U.S. Army photograph by Sgt. 1st Class Anna Doo, New Mexico National Guard Public Affairs NCO Story by Sergeant First Class Anna Doo of the 200th Public Affairs Detachment, New Mexico National Guard CUAJINIQUIL, Costa Rica - In a place where bicycle-powered transportation is the norm and a hammock sways in the soft breeze at every home, the "Pura Vida" relaxed lifestyle permeates all aspect...

File image Pointe-Claire, Quebec (marketpressrelease) September 4, 2015 - 1010 103, a Montreal, Canada, US and international long distance calling service provider, recently announced lower international phone rates being offered to call various Central American countries observing their Independence Days. The President of 10 10 103, Alejandro Bitar, said, "Our lower international phone calli...

Tourism Police Assisting Backpackers. Source: Fuerza Publica British Embasy Media Release - Glass fragments. Chemical composition. Blood patterns. Conclusive evidence. It’s a Tuesday afternoon at the Centro Cultural Británico in San José and police officers taking their weekly English lesson are furiously transcribing the key phrases that the English teacher has scribbled on the whiteboard:...

Sea Bird Sailing Excursions, a renowned tour operator based in Costa Rica's Gold Coast, is currently offering its business assets for sale. This is an exciting business opportunity for anyone interested in profiting from the lucrative tourism industry in the province of Guanacaste. This well-established business is currently located in Playas del Coco, less than 30 minutes away from the Liberia...

Ann Patton Bender uses a cane to arrive in court. Source: Carol Vaughn September 4, 2015, San Isidro de El General - Final arguments will be heard in the murder trial of Ann Patton Bender on Friday, September 4th, 2015, beginning at 7:30 AM, in the Poder Judicial Courthouse in San Isidro de El General, Perez Zeledon. The trial is public and open to all interested parties. Ann Bender stands ...

Adult film actress Mia Malkova in Costa Rica. Source: Holly Randall Tumblr In March 2014, a renowned photographer and film director from the United States was plying her erotic trade in Costa Rica. Holly Randall was photographing pornographic model Mia Malkova at a waterfall, and the photographer shared her experience about working in Costa Rica on her Tumblr social media page: Finally my sho...

Source: Facebook In the last 48 hours, the Mayors of two significant municipalities in Costa Rica have been suspended from their leadership positions. The political leaders in question are Mayor Nestor Mattis Williams of Limon and Mayor Roberto Thompson of Alajuela. As reported by The Costa Rica Star earlier this week, Roberto Thompson, Mayor of the second most populous city of Costa Rica, ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Markets Group will host the 3rd Annual Private Wealth Latin America & The Caribbean Forum, the largest conference of the wealth management space. This event is a two day series of presentations, panels, roundtables and interviews on October 20th and 21st at the JW Marriott in Miami, Florida. Attendees will meet and hear from three different keynote ad...

Source: Pixabay Commons Public Domain It took more than two officers from Fuerza Publica, the national police force of Costa Rica, to take down a naked man who -for some reason- was chanting one of the many names of the chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell, at least in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic faiths. According to a news report filed by metro ...

When President Luis Guillermo Solis was on the campaign trail against former candidate Johnny Araya from the majority National Liberation Party (Spanish initials: PLN), he presented a single pronouncement on the topic of immigration: He strongly believed that employers should be responsible for handling the required paperwork to assist foreign workers get the proper visa in Costa Rica. More tha...

A well-funded online classifieds network has entered the crowded marketplace in Costa Rica with a special focus on real estate and jobs. According to a news report filed by Leo Siqueira for the Advanced Interactive Media Group, Navent has been operating in 10 Latin American nations, and it decided to enter Costa Rica last month. Navent owns the CompreoAlquile.com brand of online classifieds in ...

Source: PPG By Carolina Ruiz Vega Glidden, a painting brand of PPG Industries, the world’s leading coatings company, and El Lagar stores signed a distribution agreement in Costa Rica. "Our brand of paints and coatings is joining with another market leader, El Lagar, for distribution in Costa Rica, with the aim of further strengthening our presence in the country," said Horacio ...

An Uber driver in Bogota. Wikimedia Commons On Friday afternoon, the controversial private transportation mobile app Uber began operating in Costa Rica with a stern warning by President Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera, who explained that his administration will increase vigilance on the roadways for the purpose of catching and issuing infractions to Uber drivers. According to a news report file...

