By Katherine Stanley, Tico Times Staff
For the second time this year, President Oscar Arias spoke out in favor of arms control abroad – this time, while presenting his Costa Rica Consensus disarmament proposal before the United Nations in New York Tuesday – while his opponents at home argued the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner is […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A representative of the firm that wants to put a tuna farm underwater in southwestern Costa Rica said Thursday that the country should take advantage of its undersea resources.
The representative is Eduardo Velarde Silva, and he spoke to the Asamblea Legislativa’s Comisión Especial de Ambiente. China has 174,000 square kilometers […]
Hotel owners, real estate developers, restaurants and other businesses raised $16,000 to repair the Calle Langosta road in Tamarindo, a beach town in the northwestern Guanacaste province, according to a statement from the nonprofit Pro Mejoras de Tamarindo Association. The money was used to repair 2.7 kilometers of the road, which runs from Tamarindo […]
By Katherine Stanley, Tico Times Staff
Presidency Minister Rodrigo Arias yesterday pointed to construction statistics from the Costa Rican Construction Chamber (CCC) as evidence of a strong economy.
According to the chamber, construction in […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The tourism minister wants no part of plans to set up promotional agencies in Guanacaste and in Limón.
In fact, the tourism minister, former lawmaker Carlos Ricardo Benavides, said he would rather set up his own eight regional offices with five employees each.
Benavides said last week that the twin proposals in […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Monday is the 100th birthday of José Figueres Ferrer, the major figure in 20th century Costa Rican history.
He was the man who led the rebels in the 1948 civil war, ousted President Teodoro Picado Michalski and others loyal to Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia and abolished the Costa Rican army.
He was […]
By Amanda Roberson , Tico Times Staff
Urging other countries to join Costa Rica in denouncing weapons proliferation and promoting education and human rights, President Oscar Arias addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York yesterday.
Arias’ speech, which was broadcast and translated into English on the United Nations’ Web site, touched on his often-mentioned principles of […]
Co-directors of the Costa Rican film “El Rey del Cha Cha Chá” (The King of Cha Cha Chá), featuring Mexican actor Damián Alcázar, announced yesterday that shooting of the movie is complete.
Co-directors Isabel Martínez, from Costa Rica, and Vicente Ferraz, from Brazil, said they are “very excited” about the project, which was completed on a […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Thursday is International Peace Day, and the annual event has special meaning in Costa Rica because the nation was one of the two sponsors of a United Nations resolution to create the day in 2001.
Maribel Muñoz is a member of the Subcomisión Nacional para la Promoción de la Paz Social. […]
By Amanda Roberson, Tico Times Staff
Traditional pay phones around Costa Rica are being replaced with new, high-tech phones that accept coins, regular and “chip” calling cards and can send e-mails and text messages to cell phone users, according to a statement from the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), the state-run telecommunications and electricity monopoly.
Callers will […]
