by Oliver Pérez It seems that the 12 bridges along the road that connects Nicoya with Samara Beach will continue to be ignored by the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT). MOPT doesn’t have its eyes on either replacing or fixing them in the near or foreseeable future, as confirmed by the Minister of [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre China just passed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Never mind that per capita income in China is still at Algeria’s level. It’s an important milestone, though it raises the question of qualitative vs. quantitative change in China, and the world. Intellectuals in China are fond of [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre The first hint of autumn is in the air. There’s a subtle change of light and atmosphere, and more tangibly, a new breeze in the treetops. The first, lightly anchored leaves are falling into the creek. A single large, brown sycamore leaf parachutes onto the glassy, emerald surface of the [...]
Featured Eco Columnist Elizabeth Mann Fincas Naturales Wildlife Refuge is a 25 acre private wildlife refuge which features various nature exhibits and trails. It is located between Quepos and Manuel Antonio. The refuge performs research to establish new exhibits for the reproduction and protection of native endangered species in the local area. The refuge has [...]
Coming from a conservative icon, this is a great compliment for the Central American nation. In March 2010, Limbaugh stated on his radio show, with listeners in the tens of millions, that he would go to Costa Rica for medical treatment if Congress passed the reforms to the US healthcare system, commonly known as Obamacare. [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre One of the best studies of good and evil by an American writer is Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd.” If you haven’t read the novella, there’s an excellent 1962 film with the same title, which stars, and was directed and produced by, Peter Ustinov. The central characters are masterfully rendered. They’re [...]
The majority of people who consider cosmetic surgery either wish to look as young as they feel or desire to change something that has troubled them for a long time. To say that plastic surgery is the right choice for someone is an affirmation that should only come after serious soul searching and personal examination, [...]
By Fritz Elmendorf A transcendent night of music that featured internationally renowned guitarist Edin Solis from the band Editus at an August 6 concert at hotel Bella Vista Mar showed off visiting and local talent in a world-class lineup arranged by musician Bill MacPherson. The poolside shelter at the hilltop hotel in Playa Pelada offered [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerve It’s near dusk, and the parkland seems to be full of Cooper’s hawks. At one point on the path, a large, brown, stipple-winged hawk takes off from the path ahead of me with some small animal in its mouth. Another hawk, perched on a branch overhanging the park road, drops [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerve Here we are again, 65 years and tens of thousands of nuclear weapons later, commemorating the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Perhaps it’s because my first political memory, at ten, is of the Cuban Missile Crisis, that the issue of nuclear proliferation still wrings my heart [...]
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