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...
by ALONSO MATA B
The rectors of the state universities and the Government are seeking to define the budget of the school houses for the next five years.
At 5 pm the National Council of Rectors (CONARE) composed of top leaders...
The European Union (EU) and Central America failed to close the trade chapter of the Association Agreement despite the intense pace of negotiation that lasted until dawn on Monday in Brussels.
As reported by the Costa Rican Foreign Trade Minister...
by IRENE VIZCAÍNO
After conciliatory speeches and handshakes, the elected president, Laura Chinchilla, and the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, set to work.
Just yesterday, they agreed to work together on a project to create a tourism corridor that includes the province...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFerve
Sometimes, fewer than a thousand words are better than a picture, or a video. For example, the image of a San Jose, California Pulitzer-prize winning photographer and teacher halting a bank robber in the act by...
By TCRN Staff
Bogotá. The Colombian chain said it "is not in talks with the U.S. firm aiming to realize a strategic alliance or any kind of agreement or negotiation."
In information provided to the Superintendent of Finance, said the Colombian chain...
The Government has a project to ensure a drinking water supply to Guanacaste, on paper, but lacks the money to finance it.
The work, which would build a reservoir on the Rio Piedras, 8.5 kilometers from the city of Bagaces,...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFerve
A recent conversation with a Buddhist teacher from India turned to the Buddha’s illumination. “The
Buddha,” he said, “was attacked by Mara, but the Buddha came to see that the evil was within him.” That’s going a...
Twenty-eight young women and men from all parts of Costa Rica recently learned how to produce their own radio messages on preventing violence, through a training programme organized by UNESCO and supported by the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund...
by GABRIELA MAYORGA
New Credit Card Rules, in force since last Tuesday, prohibits issuers from making "harassing" phone to clients or their families in order to collect outstanding balances.
The legislation protects cardholders who have experienced this type of practice in...
