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by VANESSA LOAIZA N.With a backlog of five years and six months compared with the original contract, the expansion and modernization of Juan Santamaría International Airport will be completed in November.The new airport operator, Aeris Holding Costa Rica, took...

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...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveNew 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...

Nothing is Impossible reads the new hand painted sign as you enter the grounds of the Puerto Viejo Grade School. Looking around one begins to believe this phrase.More than 120 students and 15 teachers from three high schools from the...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveIs the brain capable of observing without an observer? What is the observer? What part does it play in the division, conflict, and fragmentation of the world?These are crucial questions, not only for awakening the meditative...

Sámara’s Chamber of Tourism (CASATUR) and Integral Development Association have joined forces and put in to motion the first plans to change the location of the Sámara Police Station. It seems that the necessity of relocating the station is...

Lance Harrell Editor in ChiefThe Costa Rica News is happy to announce the addition of Anita Verma to our writing staff! Ms. Verma has a passion for exotic cultures, sports, legal/political issues and the beach lifestyle. Ms. Verma obtained a...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveSet to the lyrics from Willy Wonka’s “A world of pure imagination,” the business ad invites participants into a brave new world of technology, where the only reality is what the mind and self invent at...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveThe Dalai Lama has said that he may not reincarnate again, and if he does, it will not be in Tibet. He isn’t referring to illumination however. After all, bodhisattvas reincarnate; illumined beings incarnate.The Dalai Lama...

by PABLO FONSECA QCosta Rica has officially adopted the digital television format created by Japan, but adapted to be used by Brazil in Latin America.By an executive order published in La Gaceta, Costa Rica and joined countries such as...