By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Those who love new, traditional and unique foods will have a Tico resource. The culture ministry is coming forth with the first edition of Cocina Tradicional Costarricense.
The book includes recipes from two cooking contests. One was in 2001 in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, and the second was in Puntarenas in 2003.
This […]
By Amanda Roberson, Tico Times Staff
Recent plans by Colombian and Costa Rican authorities to check the criminal records of approximately 10,000 Colombians refugees living in Colombia violate international norms for respecting their rights, said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Sunday in a full-page ad in the daily La Nación.
Upon returning from a visit […]
HONORING Don Pepe: Costa Ricans yesterday celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of three-time President José “Pepe” Figueres (1948-1949, 1953-1958 and 1970-1974) with ceremonies at the José Figueres Ferrer Cultural and Historical Center, in Figueres’ native San Ramón, northwest of San José, and at the Legislative Assembly and the National Theater, in San […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Gas prices are being cut again. The agency that controls prices said Monday that super was going down 14 colons a liter to 499 and that regular was going down 16 colons to 469. There are about 520 colons to the U.S. dollar.
The Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos said […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Emergency commission contractors were at work in Palmares Monday clearing away debris from a river and ditches so that any future rainfall will not cause the kind of damage inflicted last week.
The Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias said that similar work was going on in […]
Costa Rica last week resumed diplomatic relations with Kuwait, Bahrain and Yemen, according to a statement released Friday by the Foreign Ministry.
During a visit to the United Nations headquarters in New York, Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno met with the Foreign Minister of Kuwait Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, the Foreign Minister of Bahrain, Sheikh Khalid Bin […]
Wal-Mart Costa Rica announced Friday that it plans to build a new $12-million Hipermás store in the western San José suburb of Escazú, according to a statement from the company.
Like the other four Hipermás stores in Costa Rica, this store will sell everything from home appliances to clothes to groceries, much like Wal-Mart stores in […]
By Leland Baxter-Neal, Tico Times Staff
Attorney General Francisco Dall’Anese, in a public presentation of the Judicial Branch’s annual report Friday, warned of a rising trend of murders by hired hit-men, or sicariato, and organized crime in Costa Rica. […]
By José Pablo Ramírez Vindas
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Costa Rican law officials have a $50,000 new system to keep track of those who have valid permits to buy or carry a gun.
The system comes from the Organization of American States and is similar to a driver’s license process in which unique documents in plastic […]
By Blake Schmidt , Tico Times Staff
As the government prepares for a long-overdue nationwide assessment of property values, a lack of municipal resources promises to gum up the process, officials say.
Municipal impotence, combined […]
