02/05/2012 -  Summit Up 2-5-12: Special Costa Rica mishap edition - 02:01 AM

The SDN made its way into a police station in Costa Rica recently when Summit County's Jon Harrington experienced a robbery on vacation .

02/05/2012 -  Group sends message of hope abroad - 02:01 AM

A group of volunteers gathers Jan. 28 after loading goods in St. Cloud to be shipped to Liberia.

02/04/2012 -  New Market Research Report: Peru Agribusiness Report Q1 2012 - 11:55 PM

Coffee continues to account for the lion's share of exports, at US$470.5mn, or 31.3% of the total.

02/04/2012 -  Costa Ricans Trapped In Panama Coming Home This Weekend - 08:23 AM

Costa Ricans Trapped In Panama Coming Home This Weekend The 270 Costa Ricans trapped in the communities of San Felix de Chiriqui, Panama, will be returning home this weekend.

02/04/2012 -  Website Allows Comparison Shopping On Sending Money To/From Costa Rica, The US and Central America - 08:23 AM

Website Allows Comparison Shopping On Sending Money To/From Costa Rica, The US and Central America Need to send money from Costa Rica to Nicaragua or from the United States Central America? A new website will help you do so and tell you the exact cost of each transfer.

02/04/2012 -  Costa Rica Schools Will Have 12,800 Fewer Students Due To Drop In Births - 08:23 AM

Public and private schools will have less students, 12.759 fewer to be exact, at the start of the 2012 school year next week.

02/04/2012 -  Red Deer's Rider-Shaw gets her big break - 02:13 AM

In a case of life imitating art, Red Deer's Jennifer Rider-Shaw is getting her big break at the Stratford Festival this summer by playing the lead role in a musical about a young woman getting her pivotal moment in the spotlight.

02/03/2012 -  Children Without Borders Feb. 3 fund-raiser in Hingham helps Costa Rican children - 12:35 PM

Children Without Borders Feb. 3 fund-raiser in Hingham helps Costa Rican children Thousands of miles away, in three clinics tucked into Costa Rica's landscape, Duxbury summer resident Dr.

02/03/2012 -  Crowder Ag Students To Visit Costa Rica - 12:35 PM

Crowder Ag Students To Visit Costa Rica Neosho, Mo. - Jay Wilkins, chairman of the Crowder College Agriculture Department, summed up his feelings about his students visiting other countries.

02/03/2012 -  Traffic Chief and Two Others At The MOPT Suspended - 12:35 PM

Traffic Chief and Two Others At The MOPT Suspended Cesar Quiros, the director de Transito, Gerardo Aymerich, head of administration at the Ministerio de Obras Publicas y Transportes and Andres Bermudez, head of the Direccion General de Transito, were all suspended on Thursday following Monday's Transito warehouse theft of 215 firearms.

02/03/2012 -  Pineapple growers expect ample volumes - 11:29 AM

Pineapple plants growing in late January in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, are destined for Frontera Produce Ltd.'s packing house in Isla, Veracruz.

02/02/2012 -  Poll: Ticos Roundly Reject Figueres Explanation - 08:23 AM

A Unimer poll published last Sunday in the leading Spanish-language newspaper La Nacion showed an overwhelming number of Costa Ricans reject the explanation ex-President Jose Figueres gave to a TV interviewer that the $900,000 he received from Alcatel was legitimate.

02/02/2012 -  Copa, Iberia Increase Tourist Traffic - 04:08 AM

COPA, the Panamanian airline , has announced non-stop service from Panama City to four new destinations, including Liberia, Guanacaste province in Costa Rica, to begin June 24.

02/01/2012 -  Costa Rica: Authorities Seize 2 Tons of Cocaine - 11:58 PM

In Costa Rica, about two tons of cocaine worth over six million dollars on the "black market" have been seized.

02/01/2012 -  Costa Rica: Authorities Seize 2 Tons of Cocaine - 11:58 PM

In Costa Rica, about two tons of cocaine worth over six million dollars on the "black market" have been seized.

02/01/2012 -  Peru Agribusiness Report Q1 2012 - new market research report published - 08:35 AM

BMI View: Our positive outlook for the export market for Peruvian agribusiness is borne out by the announcement in early December 2011 by the Ministry of Agriculture that the countrys agricultural exports for the January-October period were up by 39.2% on the same period in 2010 to US$3.6bn. In volume terms, exports were up by 13.3%, with export ... (more)

01/31/2012 -  Exchange students enjoy change in culture, weather - 11:37 AM

High school students from Costa Rica visit the Great Circle Earthworks in Heath Jan.

01/31/2012 -  9 Out of 10 Ticos Consider Presidenta Chinchilla Is NOT in Control - 11:37 AM

The perception is reflected in the latest public opinion poll by Unimer. The survey was commissioned by the Spanish language daily La Nacion and taken between January 4 and 10, 2012.

01/31/2012 -  Costa Rica: Young Entrepreneurs Present Mobile Game - 09:32 AM

Six young Costa Rican entrepreneurs have created a mobile game platform called TweetLand .

01/31/2012 -  Local Artists Launch Businesses - 06:17 AM

Artists in any country and every epoch have tended to struggle and perhaps at no time is it tougher than the Internet age.