Source: Flickr Commons Four days ago, residents of a small community in the municipality of Nicoya, province of Guanacaste, were concerned about the whereabouts of a 75-year old neighbor, a Canadian expat who lived a serene life in Costa Rica. Yesterday, some of his neighbors decided that it would be prudent to force their way into the small apartment the man rented. Sadly, they found out that...

On Wednesday morning, two Sikorski UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, allegedly configured as HH-60 combat rescue aircraft for service in the United States Air Force, were seen flying over the community of La Palma, not far from Ciudad Neilly in the southern region of Costa Rica. According to a news report filed by Manuel Estrada of daily tabloid Diario Extra, the two helicopters landed on a forest cle...

Rainforest in Costa Rica Costa Rica’s path towards carbon neutrality as a nation began in earnest in 2012; during the administration of former President Laura Chinchilla, a nationwide campaign for residents of Costa Rica to get involved in the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2021 was launched. “Limpia tu huella” (clean up your carbon footprint) officially started on Monday, Mar...

Source: FlickrCC The Costa Rican movie theater chain CCM Cinemas plans to open four movie screens in Tamarindo Beach before the end of 2015. According to a news report filed by Marcos Ureña of Guanacaste online news site PrimeroEnNoticias.com, the national chain estimates that this project will cost $4 million. At this time, CCM Cinemas is not certain exactly where in Tamarindo Beach they w...

On August 20th, the Chicago Area Peace Action (CAPA) will screen the 2014 film “A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization,” produced and directed by Matthew Eddy and Michael Dreiling. The screening will include a discussion with director Matthew Eddy. A Bold Peace is described as follows:   Over 60 years ago, Costa Rica became one of the only nations in the world to disband t...

Emilio Canales Agents from the Office of Judicial Investigations (Spanish initials: OIJ) assigned to the Liberia region recently arrested three men suspected to be involved in the disappearance of an expat businessman in Costa Rica. Furthermore, the dead body of a man was found near the banks of the Colorado River near the town of Curubande, which is part of the Liberia canton of Guanacaste. ...

After Words Movie Poster Event Brite Announcement – Level 33 Entertainment is proud to announce the release of the feature film AFTER WORDS, a transformative & romantic adventure set largely in picturesque Costa Rica, starring Academy Award ® Winner Marcia Gay Harden (Fifty Shades of Grey, Pollock, Mystic River), Goya Award Winner and Platino Award Winner Óscar Jaenada (Cantinflas, Pirates...

San Jose, Aug 13 (EFE).- Clean energy sources were used to generate 100 percent of the electricity in Costa Rica for 94 straight days, breaking the old record of 75 days set between January and March of this year, the state-owned Costa Rican Electricity Institute, or ICE, said. No fossil fuels were burned between May 8 and Aug. 9 to generate electricity, cementing Costa Rica's "world leadership...

Emilio Canales Author's Note: The following letter was penned by the father and sister of an expat businessman who has gone missing in Liberia, the seat of the Guanacaste province in Costa Rica. If you know of this man's whereabouts, please refer to the contact information at the end of this article. To whom it may concern: We are writing this heartbreaking letter to all the news media o...

Costa Rica (PRWEB) August 11, 2015 -- Believe it or not, Spanish is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. While learning a new language is exciting, it can also be downright challenging to master without the proper tools in place. That’s where SpanishBackpack.com comes into play. “Our goal at SpanishBackpack.com is to provide Spanish teachers and Spanish students with a fun tool ...

Source: Netflix Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 62 million members in over 50 countries -including Costa Rica- enjoying more than 100 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. For the most part, members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected scree...

Source: UNED During a press conference that followed the delivery of a report to the United Nations, the Ombudsman of Costa Rica openly stated that our country is racist. Ombudsman Montserrat Solano explained that Costa Rica has improved in terms of racial equality, but she also added that there is a great deal of denial among many spheres of society, and that those who are the most affecte...

Immigration officers stationed at the Peñas Blancas border crossing checkpoint between Costa Rica and Nicaragua detained a male traveler from the United States on Thursday. According to a news report broadcast by national television network Teletica Channel 7, the 30-year old man was coming from Nicaragua in what seemed to be a “visa run” to extend his status as a perpetual tourist. The U.S. ma...

"Ara ambigua" by Alois Staudacher - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons A chapter in the history of how open pit mining failed to take hold in Costa Rica recently closed with the bankruptcy of Canadian firm Infinito Gold, which lodged a lawsuit against the sovereignty of our country for what they feel was a breach of contract in the infamous Crucitas case. Although t...

