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The couple next door is a disturbing spiritual/philosophical study. They run a lucrative business from their home--as foster parents for abused and neglected children of all ages, including babies. There are legions of them in this land.They severely test...

The World Bank announced that it committed credits by $400 million between 2012 and 2015 to support a plan to improve higher education in Costa Rica.With these funds, "Costa Rica will be able to support the public university system,...

As the economy recovers and tourism grows the number of jobs increase for Costa Rica. Foreign investment is also attracted to this country and with it thousands of jobs are becoming available.The number of workers in Costa Rica’s construction...

As of the next high season, Germany will have a direct air link to Costa Rica’s most popular tourism area bringing with it revenues from European tourists.

Though the Catholic Church has supposedly changed a great deal, in truth its modernization is a veneer over a decaying 2000-year structure. The cornerstone of medieval Catholicism—guilt—is still the cornerstone. The only difference is that rather than guilt with...

In Latin America, Managua, Nicaragua is the cheapest city to live in according to study.Managua is the city of Latin America with the lowest costs to live in the case of the foreign employees of multinational companies.Nicaragua is also...

Two new towers are going up in San Jose’s Sabana Park bringing more construction and development to the area. Torres Duo consists of two buildings of 21 floors each.  This new housing project will join the current boom in...

The mind-as-thought has the unfortunate ability to go away from what is, and the human mind does so habitually and perennially. But the human brain also has the capacity to see things as they are in the moment.That capacity,...

A number of U.S. citizens have arrived in Costa Rica with the mistaken belief that living or working in a foreign country relieves them of their ongoing obligations to file tax returns

Kat Sunlove, TheCostaRicaNews.comIn my last column, I touched on the subject of the responsibility residents and visitors have in caring for the magnificent but fragile environment here in Costa Rica. In such a small nation, the importance of safeguarding...