RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – The arrival of a giant US aircraft carrier here Friday with F/A-18 jet fighters aboard is a step in Washington’s offensive to win a multi-billion-dollar contract to supply Brazil’s air force with modern jet fighters. US Rear Admiral Ted Branch told reporters that the visit of the USS Carl Vinson [...]
Lance Harrell Editor in Chief It was a packed house yesterday at Club Cubano for the 3rd annual Costa Rica Blues Festival and that house was rocking! The doors opened at noon and Electric Storm kicked off the 12 hour event which featured an incredible Blues lineup including the Blue Devils, Blind Pigs, Robbie Clark [...]
by TCRN Staff Although the new traffic fines are soon to be in effect, officials refuse to enforce them for fear of reprisals from the drivers and doubts raised about the implementation of sanctions. That is the most drastic response adopted yesterday by the National Union of Professional and Technical Employees in Transit (Unateprot) after [...]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s armed forces will not finish a modernization program until 2020, several years after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country is completed, the defense minister said. “The biggest challenge we have on the security level is the transition of security from U.S. forces to Iraqi forces,” Defense Minister Abdel Qader [...]
by TCRN Staff A delegation of Israeli businessmen representing 16 companies from various sectors arrive in the country next week in seeking new business opportunities with their Costa Rican peers. Mario Burstein, director of the Israel-Latin America Chamber of Commerce, said cosmetic entrepreneurs will participate, as well as manufacturers of beauty products from the minerals [...]
Contributor – Meditations Martin LeFerve After a couple of beers at the local brewery, my atheist friend made the oft-heard claim that Jesus never existed. When I retorted with the cliché that he was throwing the baby out with the bathwater, he became somewhat irate, and called me a “Jesus freak.” Fortunately, we’re still friends. [...]
Featured Columnist – Health Ileana Alfaro Certified Dermatologist Because of the increasing frecuency of skin cancer in our country and the world, Derrmatologists are supporting awareness among the population about the risks of sun exposure and tanning beds. Between 1997 and 2008 skin cancer affected 5,507 costaricans, according to CCSS´s data. Cases increased in a [...]
Intern – Sydney R. Lawson She’s young, beautiful and ridiculously talented. 24-year-old Costa Rican singer, Debi Nova, is not your average, eye candy pop star. On top of being a singer and songwriter, Debi plays several instruments including piano, guitar and bass. She can even shake her hips like Shakira. A fusion of English and [...]
by TCRN Staff Chile was struck yesterday by an earthquake registering 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale, one of the strongest in history, which killed at least 708, with 15 missing and leaving two million homeless. President Michelle Bachelet declared the central and southern areas of the country disaster areas where the quake occurred at [...]
Lance Harrell Editor in Chief I had the extreme pleasure on Friday night to attend the Season Opener of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica at the Teatro Nacional. Not only were their renditions of Tchaikovsky, Smetana and Rimsky-Korsakov exquisite, but I enjoyed the rare delight of listening to one of the greatest pianists [...]
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