Canadian Immigration Use Children As "Fish Hooks" To Detain Illegal Ticos
This morning's headline in Costa Rica's daily Spanish language newspapers tells of the story of how the Canadian Immigration service is using a couple's children as hooks in an unusual move designed to net an illegal immigrant couple, immigration officials in Toronto went to a school and threatened to take away two young sisters if their parents didn't turn themselves in.

May 1 - A Day of Protests
The Legislative Assembly will be in full dress for May 1, one of the many Costa Rican traditions, that will see President Abel Pacheco give his final speech as president and see move in the 57 new deputies that will make the legislative sessions for the next four years.

Costa Rica Celebrated in Memphis
Residents of Tennessee don't have to go far get a taste of Costa Rica this year, as the "Memphis in May" celebrations honour Costa Rica this year.

Costa Rica Finally Has A "First Lady"!
Since president-elect, Oscar Arias Sanchez, is a bachelor and there is no wife to take on the role of first lady, tthe president-elect appointed two women.

TicaBus Accident Leaves Two Dead
An accident Saturday involving a TicaBus in Chinandega, Nicaragua, has left two dead, more than a dozen injured and the driver of the bus, Costa Rican Gilberto Azofeifa Flores, in a Nicaraguan jail.

Transit Officials Forced To Patrol On Foot
A report in the Spanish daily newspaper La Nación says that the Policía de Tránsito patrol the nation's highways on foot, since six out of every ten patrol cars are in the shop with some problem or other.