Costa Rica Blogs - Newsfeeds

by Rod Hughes
You can add another toothpaste to your list of “don’t buys” in Costa Rica: Dentamint. The bright red and white tubes look legitimate but Nicaraguan authorities say the toothpaste is laced with the antifreeze diethylene glycol, reports the daily paper Al Dia.
Nicaraguan Health Minister Maritza Cuan yesterday confirmed to Al Dia that laboratory […]

by Rod Hughes
Torrential rains in the Central Valley have moved the National Emergency Commission to declare a state of emergency in two cantons near Heredia, in the central canton of Alajuela and to issue a Code Yellow warning for the San Jose southern suburb of Desamparados.
Wednesday’s rains also provoked a near tragedy when two schoolgirls […]