Daily Archives: July 11, 2012

Most of Costa Rica will experience a rainy season drier than normal, according to predictions released Tuesday by the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional. However, the Caribbean will see from 10 to 15 percent more rain for the last six months of … Continue reading →

Rescue workers have located the body of a Costa Rican tourist who died while snowboarding in the mountains of Switzerland. The skier, Jorge Brenes Jaikel, 30, disappeared Wednesday at Zermatt. He appears to have fallen into a crevasse in a … Continue reading →

Tourism operators in the Cantón de Osa plan their annual expo Thursday at the Hotel Crowne Corobicí in San José. This is the 15th annual expo, called the Expo Osa, said the Cámara de Turismo de Osa. The expo is … Continue reading →

Nicoya residents have launched a strong criticism of police operations in their area and say that the security of citizens in all of Guanacaste has deteriorated. A local priest, Elías Mejías, in Barrio San Martín in Nicoya sent a letter … Continue reading →

Although soccer will probably always be Costa Rica’s most popular sport, a group of English expats has been working for over two decades to reintroduce cricket, and in the past few years the key has become getting it into schools. … Continue reading →

World food prices are likely to rise in the coming months in the wake of record-breaking temperatures and drought in the major maize and soybean producing regions of the United States, economists say. It would be the third spike in … Continue reading →

The new tourism group, the Asociacion Para La Proteccion Del Turismo en Costa Rica, says it plans to bring a legal action against the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo because the visitor statistics released by the agency contains more than tourists. … Continue reading →