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Costa Rica’s State Telecom Rolls Out 4G LTE Service

Starting March 13, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) - state telecom - will be offering 4G LTE internet, under the Kölbi brand, to its customers in some 127 districts around the country. The new service is available both to...

Costa Rica To Ask International Court of Justice For Ruling

Costa Rica's Presidenta, Laura Chinchilla, said on Monday her government will ask the International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) to settle the dispute with Nicaragua related to potential oil concessions. Chinchilla said the country plans to file a...

Juliana Herz: Unknown in Costa Rica, An International Hit!

Juliana Herz is almost unknown in country.  However, the 24 year Costa Rican who grew up in Escazú (San José) and Tamarindo (Guanacaste), is well known in the international world of modelling. Herz's style of work is characterized as coy...

New Car Sales Expected To Accelerate in 2014

If 2013 was a good year for new car sales, 2014 promises to be better, although challenging. At least that is the way major importers and distributors of new cars are seeing things. The major players of new car imports...

Muthoot Group acquires resort in Costa Rica

Muthoot Leisure and Hospitality Services (MLHS), an arm of Muthoot Group, today said it has acquired Xandari Resort & Spa Costa Rica.Based in Alajuela, Costa Rica, Xandari Resort & Spa a luxurious property becomes the first overseas acquisition by...

Costa Rican Misnomers

From Costaricacurious.com - In my former working life, among many other things, I managed a sales team; over the years it was interesting how the title of the sales position changed…modifying it from Sales Guy to a word that...

Telesur Apologizes For Error In Report of US Military Base in Costa Rica

On Sunday, the Venezuela-based television station, Telesur, reported the existence of a U.S. Southern Command military based in Costa Rica. According to the report, "Presencia de milicia de EE.UU. en Costa Rica es evidente", the base is located in...

Carbon-Neutral Costa Rica: A Climate Change Mirage?

(IPS) - Meeting Costa Rica’s self-imposed goal of being the first country in the world to achieve carbon neutrality by 2021 will depend on the priority given this aim by the winner of the second round of the presidential...

How Green In Costa Rica Really?

How green is Costa Rica really? Not so much, according to Yale's  Environmental Performance Index (EPI) that dropped Costa Rica's rank from 5th out of 178 in 2012 to 54th last year. The drop, experts say, is attributed to new...

Racsa Buys Fullmovil

The Radiográfica Costarricense (Racsa), a subsidiary of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), has purchased the mobile cellular telephone operator Fullmóvil. The purchase is part of Racsa's restructuring, the strategy to regain a role in the telecommunications market, given that...

[BLOG] Otto Guevara Had Bases Covered

Here is an interesting fact that has not been covered or commented on in the mainstream Spanish news outlets: Otto Guevara knew the outcome of Sunday's election. And prepared himself, had the bases covered. OK, he didn't know who would...

Facebook Celebrates 10th Anniversary

On Feb. 4, 2004, in his Harvard dorm room, Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com, a website where college students could post information about themselves, trade messages, and become virtual “friends” with one another. It was entering an already-crowded field of social...

2014 Super Bowl Sunday in Costa Rica

Sunday, Feb. 2 is going to be an interesting day in Costa Rica. We have to major events, from two different worlds, shaping the day in the small democratic country: the presidential elections and the American 2014 Super Bowl. Although...

Costa Rica’s health care options to Obama Care for retirees

From Live in Costa Rica Blog - Over the years I have many clients on my monthly relocation/retirement tours with health care issues. Some were in their late 50s and were willing to come to Costa Rica because they...

Lower Rainfall This Year Could Mean Higher Electricity Rates

A combination of less rainfall, coupled with the increased cost of generating electricity using bunker and diesel fuels, threaten a sharp rise in electricity rates this year. The Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (Aresep) - regulating authority for public...

Panama to use transgenic mosquitoes in anti-dengue fight

TODAY PANAMA - Panama will try to control a dengue outbreak that has claimed six lives this year by releasing transgenic mosquitoes to render infertile female transmitters of the disease, officials said. Health Ministry director Carlos Gálvez said the technique...

