“My dream is to begin an art movement” says artist Fernando Matamoros
By Deborah Brackman
Nosara- During the month of August Fernando Matamoros, a well-known professional artist, will teach a course in Tradicinal Costa Rican painting. The course will be held...
Production of arabica coffee varieties appears to recover in several producing countries like Brazil and Colombia, estimated the International Coffee Organization (ICO) in its monthly report released Thursday.
The official recalled that coffee prices rose sharply in June due to...
By Ashley Steyaert
Nosara- The children of all eight public schools in the Nosara area now have the means to expand their education through one of the oldest and most enriching creative outlets – Art.
The Surfing Nosara Foundation (SNF) and...
The small school of Carbon 1 and its students and parents have partnered with generous group of women from North America called “Women Like Us” and with ATEC (the Talamancan Association of Ecotourism and Conservation) to renovate their school.
Work...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFerve
This weekend Americans are celebrating the 4th of July, the date that commemorates the birth of the United States 234 years ago. As Tea Party chauvinism metastasizes and merges with the larger cancer of the Republican...
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...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFerve
New 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 LeFerve
Is 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...
Lance Harrell
Editor in Chief
The 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...
