This past February 7 Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray of the Western District of North Carolina fount two United States citizens who resided in Costa Rica guilty for their roles in a $10 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the United States from call centers in Cost...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff Liberals everywhere beware there is a new voice to be reckoned with – that of Dana Loesch – the National Rifle Association’s chief spokeswoman. She has blasted upon the political landscape taking on mainstream media often appearing on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and, of ...

Ray Guze a man from Okanagan Valley in Canada, a former BC Hockey League player and professional lacrosse player, died while vacationing in Costa Rica. Apparently Guze was spending his vacation in the country with some friends, “He was dancing on a ledge, slipped and fell approximately 10 feet, hitting his head on a cement block dying instantly. The British Columbia native played seven NLL seas...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff High school students across the nation are walking out of classes unified in support of stronger federal and state gun laws in the United States of America. Student protests at state capitols and in Washington are occurring almost daily since the most recent mas...

The Canada Embassy to Costa Rica will host a business forum with the participation of representatives of different national companies with the purpose of analyzing and comparing the quality and price of products offered. According to information by the Foreign Commerce Chamber of Costa Rica in total, twelve Canadian companies from diverse product and service sectors, including Canadian Oats, Ch...

Manuel Alvarez, a 74 year-old man native from Asturias, Spain was reported missing in Costa Rica by his family, who explained the man traveled to this country on January 10 after he had received a call alerting him of a possible fraud to sell properties he owned here. Alvarez, who has resided in San Francisco, California for many years, owns some properties in Costa Rica and visited the country...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is admitting they screwed up on Jan. 5, 2018 when they received information from a concerned citizen about 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz of Parkland, Florida being a threat to the community and his intentions to be a “professional...

Two passengers of an Air Canada flight that had as destination Costa Rica, suffered minor injuries after the plane hit severe turbulence which forced the flight to be returned to Pearson Airport in Toronto. Flight AC1806 declared the emergency as it was flying over Knoxville at around 8 p.m. this Thursday, February 15. The two patients had to be taken to the hospital by Peel Paramedics, whil...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. A new highly-political movie was released Friday depicting three male childhood friends touring Europe -- who stepped up to the plate and saved a train load of people from certain slaughter by stopping a radical Islamic terrorist attack in Paris in August 2015....

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Mid-Term Campaign 2018 may be all but over for establishment Democrats. Future 30 or 60-second TV campaign ads featuring a fast back-and-forth montage of images from President Donald Trump’s first State-of-the-Union address showing the sour-faced Democrats sitt...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. The brilliance of President Donald J. Trump is shining through. The release of this now infamous 4-page House Intelligence Committee memo shows just how amazing his winning the presidency really was. Not only did Trump run against the Democrats, most Republican...

Costa Rican model Karina Ramos, former Miss Costa Rica (2014), will be participating for the first time in her career in the New York Fashion Week that takes place February 8-16. Ramos will be modeling the collection of Wilfredo Gerardo, a Latino born and raised in North Hollywood, California who has participated in several occasions in the renown event. Her participation is scheduled for Frid...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. All this clamoring over President Donald Trump’s first State-of-the-Union address by stone-faced-sour Democrats and cheering Republicans will soon die down as this much anticipated U.S. House Intelligence Committee’s four-page memo concerning the fake anti-Trum...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. There’s a shiny new Democrat appearing on the national stage Tuesday night to give the official response to President Donald Trump’s first State-of-the-Union speech before a joint-session of the U.S. Congress. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (D-MA) was selected to g...

Expats from the US Democrat Party are meeting in Costa Rica to plan their actions regarding the upcoming midterm elections in the United States. Members of the organization Democrats Abroad (DACR) are holding their Americas Regional Meeting from January 25 to January 28 at the Hotel Bougainvillea in Heredia, Costa Rica. 30 democrat leaders are attending who reside in Canada and different Latin ...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Trying to make sense of the craziness going on in Washington, DC these days would drive a sane person to beg for a padded cell in the nearest asylum. In guessing the next big story, now that the Democrat-induced government shutdown lasted only three days, it...

The Costa Rican Ministry of Security had made the announcement some months back of the donation by United States of three tactical vehicles known in Costa Rica as “Bestias” to be used by Specialized Units. Today, in an official act with the presence of the director of the Judicial Investigation Organism, Walter Espinoza, Mariano Figueres, Director of Intelligence and Security and US Ambassador ...

A Canadian man and one of his workers are being investigated for the shooting of two Nicaraguan men outside the Banana Beach Bar in the beach town of Santa Teresa de Cobano, Puntarenas, as a result of the shooting one of the man died and the other was injured. According to the authorities, one of the Nicaraguan men worked as a security guard at the liquor store where the Canadian arrived to buy...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Saturday’s display of Democratic unity was nothing more than a charade as the stars came together to showcase the government shutdown, the Women’s Marches across the country and illegal immigrants in a carefully coordinated circus to discredit President Donald ...

Lucas Peterson, the Frugal Traveler columnist for the New York Times stood up for Costa Rica describing his trip to the country and how in his opinion “Experiencing, the ‘pure life’ of Costa Rica is a unique experience”; this after some publications in U.S. media in the past weeks have questioned the security and regulation of domestic flights in the country, following the tragic light aircraft cr...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Much to the chagrin of President Donald Trump’s forever critics, the president’s doctor has given him a clean bill of health physically and mentally as he completes his first year in office. At the end of January this president will give his first State-of-the-...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Warning: Beyond this point expect to encounter some “shitholes.” What does it matter if President Donald Trump called a spade-a- spade in describing numerous countries like El Salvador and Haiti as a “shithole?” Some of those in the Oval Office last Thursday sa...

