Daily Archives: February 24, 2012

The ashes of Robert S. Nahrgang will be scattered in the ocean in a private ceremony today, said his wife, Maria de Pilar Rodríguez Ruiz. Nahrgang, a U.S. expat, died Monday after a two-year battle with cancer. He lived in … Continue reading →

A coalition of Internet companies, including U.S.-based Google, has agreed to support a do-not-track button being installed in Web browsers to help protect the privacy of computer users around the world. For more than a year, the Internet browser companies … Continue reading →

Judicial agents detained two men Thursday and said that they both conspired to let individuals who had been forbidden to leave the county to exit at Paso Canoas. One of the detained men is an immigration agent. The arrests were … Continue reading →

There are plenty of sad tales of marriages gone wrong, but few are so dramatic as the one Mike Cross could tell if he still were alive. He was a northern California businessman who fell in love while on a … Continue reading →

It’s not everyday that hip hop tells the tale of the oldest stories of English literature, but that is the case in the play “Canterbury Tales Remixed.” The 90-minute play is fresh from New York and will kick off the … Continue reading →

Medical evacuation flights costing tens of thousands of dollars, emergency surgeries and unplanned doctor visits are all reasons any vacationer or expat should have some sort of medical coverage before living or traveling abroad in Costa Rica. But for both … Continue reading →

These are easy days for Costa Rican weather forecasters. Sunny, hot with some clouds and sometimes windy conditions. That is a forecast they could run off on a copy machine from Christmas until mid-March. Of course, there always is the … Continue reading →

Volcano experts from the Red Sismológica Nacional were at the Volcán Rincón de la Vieja Thursday to study the site where neighbors reported an eruption between 4 and 4:30 a.m. The Red Sismológica said that it appears that the eruption … Continue reading →

Democratic members of the U.S. Congress are trying to eliminate the overseas income exemption that allows citizens in foreign lands to earn up to $92,900 a year without paying Stateside taxes. The legislative change is deep inside the so-called Tax … Continue reading →