Education
Costa Rica Implements Virtual Classes as Part of the Preventive Measures to Counter the COVID-19 Crisis
Abiding by the recommendations issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), to maintain social distancing and quarantine, the government of Costa Rica as a measure for students to continue their studies has implemented the modality of virtual classes based...
Education
The Costa Rica Book Fair This Year Will Be Carried Out Totally Virtual
In times of quarantine, reading is a great ally. From April 20th to 24th, the Costa Rica Book Fair will be held virtually, this due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and will feature teleconferences, repertoires and audiovisual productions.The Minister of...
Education
Your Pleasure Is Your Own Responsibility
Sex is like that light that is kept on over the sports field.Illusive in its brightness, persistent and illuminating everything that is not being said. Even though the light is bright we often go towards it blind and ill-equipped.Sex...
Culture & Lifestyle
Parable #8: Where Does This Road Lead?
(This week is the eleventh installment of the book, “The Band Director’s Lessons About Life”, which TCRN is publishing as a series during 2020. This week, band director and spiritual author Donald Lee relates a parable about choosing our...
Education
My Baby Drives Me Crazy!
The first baby's 2 years is a radical change in his way of being; it is also known as the terrible 2-year period. The baby begins to acquire autonomy, tends to want to impose their wishes and in their...
Culture & Lifestyle
Parable #6: Is My Saxophone Fixed Yet?
(This week is the ninth installment of the book, “The Band Director’s Lessons About Life”, which TCRN is publishing as a series during 2020. This week, band director and spiritual author Donald Lee relates a parable about gratitude. For...
Education
Costa Rica Steps Up Educational Programs for the Prevention of Forest Fires
All over Costa Rica, both the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) continue to work together, aimed at the prevention of forest fires through an educational campaign called "Un Verano Sin...
Culture & Lifestyle
The Arrival of Jews to Costa Rica: A Rich Cultural Heritage
Many have been the colonies of different countries that have expanded throughout the world, motivated by different circumstances; the most marked being the difficult economic, political, and social situation that their members have experienced.Historic studies agree that the first...
Culture & Lifestyle
Parable #5: Choosing an Instrument
(This week is the fifth installment of the book, “The Band Director’s Lessons About Life”, which TCRN is publishing as a series during 2020. This week, band director and spiritual author Donald Lee relates a parable about seeing things...
Culture & Lifestyle
Yolanda Oreamuno Unger: A Successful Woman’s Story
Yolanda Oreamuno Unger was a Costa Rican writer (born in San José, Costa Rica, April 8th, 1916 – died in Federal District, Mexico, July 8th, 1956). Entrepreneurial and very successful woman, with only 16 years in 1932, she published...
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Crocodiles Will Be Monitored with Drones to Count Population and their Relationship with Communities in Costa Rican Rivers
The use of drones for monitoring crocodile populations in Costa Rica represents an important change from traditional methods: nighttime...