part of a reskilling and retooling strategy that Costa Rica currently has underway, which defines three main areas for talent development: career management, soft skills, and technical skills. T...
Costa Rican Nadia Reiman has won the first ever Pulitzer Prize given for audio journalism for her ground-breaking ‘’The Out Crowd” episode of the radio show "This American Life". Her work was described by the New York Times as “revelatory, intimate journalism that illuminates the personal impact of the Trump administration's Remain in Mexico policy”, with heart-breaking details of life in refugee ...
In this challenging time of people having to hunker down in their homes due to the novel coronavirus, Netflix has served up a delightfully weird true story of Joe Exotic a outrageously flaboyant big cat animal park owner and Carole Baskin an American woman who allegedly killed her husband before he could leave her to move to Costa Rica. Carole's late husband Don Lewis has never been found and no b...
Costa Rican authorities seized a shipment of cocaine that was thrown into the ocean. The operation was carried out Friday May 1st as part of a joint patrolling between the Costa Rican and the USA coast guard services 72 nautical miles south of Quepos in the province of Puntarenas. In total the authorities confiscated 433 packages of cocaine with an approximate weight of 1 kilogram with a street...
The Rincon de la Vieja Volcano located in Guanacaste, Costa Rica registered a moderate eruption Sunday April 19th at 10:16 a.m. with a column of gas that reached 1,500 meters (4,921 feet) above the crater. According to the report by the National Emergency Commission (CNE) the explosion was hydrothermal and as a product of the same materials such as mud, rocks, sediments, where ejected from the ...
UPDATED 3/27/20 Source: US Embassy San Jose "Costa Rica has now announced 263 cases of COVID-19 in the country. As messaged previously, we urge all U.S. citizens who wish to depart Costa Rica to do so now. U.S. citizens who remain in Costa Rica should be prepared to remain in Costa Rica for an indefinite period. For the latest list on the very limited flights into/out of San Jose and Liberia...
Video Credit and thanks to Adam Baker and Namu Travel Group. ***Repost from the President of Costa Rica*** We all know that small businesses, restaurants, workers in the service industry, etc. have been affected economically by covid-19. The entire travel industry; airlines, hotels, tour companies, travel agencies, entire countries, and everyone in between were immediately impacted by cov...
On Monday, the Costa Rican Minister of Health announced that he has activated protocols to combat the new coronavirus, known internationally as COVID-19. The virus has appeared so far in countries such as China, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Iran, United States, Canada and Italy. The first Latin American COVID-19 patient was identified on Monday, a Brazilian who contracted the virus in Italy. Ther...
Verba Shadow the Ukrainian group that presented their show on America’s Got Talent, will be in Costa Rica March 21 and 22 presenting at the Melico Salazar Theater in San José. Verba Shadow is the first in Ukraine to create a shadow show, “Shadow is the universal language of communication. Visualizing various subjects - taken from life or existing in books and films - the actors manage to transf...
Once again, Costa Rica will be represented this year in the annual Rose Parade that takes place every January 1st in Pasadena, California. This year the Municipal Band of Zarcero has the honor or representing the country and Latin America in this renown event. In total, 250 young members directed by Elesban Rodríguez will be traveling to Pasadena California, "In Pasadena we want to showcase to ...
On Sunday, November 17th, Fox TV aired episode #669 of the famous cartoon family The Simpsons, in “Livin’ La Pura Vida”, in which the entire Simpson family and members of their Springfield community visit Costa Rica on vacation. Amazing. La Nacion newspaper commented about the episode, saying that it “without a doubt, positions tourist information (about Costa Rica) before the eyes of the world.” ...
As part of a campaign to protect the Cocos Island UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society partnered with Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment to collect and transport 34 tons of marine pollution, illegal shark finning long lines, and other confiscated fishing gear, which had been accumulating on the remote volcanic island of Cocos for over 25 years. For a one-time project,...
Next Sunday, November 10, Hawaiiian singer Jack Johnson and his band will offer a live performance for the first time in Costa Rica, at the Coca Copa Amphitheater at Parque Viva, the concert will begin at 7 p.m. “Jack Johnson grew up surfing and playing his guitar in Hawaii and his debut album Brushfire Fairytales was released in 2001, since then he has released another 6 studio albums and 2 li...
Jamaican police reported earlier this month that the leaders of several criminal gangs in Jamaica have left their little island, and relocated to Costa Rica where they are allegedly living quite the high life, while continuing their dangerous criminal activities. The OIJ (Organismo de Investigacion) has been analyzing this situation over the last five years – especially the unusual number of Jamai...
Costa Rica wants to become the first country to regulate the incidence of cruel or inadequate selfies involving wild animals, this through the initiative #stopanimalselfies. A study carried out by World Animal Protection (WAP) in 2017, placed Costa Rica in the seventh place of the world in the number of inadequate photographs and selfies involving wild animals. In response to this and committed...
