Costa Rica News

Mark Mulville ditched the Florida swamps in exchange for some Costa Rican jungle.

May 24th, 2013 Attorney General, Jorge Chavarria, threatened yesterday to prosecute and possibly jail any official who discloses any information to the press surrounding the investigation of President Laura Chinchilla's recent trip to Peru, in which she flew in a private jet linked to Gabriel Morales Fallon, a Colombian businessman suspected of ... (more)

The presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru met on Thursday in Cali, Colombia, for the seventh Pacific Alliance meeting to discuss the economic integration of Latin America.

May 23rd, 2013 The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers has responded to the Constitutional Court regarding arsenic contamination of the water supply in several communities in Guanacaste and San Carlos.

Costa Rica, thanks to its geographic position as a land bridge between North and South America allows it to posses not only coasts both in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans but also an incredible range of fascinating bioversity.

May 22nd, 2013 An employee of the Ministry of Health, who also worked as a clown, was sentenced yesterday to 18 years in prison after being found guilty of three counts of indecent assault against three girls.

The opportunity came after he was sponsored on a Raleigh expedition to central America by local financial planning company Questa Chartered, based on the Whitehills Business Park.

Three people accused of killing a member of a well-known Cocoa Beach family two years ago in Costa Rica are facing trial this month in the Central American country.

May 22nd, 2013 The export of Costa Rican goods reached $4 billion in the first quarter, up 4.7% from the $3.8 billion recorded for the same period last year.

The news [es] that an oil company provided a private plane for President Laura Chinchilla's trip to Peru has rocked the Costa Rican presidency and its structure of contributors.

Scientists say one of Costa Rica's largest volcanos is spewing clouds of ash and gas, setting off a small-scale evacuation.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, and meet with U.S. President Barack Obama in the United States on June 7-8, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang announced here Tuesday.

Airline Avianca-Taca said on Tuesday that the cancellation of five routes to and from Costa Rica will affect some 50,000 passengers who will have to be re-routed or given refunds if they prefer.

Expat enclaves dot Costa Rica like so many fireflies on a dusky summer lawn, and right in the middle of all of them sits Central Valley and the country's capital, San Jose.

However, the heavy reliance on imported medicine in the region provides revenuegenerating opportunities for generic drugmakers from neighbouring Latin American countries and India.

A Vancouver man residing in Costa Rica who was shot to death by intruders last week lived a lavish lifestyle, according to a private investigator.

A Canadian has been killed in Costa Rica in an apparent home invasion, but the government is releasing few other details on the matter.

Your tax dollars at work - producing goofy videos at US embassies. Ambassador Anne Andrew , U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica, and her U.S. Embassy staff put together this goofy music video to encourage Costa Rican's to get more visas to the US.

A trail of blood is seen at the Kirkland Heights house of Keith Clarke, who was killed by the security forces on May 27, 2010.

This summer around 20 students are working in Costa Rica's northern rain forest region.