Back in August Yoka's plans were revealed, her next goal was to go after another world title in a different weight division, however, for different reasons the fight that was expected to take place in September was postponed,  the contract is now signed and the fight is set for December 1st in Japan. Costa Rican Yokasta Valle is the current Light-Mini Flyweight Female World Champion (102 lbs) o...

Once again Costa Rica is featured in National Geographic Magazine as one of the happiest countries in the world. The article, by Dan Buettner, is featured in the November 2017 issue of the famous magazine, is titled “These are the World’s Happiest Places”, and continues: What do Denmark, Costa Rica, and Singapore have in common? Their people feel secure, have a sense of purpose, and enjoy lives t...

KidZania is one of the fastest growing kids’ entertainment franchises with 24 locations in 20 countries and 11 new locations under development; it consists on an interactive kids’ city which combines fun and learning and has different options for young children and teens up to 14 years of age. KidZania was created in Mexico and the franchise is being brought to Costa Rica by Cuestamoras Urbanis...

The US Ambassador to Costa Rica, Sharon Day, introduced herself through a video published on Facebook, Day revealed she fell in love with the country during a family trip where she visited the country to enjoy its nature and biodiversity. Day was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas but lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the past 25 years. She has been part of the U.S. Republican party for ...

Feature Image Photo Credit: Accidentes de Costa Rica / Facebook The afternoon of this Saturday, October 14 a multiple collision between three vehicles and a truck on Route 27 (San José-Caldera) caused a car to catch fire while the driver, a 54-year-old woman was not able to escape the burning vehicle. The accident took place close to 1 p.m. and occurred between Atenas and Orotina, in the roa...

Cirque du Soleil has confirmed through a press release that Costa Rica will be one of the stops where they will be presenting their show Sép7imo Día – No Descansaré (Seventh Day – I won’t rest) inspired by the music and lives of Argentine rock trio Soda Stereo. The show made its debut this 2017 in Argentina and is the first Cirque du Soleil production based on a Latin band; the entertainment co...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Today’s late-night TV comedians are no longer funny – none of them. If you laugh along with the likes of Bill Maher, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Handler, Seth Myers, Jon Stewart, Kathy Griffin or Stephen Colbert you are not one of us. Every weekd...

Photo Credit: Interamericana Sur /Jessica Webb Castillo As The Costa Rica Star has reported, many communities in Costa Rica have been affected by Tropical Storm Nate, with the provinces of Guanacaste and Puntarenas reporting the largest number of incidents. In Miramar, Puntarenas, according to a report by daily paper La Nación, the Aranjuez River devastated the town of Bajo Caliente, where t...

Tropical Storm Nate caused a lot of damage in Costa Rica, here we recount in number and images some of the situations currently affecting the country: • 10 People Dead (According to the last report received by authorities Oct 6th 2 p.m.) • 30 People Reported Missing and several more trapped • 7200 People In 94 Shelters Around the country • 27 Elderly People in Shelter after Elderly Home Floo...

The Costa Rican Government declared three days of National Mourning starting this Friday at noon due to the emergency caused by Tropical Storm Nate in the country and that took the life of eight people. According to the official decree, October 6, 7 and 8 will be of National Mourning, during these days the National Flag in all government offices will be lowered to half-mast from sunrise to suns...

Update at 10:30 a.m., Monday Oct. 2: The death toll in the shooting has risen to 58, according to national U.S. media. Las Vegas, Nevada was the scene last night of the deadliest mass killing in modern U.S. history. More than 50 concertgoers were killed and hundreds were injured late Sunday at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The gunfire began around 10 p.m. on the south end of La...

The Siberian Virtuosi Orchestra a state ensemble of violinists from the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), will be offering a presentation at the Melico Salazar Theater in Costa Rica October 7th starting at 7 p.m. The repertoire will include famous pieces by Mozart, Bach, Rossini, Vivaldi, Brahms and Dinicu. This Orchestra was founded in 1994 and continues to gain popularity worldwide; it has offe...

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Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica registered important eruptions of gases and ashes that have reached up to 800 meters above the crater and 4,140 meters above the sea level (13,579.2 ft.). The first eruption of importance took place at 5:30 a.m. this Thursday morning, and reached 500 meters above the crater, a second and stronger eruption occurred at 8:25 a.m. of 700 meters above the crater and t...

