TCRN STAFF: SAN JOSE (Costa Rica), Rene Castro, Costa Rican Foreign Minister met this week along with Costa Rican ambassadors in Asian countries to move forward their efforts in the region. The Minister and Foreign Policy Director Jairo Hernandez met in Beijing, together with Costa Rican ambassadors to China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Qatar and [...]
Featured Columnist – Political Correspondent – Latin American Relations Jennifer Mayer When many people think of the province of Limón, they envision calm blue green sea waters, reggae music, and the warm salty ocean breeze swinging brightly color hammocks. The province of Limón, located on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, is regarded by many as [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre Martin LeFevre: It’s autumn in northern California, and the weather has changed with the season. Though cloudier and cooler, we’ve had little rain as yet. The leaves are beginning to turn, but it’s still warm enough today to run in shorts on the track. With the sun streaming over the [...]
TCRN STAFF: Brian Smith, It seems that there are enough forward-thinkers among the powers-that-be in Costa Rica that a new wave of economic prosperity is currently in the works. The Costa Rican government has begun to reemphasize retirement communities as a priority, something unseen in this country in a decade or more. Considered to be [...]
TCRN STAFF Reserva Playa Tortuga has a new research facility located just over the bridge in front of Ojochal in the old Joe’s coffee shop. The facility has been renovated to house volunteers and researchers alike. Headed by Director Alexia Maizel RPT has a capable team of investigators and scientist to deal with any biological [...]
TCRN STAFF: From the global summit on biodiversity in Nagoya, Japan , Costa Rica was announced as the winner of the 2010 Future Policy award. The prize, issued by the World Future Council, in recognition of the country’s 1998 biodiversity law. The Central American country would like to be the first developing nation to meet [...]
Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevre Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is a Tanzanian accused of playing a role in Al Qaeda’s bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998. He is the first Guantánamo prisoner to be tried in an American civilian court. But because information from Ghailani was obtained through torture [...]
By Nicolas Liger The ICT is Promoting Tourism in Samara and Nosara • Hotels are looking to attract national and European tourists • Crisis and the dollar’s instability are affecting the sector The Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT) hosted the Fair “Descubrí Guanacaste Sur” (Discover Southern Guanacaste), which was held on October 9th and 10th, [...]
TCRN STAFF: San Jose, Costa Rica – To meet UN goals in protected areas, Costa Rica will receive nearly $56 million in donations and debt write-offs to expand conservation programs in its forest and marine habitats. Costa Rica will use the funds to increase its protected tropical forests from 25 percent of its national territory [...]
TCRN STAFF: Costa Rican migration authorities are considering restricting Mexican and Guatemalan visas to enter the country. We believe it is time to assess the desirability of more restrictive entry of citizens of both nations, as we have with Colombia and most recently in Jamaica,” an official said. The idea is that the visas of [...]
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