Yearly Archives: 2015

COSTA RICA NEWS - The attack by teenage thugs in Costa Rica causing a toucan to lose half its beak has a prompted social media campaign to have gang arrested. The pictures show the horrendous injury suffered by the toucan, as the beautifully-coloured bird had almost the entire top part...

QCOSTARICA (iNews.co.cr) The latest success for Costa Rican medicine appears to be a successful liver transplant performed on a pregnant woman, Yajira Garcia, 35, originally of Guapiles, in order to save her life and, of course, that of her baby. The operation, the first such in Central America, was performed...

QCOSTARICA (iNews.co.cr) It is a clever -- but short lived -- promotion for tourism to this country. But, then, what does one expect of a sand sculpture? It existed for only one day on a sidewalk on Wall Street in New York City and beckoned to pedestrians to come...