The trailer of the movie “Man of Faith” based on the life of Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas was released today in a local press conference. Man of Faith begins with the voice over of ESPN’ sports commentator David Faitelson: “Today is a historic day for Costa Rica. Today Keylor Navas shapes up to be one of the best goalkeepers in the world. For the first time a Tico wears the Real Madri...

President of the Criminal Cassation Board and Coordinator of the Gender Commission, Costa Rican Judge Doris Arias Madrigal participated last week in the launch of the social medica campaign "Métele un gol al machismo," promoted by the Justice and Gender Foundation of the United Nations Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention and Treatment of Offenders. The campaign translates to "Score a ...

Shnit, the Worldwide Shortfilmfestival Playground, is celebrating its 14th edition, and it takes place in 8 cities in four different continents simultaneously, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bern (Switzerland); El Cairo (Egypt); Capetown (South Africa); Moscow (Russia), Tokyo (Japan), and Bangkok (Thailand) and San José (Costa Rica); this year it will be held from the 18th to the 22nd of October. ...

The Festival ART&TUR, International Tourism Film Festival of the wellness tourism fair Termatalia recognizes the best tourism audiovisual productions worldwide and in this year’s edition Costa Rica was recognized as the Best Production in the competition with the video of new international image “Costa Rica, My Choice, Naturally”. Termatalia is considered the world’s most important wellness...

A documentary by Costa Rican filmmaker and producer, Miguel Gómez, aims to highlight the perils of irregular migration by focusing on the Mesoamerican corridor. From January - July of this year, the United Nations Migration Agency (IOM) registered 230 deaths of such migrants attempting to cross from Mexico into the United States. By recounting the true story of members of a Costa Rican regga...

Just 11 days ago, on September 8th the city of Oaxaca on Mexico’s southern coast was affected by an 8.2 earthquake, which caused the death of almost 100 people, and left many buildings with structural damage. Today, September 19, 2017, at 12:14 p.m. Costa Rica time, 1:14 p.m. Mexico time, another earthquake initially reported of a 7.1 magnitude and later confirmed as having a 7.4 magnitude shoo...

Landslides and floods were the result of the rains this Saturday in Costa Rica. Route 27 (San José- Caldera, Puntarenas) was one of the most affected areas, with floods in several sectors, in the sector between Atenas and Orotina material was falling on the road and videos taken by users showed incredible “waterfalls” in the area; this situation caused traffic jams and a couple of car accidents...

Nayara Hotel Spa and Gardens is considered one of the best hotels in La Fortuna , Costa Rica, and in 2016 it was named by TripAdvisor as the best luxury hotel in the world, while Travel & Leisure Magazine placed it among the best 5 hotels in Central America; innovating and offering new options to its clients is part of what makes this hotel stand out. Nayara Resort recently incorporated a n...

Apple recently announces the launching of new smartphones, which include the iPhone 8 and 8Plus, the iPhone X in commemoration of the 10 years of iPhone and the third generation of Apple Watch. The iPhone 8 and 8 plus will arrive to Costa Rica in the month of October and will be available for sale at the iCon stores and Claro Costa Rica offices, while Movistar and Kölbi have not confirmed the d...

September and October are great months to travel to the South Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, Puerto Viejo, Punta Uva, Puerto Vargas, Manzanillo, all amazing beaches that sit a short drive away from each other, surrounded by wonderful nature and wildlife. The South Caribbean is charming, full of color and culture, but if there’s one thing you won’t find here is a big resort, and this is actually...

Fair Play Labs, Journey Animation and Headless Chicken Games are three Costa Rican videogames companies that are participating in the External Development Summit (XDS) that is taking place in Vancouver, Canada. “The External Development Summit is the only annual international games industry event held in Canada with a primary focus on external development of art, animation, audio, software engi...

The following video was done as part of the joint taskscarried out between GasLab of the University of Costa Rica and the National University's Volcanology and Seismology Research Institute (Ovsicori) with the purpose of measuring the gas expelled by the Poás Volcano in Costa Rica. The footage is from August 29th and it shows the non-stop degasification with a column of water vapor and magmatic...

