An increased investment in coffee farms, climate forecasts and high harvest expected in the coming months will help to boost coffee production in Central America in the 2009/10 cycle, say members of the industry.
The small Central American countries are...
by Lindsay Barnett
Talk about specialized -- the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica rescues and rehabilitates sloths, sloths and only sloths. Back in 1992 neighbors of the sanctuary's bird-enthusiast founders brought an orphaned baby three-toed sloth to their doorstep....
SAN JOSE – The Costa Rica government announced that it is allocating $15 million for the reparation of 10 bridges, two days after a tragedy that took five lives and sparked a barrage of criticism against Public Works and...
SAN JOSE, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Costa Rica's Public Works and Transportation Minister Karla Gonzalez resigned on Monday after being criticized for failing to assume responsibility for last week's accident in which five people were killed.
A bus fell into...
By Zack Harold
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It's not the slight Spanish accent that sets Valerie Chavez apart from her classmates.
It's that, just a year ago, the Richwood Elementary fifth-grader spoke no English at all.
Valerie came to the United States from...
By Kate Spinner
After a brief brush with fall, warm, moist weather is expected to return to Florida next week, coinciding with heightened chances for tropical storm activity in the Caribbean.
A cold front this weekend is forecast to dip across...
Submitted by: Rachael M
We should not pollute the planet we live in. The planet Earth is the only planet we have got that contains all our needs to live. So if we all stop polluting, then the planet would...
Submitted by: Becky Nelson
We got very luckily with this shot of Arenal Volcano, near La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Â The day was perfectly clear and we happened to be visiting a restaurant close to the mountainside. Not only was the...
