Route 27 closed after major landslide; engineers had warned of danger
Route 27, which connects the western suburbs of San Jose to the Pacific port of Caldera, remained closed Thursday morning after a major landslide Wednesday afternoon. The highway is…
$100 million “Escazu Village” project breaks ground
A more than $100 million USD development project has broken ground in Trejos Montealegre in the western San Jose suburb of Escazu.…
Police seize $1 million in cash from trailer carrying toilet paper
Agents of Costa Rica’s Drug Control Police (PCD) at the Peñas Blancas border crossing with Nicaragua seized $1 million in cash from a Guatemalan trucker driver carrying a load of…
Four-year-old boy believed to have shot, killed two-year-old sister in Limón
A four-year-old boy is believed to have shot and killed his two-year-old sister while playing with a .22-caliber rifle in Palestina de Matina in Costa Rica’s Limón province Wednesday morning.…
“Inefficient” ICE doing roadwork is “absurd” idea: Otto Guevara
Rep. Otto Guevara (ML) described as “absurd” a suggestion made by President Luis Guillermo Solis on Friday that the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) should participate in infrastructure projects to…
Costa Rica recognizes the first same-sex common-law marriage in Central America
A same-sex couple from Costa Rica were granted a common-law marriage Tuesday, making them the first legally-recognized gay couple in Central America, the Tico Times reported. A judge at the…
21 percent drop in foreign investment has “nothing to do with government policy” – President Solis
President Luis Guillermo Solis told reporters on Monday that the 21% drop in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Costa Rica recorded in 2014 has “nothing to do” with policies of…
Costa Rica sex workers demand labor rights
Costa Rica sex workers gathered for an event at the country’s Legislative Assembly on Monday to demand recognition of their labor rights, including vacation, severance pay, health insurance and…
