For the 6th year running, Playa Guiones has received its Blue Flag award, certifying the beach and surrounded area ecologically sound with clean safe waters. Which means for us surfers and water users alike, we have healthy waters that don’t pose a risk to our health plus an ecologically sound surrounding area. But is this [...]
Members of the G20 summit, which opened last night in Toronto, will compare their strategies to avoid a relapse into recession, as the collapse of the Greek economy has dampened optimism about a quick and orderly exit from the crisis. Discrepancies occur in two areas: the magnitude of fiscal adjustment, driven by the main countries [...]
In Part 2 of this series we talked about being honest with yourself. It is common for people to fool themselves with a kind of false honesty, and it is important to address this if they want to feel better about themselves and if they wish to achieve their goals. In this part of the [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerve A neuroscientist named Benjamin Libet made a remarkable discovery at the University of California, San Francisco in the mid-1980’s. Placing electrodes on volunteer’s skulls and forefingers, he asked them to move their finger whenever they had the urge to do so. He found, to his amazement, that his machine registered [...]
(Reuters) – North Korea said on Sunday it was ready for direct military talk with South Korea to discuss the sinking of one of Seoul’s warships, but only if the armistice commission overseeing the Korean War truce does not get involved. South Korea has accused the North of sinking the Cheonan, and killing 46 sailors, after [...]
(Reuters) – Venezuela will pay Helmerich and Payne for a fleet of oil rigs it seized from the U.S. company, the oil minister said on Saturday, warning that five drills at a Chevron venture were also at risk of nationalization. Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez announced this week that OPEC member Venezuela was nationalizing 11 rigs [...]
by ALONSO MATA B After 13 days of striking and intense negotiations with the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), the assembly of residents agreed to end the strike and return to work immediately. A total of 425 residents voted, 288 did so for themselves (accepting the offer), 134 for non-zero and three deferred. The [...]
By Ashley Steyaert On Tuesday, June 8th, ICE installed a new telecommunications tower providing coverage across a circumference of 3 kilometers from its base on Mount Las Huacas, expanding 3G service from as far as Barco Quebrado to Downtown Nosara. Although the installation of the new tower increases the service coverage of 3G clients, some [...]
Featured Eco Columnist Elizabeth Mann Tapanti National Park in Costa Rica is located on the edge of the Talamanca Range, near Cartago. The park contains 45 species of mammals and 260 kinds of birds including the spectacular Quetzal! The park is also home to 28 species of reptiles. The area in which the park is [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerve New findings and theories have been coming out recently regarding the clash in Europe between Neanderthals and the first fully modern humans, the Cro Magnons, tens of thousands of years ago. These findings speak of the last great breakthrough in human evolution, highlight the darkest impulses in human nature, and [...]
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