Daily Archives: October 22, 2010

Costa Rica has begun a military operation along its northern border in response to reports that Nicaraguan soldiers have entered an area along the Río San Juan, ran off farm workers, killed cattle and began dredging.

There were three positive developments in Pacific coast real estate this week.

The Costa Rican tourism industry is in debt $700 million, and the legislature is being asked to set up a bailout.

A brief report from the Cantón de Carrillo said that Del Monte, a major employer there, has decided to keep its melon operations going.

Minimum wages will be going up 2.63 percent Jan.1. That was the pay raise mandatedd by the Consejo Nacional de Salarios.

Fuerza Pública officers detained a 20-year-old man Thursday afternoon while he was riding on a bus with his pregnant 12-year-old girlfriend.

A new measure makes clear that security guards may not prevent vehicles and individuals from entering residential areas.

The chief of Haiti’s medical association says an outbreak of cholera in the north of the country has killed 135 people and sickened 1,500 others.

Police said a crook threatened a taxi driver and made him put a dead prized pig in the trunk of his vehicle.

Two men tried to stick up a meat delivery truck in Escazú Thursday, but Fuerza Pública officers captured a suspect on a motorcycle in San Antonio de Escazú not long after.

The open secret that a Nicaraguan firm and Nicaraguan soldiers were trespassing in Costa Rica became public Tuesday. Costa Rican officials have known about the incursions since Oct. 8, when the son of a farmer complained to the Fuerza Pública. … Continue reading →

Costa Rican artist Ana Isabel Navarro opens her show west of Liberia Saturday. It is “Entre Verdes y Silencios,” and it is at the Hidden Garden Art Gallery 5 kilometers west of Daniel Oduber airport.