Daily Archives: July 24, 2012

Another of those walking tours of San José will take participants back to the days of the trolley,tranvía in Spanish, when there was not so much pollution or the crush of vehicles in the capital. Alianza Francesa is presenting the program … Continue reading →

Representatives from more than a dozen government agencies met Monday to begin drafting an integrated immigration policy. The new Consejo Nacional de Migración has as a priority the formulation of such a policy, in part to address the number of … Continue reading →

Anti-drug police said they were met with hostile neighbors when they tried to make arrests Monday in Barrio Corazón de Jesús in San José. Neighbors pelted the agents with rocks, and the Fuerza Pública had to be called in to … Continue reading →

Judicial agents said Monday that they had detained an Italian national who is sought in his country to answer a murder charge. Agents said the man was 33 years of age, but they did not name him. The murder took … Continue reading →

The nation’s environmental enforcement agency has added another layer of errors and damage to the growing scandal that is Ruta 1856 along the Río San Juan. The agency, the Tribunal Ambiental Administrativo, has given a handful of public agencies 10 … Continue reading →

Wednesday is the celebration of the Anexión del Partido de Nicoya a Costa Rica. This is a paid holiday in Costa Rica, according to the Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social. Employees who work are supposed to be paid double. … Continue reading →

Earthquakes reported last week were no big deal, the experts said. From July 13 to last Thursday there were 149 quakes counted, but only eight were strong enough to be felt by humans, said the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de … Continue reading →

Costa Rican artist Christian Wedel will present his fourth exhibit “Naturaleza, Patrones y Armonia” at the Centro Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano. Wedel’s paintings use emotion, personification and symbolism, to unite natural Costa Rican landscapes and shapes with a global perspective. “Nature, … Continue reading →

For many Americans, the most meaningful part of the U.S. Constitution is the Bill of Rights. These 10 amendments were written to protect individual Americans from tyrannical rule. Like the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech and worship, the … Continue reading →

The starry nighttime sky is disappearing from view for most of the planet’s population. Rampant artificial light in many parts of the world has become another urban pollutant, erasing our view of the night sky, blinding ground-based telescopes and threatening … Continue reading →