Hotel Rancho Hermanos López, is a unique hotel in Costa Rica that combines comfort, fun and horses. Located in Santa Clara, San Carlos, Alajuela, this is a perfect place for a one-day trip or a fun getaway. The ranch breeds pure-blood Ibero-American and Costa Rican Paso Fino Horses which are the main attraction of visitors. Tropical gardens, privacy, security, pool, wet bar, kids’ playground...

This is raw footage of yesterday's initial rescue efforts of an aircraft accident near San José, Costa Rica which has claimed the lives of two of the six people on board, including American expat, Randall Lindner. The footage is courtesy of the Spanish-language Costa Rican newspaper La Prensa Libre.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4VfAt8yjU&feature=youtu.be  ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  Hot-shot political commentator Tomi Lahren has entered the national media arena. So has White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. These two women are making waves in similar ways. Fox News announced Sept. 30 the 25-year-old Lahren will join ...

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Photo Credit: AccuWeather Hurricane Irma Yesterday it was just a tropical storm, but Irma has rapidly strengthened and is now a category 2 hurricane, still located far in the Atlantic west of Cabo Verde and at the time it poses NO threat to land according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The update provided by the NHC reads: 1100 AM AST (1500 UTC), the center of Hurricane Irma was ...

As The Costa Rica Star had reported back on July 28th, former ambassador to the United States in Costa Rica, Stafford Fitzgerald Haney will be part of the “celebrities” that will compete in season four of the T.V. dancing competition “Dancing With The Stars Costa Rica”. 48-year-old Haney will have professional dancer and Salsa world champion Lucía Jiménez as his partner on the dance floor. I...

The weigh-in ceremony for Mayweather vs McGregor was completed today with Mayweather coming in at 149.5 lbs while Conor McGregor marked 153 lbs. In an MGM Grand full of McGregor fans, the Irish MMA star came in looking as he usually does, cocky and confident, he pumped his chest after he made weight, screamed a few things on Mayweather's face and left the stage saying, Floyd was in the worse sh...

Model Leonora Jimenez in a gown by Costa Rican Designer Rob Chamaeleo 26-year-old Costa Rican designer Rob Chamaeleo received an invitation to participate in the World Fashion Week in Malaysia, an event considered the maximum global platform for fashion professionals. Chamaeleo participated recently in the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week San José, and it was because of his participation in this ...

Mexican actress Salma Hayek who was vacationing in Costa Rica last week, made an appearance at the Jimmy Kimmel show and shared anecdotes of their experience in the country. Hayek, along with her husband, French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault and daughter Valentina Paloma spent time in Santa Teresa de Cobano, Puntarenas, and shared some fun moments of her vacation on her Instagram; her expe...

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Vacationing in Costa Rica is wonderful, but living in Costa Rica is definitely not stress free, just like living in any other country, everyday work problems eventually catch up with you and your health pays the price; if you’ve had a rough week take a day or two to relax in The Retreat, a wellness destination located just 30 minutes from San José. The Retreat Costa Rica is located in Altos del...

An as yet unidentified substance was used by an unidentified individual to color water in a large downtown San José, Costa Rica decorative fountain as a means of protest against environmental contamination, reported the Costa Rican digital news service Amelia Rueda this week. The act was described on social media as a protest against pollution caused by pineapple production in Costa Rica. Th...

Santa Teresa de Cóbano in Puntarenas is known as a surfer’s paradise, an ideal spot to vacation away from the big resorts of Guanacaste, one of the preferred locations for celebrities that come to Costa Rica, a remote and perfect getaway… but we certainly never consider Santa Teresa as a place of technology innovation. Silicon Paradise, is exactly that, an initiative to develop new technologica...

The Costa Rica Philharmonic Orchestra continues to sell out its concerts and win over its audience, its concert “Songs of Freedom” , a tribute to Bob Marley was a great success and therefore they will be presenting it one last time at the Coca Cola Amphitheater in Parque Viva, Saturday, September 23. The two hour show was presented for the first time in March 7, 2016 at the Melico Salazar Theat...