Help track down illegal fishing boats in Cocos Island, Costa Rica from your computer
Turtle Island Restoration Network announced on Tuesday a new pilot program to find illegal fishing vessels within the Marine Protected Area surrounding Cocos Island, Costa Rica. Turtle Island teamed…
Costa Rica construction activity has fallen across the board in 2015
Construction activity fell across the board in Costa Rica during the first half of this year compared to the first half of 2014, including residential, commercial and industrial building, according…
Uber seems to have found an ally in Libertarian Costa Rican lawmaker
It seems that the controversial “driver-for-hire” smartphone app, Uber has found an ally in Libertarian lawmaker Otto Guevara.…
Costa Rica unionists file criminal charges against lawmaker for calling them “bums”
Unionists from the National Association of Public and Private Employees (ANEP) announced Monday that they have filed criminal charges against Citizen Action Party (PAC) lawmaker Otton Solis for allegedly calling…
Costa Rica high court rules child born in US can receive nationality based on DNA without birth certificate
Costa Rica’s Constitutional Court (Sala IV) has determined that a child born in the United States, but whose US-issued birth certificate was apparently lost, can receive Costa Rican nationality based…
President Solis says he is not concerned about tax reform effects on his popularity, has no intention to run for second term
Costa Rican president, Luis Guillermo Solis said on Friday that he is not concerned with the effects that a tax reform plan being pushed by his administration could have on…
Water taxi, tourist vessel collide killing one in Costa Rica’s Tortuguero
One woman was injured and another woman identified as Cristina Smith Benita Gonzalez, 58 died when a water taxi and a tourist vessel collided in Barra del Tortugero, Limon around…
Uber to charge less than half of Costa Rica’s licensed taxi drivers
Uber, the controversial “driver-for-hire” smartphone app, will charge less than half the fares charged by licensed Costa Rica taxi rivers (“red” taxis), the company said on Saturday.Uber said that…
