Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
Jane Goodall, the aging but still very active doyenne of chimpanzee studies in the Gombe Reserve, Tanzania, was interviewed recently on America’s premier TV magazine show, “60 Minutes.” Watch Video. In the most evocative moment of...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
Martin LeFevre: It’s autumn in northern California, and the weather has changed with the season. Though cloudier and cooler, we’ve had little rain as yet.
The leaves are beginning to turn, but it’s still warm enough...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is a Tanzanian accused of playing a role in Al Qaeda's bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998.
He is the first Guantánamo prisoner to be tried in...
TCRN STAFF:
Costa Rican migration authorities are considering restricting Mexican and Guatemalan visas to enter the country.
We believe it is time to assess the desirability of more restrictive entry of citizens of both nations, as we have with Colombia and...
Featured Columnist – Political Correspondent - Latin American Relations
Jennifer Mayer
TCRN STAFF:
The Costa Rica News.com
Jennifer Mayer
“Don’t be such a Nica”. It may shock many that this insult is commonly heard around Costa Rica. It could come from the mouth of a...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
Can spiritual insight and political strategy go together? That¹s not an academic question to me, but a pressing, even personal one.
There was a time, indeed the vast bulk of human history, when these two dimensions of...
TCRN STAFF:
PLANE GOES DOWN WITH 173 KILOS DOWN AFTER TAKING OFF FROM TOBIAS BOLANOS PAVAS, west of San Jose with a shipment of cocaine that was destined for Guatemala.
The aircraft was transporting 173 kilos of drugs and at 8:05...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
On clear nights (in northern California there are few clouds for two-thirds of the year) I go into the backyard before bed to gaze up at the stars. Through binoculars for the past two weeks I’ve...
TCRN Staff:
The chain of tropical storms continued to saturate Costa Rica collapsing highways, overflowing rivers and flooding towns. Hundreds of people are in shelters, many lost their homes and the Central Valley is almost cut off from the rest...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFevre
The word Serengeti is synonymous with Africa. The Serengeti’s spectacular panoply of predator and prey still echoes through the mists of history on the continent of humankind’s birth.
Now, the Tanzanian government has approved a highway...