Pixabay Public Domain For many children in Costa Rica and around the world, the first dental appointment is an event fraught with anxiety and fear, but it does not need to be that way. Dental care experiences can be turned into positive experiences for a child, but this requires the collaboration of parents and dentists. A child's fright of a dental visit is not unfounded; it is essentially...

Source: Flickr Commons A woman who has not yet been identified is believed to be the seventh victim of a serial killer who seems to be operating in the southern suburbs of the capital city of Costa Rica. According to metro reporter Manuel Estrada of daily tabloid Diario Extra, the latest victim was found naked and bruised in an empty lot in the Sagrada Familia district, a working-class neig...

Young Facebook users in Costa Rica enjoy certain protections with regard to keeping their social media activity hidden from parents. That much is granted by Article 25 of the Childhood and Adolescence Code. Such is not the case in Colombia, where the Supreme Court recently issued an opinion that gives parents the right to monitor the Facebook accounts of their children. In Costa Rica, a legisla...

Source: Naturewalk PRLog - Aug. 4, 2015 - JACO, Costa Rica -- Naturewalk Costa Rica has launched a new contemporary one bedroom Casita starter home and a new 3 bedroom Premier home design. To celebrate the launch of these homes Naturewalk is including two homes and two multipurpose agricultural and development lots in the Naturewalk Summer Sale 2015. The lots are available at a discount of ...

Flickr Commons The most iconic brand of sporting equipment in Major League Baseball (MLB) will trim down its operations in Costa Rica. Rawlings, the official provider of baseballs to the MLB since the late 1970s, has announced that it will shut down its uniform manufacturing operations in Costa Rica and will move them to El Salvador, where cheaper labor and lower overhead expenses await. Ac...

Wikimedia Commons San Jose, Costa Rica, FIVB Media Release– Thirty-two physical education teachers from Costa Rica participated in the FIVB VCP Young Players course under the guidance of FIVB instructor Miguel Holz Bodlaender of Chile, from July 27 to 31. The project was initiated by the national federation of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Mnistry of Education (MEP)%2...

Father and son at the beach in Jaco. "There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nearly two months ago, deep heartbreak struck Britt Nelson at his home in Jaco Beach: The hardest part about Coady’s death, for me, was finding him dead in his bed the morning of June 8. He was just lying on his side with his head on his pillow. The TV was still on. He ...

For many decades, hundreds of military veterans from the United States have made Costa Rica their second home, and many of them have experienced the horrors of war. In Costa Rica, they hope to start a new life and alleviate their traumatic combat experience; this is a primary goal that they hope to accomplish even if they do not intend to live out the rest of their lives in our country. Costa ...

Santa Cruz, Guanacaste. Source: Wikimedia Commons Economic hardship, relationship conflicts and family turmoil led three men from the Santa Cruz, province of Guanacaste, to take their own lives within 24 hours. According to a news report filed by Marco Ureña of Guanacaste online news website Primero en Noticias, all three men chose hanging as their means of suicide.   The first repo...

Source: Comex Visual cleanliness must be your ally when choosing lighting and paint colors for your Jaco Beach condominium unit. By Carolina Ruiz When you are dealing with small living spaces, there is nothing better than applying the proper measure of light and color to create comfort and space where it does not exist. Furniture and decorative elements can be key allies as well, as long...

ASPEN, Colo., July 29, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Anne Welsh McNulty and the Aspen Institute today announced the eighth annual John P. McNulty Prize laureates, a group of extraordinary leaders who bring the spirit of innovation that characterized their success in the private sector to address some of the most intractable problems facing our world today. The 2015 Laureates are making a sign...

"48 Hours Mystery logo" by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia 48 HOURS: "Paradise Lost" was Saturday's #1 broadcast at 10:00 PM with the key adult news demographic and viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for July 25. 48 HOURS was also the #1 program for the night in viewers. 48 HOURS (R) (10:00-11:00 PM) delivered 4.16 million viewers and a 1.0/04 with adult...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Three male suspects wearing black fatigues and armed with shotguns stormed into the Promerica Bank branch located inside the Office Depot store in the upscale community of Escazu, located in the western suburbs of the capital city of Costa Rica. According to a new report filed by metro reporter Jason Torres of online news daily Costa Rica Hoy, the suspects took 250...