This is a big year for Costa Rica’s one and only Isla del Coco, Cocos Island National Park, as it received this week the “Blue Park” award for its condition as Global Ocean Refuge in the Gold category of the Marine Conservation Institute which promotes Marine Protected Areas that comply with certain standards of management and effectiveness. Cocos Island was nominated as a candidate back in Jul...
Do you feel that your organization needs to be more innovative? Are you facing challenges that are not easily addressed through conventional problem-solving approaches? Are you finding that planning for the future, both personally and professionally, is more complex than before? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, you may want to consider approaching your professional and personal...
Gary Krause was filming a video in front of the Plaza de la Democracia in San Jose, Costa Rica when he accidentally caught police chasing and catching a man. The video was being shot by Krause, a native of England who lives in the United States, for a religious show that airs in the United States, as he is giving a little information on the National Museum, in the background police appear chas...
Glamping “glamorous camping” is becoming more and more popular specially among young travelers looking for an experience that bring them closer to nature. Costa Rica has several options for glamping and luxury glamping, one of this last lodging options opened doors just close to a year back for private groups, but is now open to the public, Kinkára is part of the Coyuga Collection Hotels. The b...
Photo: Archive Once again, Costa Rican Penitentiary Police captured a cat smuggling cell phones into prison, this time at the Center of Institutional Attention Jorge Arturo Montero (La Reforma). The cat had a harness and attached to it a bag with two mobile phones its respective chargers and three sim cards. An officer first noticed the cat as it entered module B of the prison, however, o...
Costa Rican athlete Andrea Vargas made her dream come true and made the country proud by winning the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdle competition at the Pan-American Games that are taking place in Lima, Perú. The 21-year-old, who has a 4 year-old daughter, and is a native of the city of Puriscal, trains daily under the direction of her mother. Vargas stopped the clock at 12.82, runner up w...
Sunday, June 23 2019, Costa Rica will celebrate the tenth edition of the Pride Parade, a colorful event that celebrates the differences in sexual preferences and promotes tolerance and respect of the members of the LGBTI community. 24 floats, music, dance, shows, international guests, are just part of the event that will once again take the streets of San Jose, starting at Centro Colón in Paseo...
A Mexican with strong ties to Costa Rica and a 20-million dollar bounty on his head, Rafael Caro Quintero, is now #10 on the FBI’s Most Wanted List – and may well be hiding in Costa Rica where he has strong connections and many cartel friends. Quintero is wanted for the murder of Drug Enforcement Agent (DEA) Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, in July of 1985, as well as charges of drug trafficking, kidnappi...
Photo Credit: WSL / TIM HAIN Costa Rican surfer Leilani McGonagle took the first place of the Krui Pro 2019, WQS 1000 points in Indonesia. McGonagle got the win with a score of 14.84 (8.67 one of the highest scored waves in the competition and 6.17), beating Hawaiian contender Keala Tomoda who scored 13.76. "I am shaking right now!". "I know how good Keala has been surfing all week and I ...
A mobile app to monitor waves and tides, an agreement to hire lifeguards, and a digital advertising campaign are part of the first stage of the strategy announced by the Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) to prevent drownings on beaches. The app "MIOCIMAR" (available in Play Store for Android or App Store for iOS) in English and Spanish contains seven-day forecasts of surf currents, wave forecasts...
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Costa Rica has contributed yet another amazing animal to the field of Herpetology – a river anole lizard that can remain underwater for up to sixteen minutes, seemingly by using an air bubble on the top of its head to refresh the air in its lungs. Two scientists were filming anole lizards hurling themselves off of rocks and branches in Coto Brus, when they realized the little guys were staying un...
Perez Zeledon, Costa Rica (April 5, 2019) Crazy Jungle Love, the shocking tale of love and despair based on the true story of American millionaire John Felix Bender’s exploits in the jungles of Costa Rica, is now available on Amazon and Kindle. Written by journalist Carol Blair Vaughn, Crazy Jungle Love makes use of Vaughn’s intimate knowledge of La...
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The Sloth Institute of Costa Rica (TSI) is the headquarters for the cutest animals on the planet. They were founded in 2014 with the mission of “enhancing the welfare of captive and wild sloths through research and education.” They are a non-profit institution based in Manuel Antonio, supported completely by donations. TSI is truly leading the world in sloth research, especially the study of 3-toe...
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The digital technology company, Akamai, inaugurated this Monday, Match 18 its new facility in Costa Rica, located in Roble Corporate Center. Here, it will gather all its operations in the country as part of the expansion of its services, which are exported from Costa Rica to the rest of the world. Akamai, established in Costa Rica in 2012, now has 300 employees. It foresees to increase its payr...
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A provoked fire that started on Saturday has affected 250 hectares of the Terraba-Sierpe Wetlands in Osa, Puntarenas. Forest of raffia palm, and native Symphonia globulifera tree has been consumed and many animal species have been affected; the strong winds of the past days and the accumulation of vegetation in areas of the wetlands complicated the work of the firefighters. The wetlands are...
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