The United States’ Embassy and the Department of Labor of the US, will be donating US$2 million to improve the implementation of labor laws in the Costa Rican agricultural sector. The Bureau of International Labor Affairs of the Department of Labor describes the objectives of the project: “The project’s goal is to improve enforcement of minimum wage, hours of work, and occupational safety and h...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.   Checkmate! Whoever on Team Trump came up with the idea to go live on national TV during Tuesday’s bipartisan congressional White House meeting on immigration with President Donald Trump deserves the Political-Play-of-the-Week award. No one knew. It wa...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. The first big story coming out of this New Year 2018 is last Thursday the Dow Jones Industrial Average blasted past 25,000 for the first time – by Friday closing it landed at 25,295! The Democrats are left standing along the side of the road on this one. The...

New Jersey is the destination of the month at Avianca Airlines; this route which was inaugurated in November by Avianca is being promoted with prices starting at $409.00 roundtrip. Avianca flights leave the Juan Santamaria Airport and arrive at the Newark Airport five days a week: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, flights make a stop in El Salvador. The rate is available for ...

If you have been dreaming of escaping the winter in Canada and head to the wonderful summertime in Costa Rica, this is your opportunity, Air Canada Rouge, the low-cost airline of Air Canada just brought ticket prices down to $397.00 CAD ($319.60 USD) roundtrip from Toronto to Liberia. This is an amazing deal considering that right now it’s the high season in Costa Rica, and non-stop tickets usu...

“Due to strong winds and whiteout conditions, flights at JFK have been temporarily suspended. Travelers are urged to contact their airline carriers for updates on resumption of service”, the information was posted in the different social media channels by JFK Airport, but prior to this notification, American Airlines, Delta, Avianca, among other airlines had already suspended or canceled their fli...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. California came on-line with legal recreational-use of marijuana on Jan. 1 -- following the lead of Alaska, Washington, Colorado and other states. Costa Rica is not far behind with possibly approving legal-medical marijuana soon, so recreational weed is inevita...

Avianca Airlines informed of the suspension of several flights to New York and New Jersey due to the winter storm Grayson which is affecting the East Coast of the United States. The press release confirmed that flights leaving from Colombia, Costa Rica and El Salvador to and from New York and New Jersey scheduled for January 3 and 4 and 5 have been cancelled. The airline went through the proc...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Let’s think outside the box. There must be a better way to measure public opinion than today’s polling methods conducted by such groups as Gallup, Rasmussen, Reuters, Quinnipiac, Monmouth and Harvard-Harris. Each of these polling organizations practices a varie...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. No sooner does the United Nations vote 128 to 9 objecting to President Donald Trump’s decision to finally recognize Jerusalem as the true capitol of Israel and move the U.S. Embassy there, the president cuts $285-million from the annual UN membership fee of whi...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. The craziest things heard on mainstream media this week were “Patriotism is a perversion” and “It’s our job to control what people think.” So in the eyes of the ultra-weird-liberal-left media a love of God, country, flag and national anthem are now perverted vi...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. On Nov. 6, 2018 voters in the United States will return to the ballot booth for the mid-term elections to cast their votes for the future of America. Will the Democrats regain control of the U.S. Congress by winning back the U.S. House and Senate or will they dim...

The story goes back to December 10, 2010, when Canadian citizen Belkis Depaulo (also known as Belkis Gonzalez Garcia) was stopped at the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica as she was supposedly traveling to Brussels, Belgium; apparently the woman appeared nervous while going through airport security controls and when officers searched her luggage they found susp...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica voted against the United States’ decision of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. During the United Nations General Assembly which had the presence of 193 member countries, 128 voted in favor of the resolution which condemns the decision of the United States; 9 nations voted against the resolution and 35 abstained. Although the resolut...

Costa Rica’s Ministry of Public Security announced they have invested in the purchase of four new vessels to help battle organized crime in Costa Rican waters. “With satisfaction we announce that the ships GC110-1 Libertador Juan Rafael Mora Porras and GC110-2 General Jose Maria Cañas Escamilla (both donated by the United States to the Costa Rica coast guard service) are already painted and ...

Photo Credit: NC11 Costa Rica A man, native from Wisconsin, USA, was detained by the Costa Rican police on Wednesday afternoon, accused of sexually abusing his step-daughter who has a mental disability. The foreigner was reported by his wife who is Costa Rican, apparently, the woman witnessed the moment in which the man committed the abuse, she immediately reported him and when the police d...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff. Lady Justice is trembling. Recent revelations of favoritism are swirling around the upper management of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and overseer the U.S. Department of Justice. These events appear to show that Lady Justice’s blindfold came off several y...

A power outage affected the Atlanta Airport, one of the most frequented in the world, for over 11 hours, this caused hundreds of cancelled and rerouted flights and thousands of passengers stranded. In a time of the year when the number of passenger increases considerably the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport suffered an electrical failure at around 1 p.m. Sunday, December 17. The service...