Costa Rica taxi drivers demand crackdown on Uber in weekend protest
Taxi drivers staged a protest over the weekend to demand that the government crack down on Uber in Costa Rica, where the ride-sharing service was declared illegal by a transportation…
El Niño has Costa Rica’s snakes in a biting mood
Climate change might have a nasty bite. A new study on snakebite rates in Costa Rica has found that the bite rate shoots up during El Nino — at both…
Volaris now offers flights from Costa Rica to Cancun and Mexico City from $230 round-trip, taxes included
The “ultra low-cost” Mexican airline, Volaris began offering round trip flights between Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) and the Mexican cities of Cancun and Mexico City’s Guadalajara airport…
Swiss and US prosecutors to reveal more on FIFA cases
US attorney general Loretta Lynch and her counterpart from Switzerland, Michael Lauber, will give updates in Zurich on the "the status of two criminal proceedings," Swiss officials had said last…
Body of American exchange student recovered from sea in Quepos
The body of Deon Greene, a 21-year-old US exchange student from North Carolina, was discovered floating not far from the shore of Playa Linda in Matapalo de Quepos minutes before…
CCSS: Striking hospital staff vandalized Nicoya hospital, assaulted other staff
Striking employees of the public Hospital La Anexión in Nicoya vandalized the hospital and intimidated and assaulted staff working at the hospital who decided not to join the strike in…
Mayor of Alajuela back at his post despite corruption arrest, ongoing probe
Thompson, who was arrested on suspicion of influence peddling on August 27th, is listed as a suspect in an investigation into the apparently illegal issuance of a number of liquor…
Santa Cruz municipal workers are on indefinite strike, services affected
More than one hundred municipal workers in the municipality of Santa Cruz, Guanacaste began an “indefinite” strike Wednesday morning, and municipal services will be postponed until a resolution is met,…
