Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - Same-sex marriages may be legal in some countries, but not in Costa Rica, where two women who were recently married, and their lawyer, may face criminal charges and have their marriage annulled. Why Did Jazmin and Laura Marry? The director of the Registro Civil (Civil Registry), Luis Bolaños, who...

QCOSTARICA - It was at 6:08am this morning when an earthquake registering 5.2 on the Richter scale rocked Guanacaste. The Observatorio Vulcanológico Y Sismológico de Costa Rica (Ovsicori) reported the quake's epicentre 50.2 kilometres Southwest of Samara, in Nicoya, at a depth of 10 kilometres. The exact location of the tremor...

QCOSTARICA - One of the most notorious, dangerous and elusive car thief, sentenced to 62 years in prison in 1997, survived an attack of being shot five times Tuesday morning. Rafael Tamayo Mata, 51 years of age, is in serious condition in the Hospital de Alajuela, is expected to...