[BLOG] The Risk of Misinformation

In an article with no "post date" or author, the website, JacoHotels.com tells us about the "New Costa Rica Law for Perpetual Tourists", sweeping changes in immigration rules to go into effect on March 1 (no year).According to this...

5 Reasons Why Costa Rica Rocks for People, Animals, and the Planet

Costa Rica, meaning “Rich Coast” in Spanish, is a beautiful and lush country in Central America. Nicaragua lies directly north of Costa Rica, Panama is to its south, to its west is the Pacific Ocean, and to its east...

Solutionstar is Driver Behind Cognizant’s Expansion into Costa Rica

The recent news that Teaneck, NJ-headquartered Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation intends to hire more than 100 workers in San José, Costa Rica has created some buzz, given that this is the global firm’s fifth center in Latin America, and...

Flemingo Launches Costa Rica As Springboard to Latin America

  Flemingo, the Dubai based global travel retail operator, is making its mark in Latin America with its first store in Costa Rica, with plans to roll out 200+ convenience shops in travel retail locations. Called STARTER, the company began its...

Solís Chases Votes Door-to-door

Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) presidential candidate, Luis Guillermo Solís, is betting on door knocking to get the undecided vote, making himself known to voters face-to-face. With less than a month to go before the polls open for voting there is...

The Wristwatch May Be Making a Comeback, but With Some Smarts

What time is it? If you check your smartwatch, you may find that it's a text message past a Twitter notification but if you check the zeitgeist, you'll find that it's wearable tech time. After more than a year of...

Costa Rica’s Qualy TV opts for Media Networks DTH platform

Qualy TV, part of Albavision Group, has selected the DTH satellite platform of Media Networks to support the pay-TV service that it just launched in Costa Rica. The service will consist of 53 SD channels and four Premium movie packages....

Roxu cranes off to Costa Rica

The lack of work in Spain and the hopes to carve out a position in the developing Latin American market, Spanish rental company Grúas Roxu has set up its new operation in Costa Rica. The company says it has shipped...

Streets of Matapalo in Samara Will Receive Maintenance After 20 Years

By: Wilberth Villalobos Castrillo, VozdeGuanacaste - After 20 years of neglect, the Municipality of Nicoya will give maintenance to the streets of the community of Matapalo in Samara. The reason why the streets have not been fixed in so long...

[BLOG] Those Hijueputa Costa Rica Banks!

If you have a bank account - any account at any bank - in Costa Rica you will probably have received an email or a call asking you to "actualizar sus datos" (update your account information). Update is a process...

2014 Offshore World Championship Hosted in Quepos, Costa Rica

Press Release - The 2014 ‘Olympics of Sportfishing’ will be held in Quepos, Costa Rica for a second year in a row. Marina Pez Vela is proud to again host next year’s Offshore World Championship – the globe’s largest...

Zara: 25 Years of International Expansion

The Zara stores, the flagship chain store of the Inditex group, celebrates 25 years of international expansion with stores in 86 countries on five continents and a dozen online stores. Founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and his wife, Rosalía...

BYD Qin Plug-in Hybrid in Showroom in Costa Rica

Not available in the U.S., or Canada, but is in Costa Rica, the Chinese plug-in hybrid car the BYD Qin, unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2013, went on sale last month in Costa Rical The Qin is...

Start of Costa Rica’s New International Airport Will Be In 2018

The construction of the new international airport, to be located in Orotina, will start in 2018, seven years ahead of the original start, according to the Dirección General de Aviación Civil (Civil Aviation). Deputy Minister of Air Transport, Ana Cristina...

[BLOG] It Was Too Good To Be True!

Are you disappointed that Disney is not coming to Costa Rica? Don't be, it was never ours to begin with. Every year someone floats the story that Disney is coming to Guanacaste. And every year many get suckered in...

Disney’s Trip to Costa Rica WAS All A Fairy Tale

It is a definite, Disney IS NOT COMING TO COSTA RICA. The news of a Disney theme park to be built in Liberia was cleared up by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, who is adamant that the company has no...
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