Costa Rica News Archives for January, 2008

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A year of generous and kind souls
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA Before you grow weary of reading year-in-review stories, let me offer one with a twist: a look back at the generous acts of local residents. The year in giving, if you will. (...) About Tier native Christina Muscatello and her effort to raise money to build a library for children in a poor village in Costa Rica -- an effort that...

"The Choking Game" is the No. 1 Teens & 20s story for 2007.
Burlington Times News - Burlington,NC,USA
Mission trip to Costa Rica — Jimmy Branley, a student at Western Alamance High School, documented a mission trip to Costa Rica. His first-person account was...

Vietnam, Libya among new non-permanent members of UNSC
Hindu - Chennai,India
31, 2008), Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Libya, Croatia and Costa Rica, which will begin two-term on January one. This will the second term on the Council for...

Green Sea Turtles Reemerging
Washington Post - United States
So scientists from six major nesting sites in Japan, Hawaii, Australia, Costa Rica and Florida collaborated in an analysis of how many females had returned...

Where Is The Land Of Opportunity
Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Just recently he went to Costa Rica with his family, and had a terrific time. Since Tim’s business is highly automated, he didn’t have to worry about it...

LaserCard Corporation Signs $1.7 Million Contract With Costa Rican ...
PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna,Bulgaria
LaserCard Corporation (NASDAQ:LCRD), a leading provider of secure ID solutions, today announced the award of a contract by the government of Costa Rica...

Many new developments changed travel this year
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Central America's popularity: In addition to Costa Rica, awash in tourism, increasing numbers of Americans are traveling or thinking about traveling to...

Latin America 2007: Best & Worst
Latin Business Chronicle - Miami,FL,USA
Costa Rica CAFTA Approval. On October 7, 2007, a slim majority - 51.6 percent - voted in a referendum to approve the country joining CAFTA.

Costa Rica highway reaches financial close
IJ Online - London,UK
Itinere Infraestructuras has reached financial close to build a toll highway that will link the cities of Caldera and San José in Costa Rica.

Malawi May Break Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan, Switch to China
Bloomberg - USA
Taiwan said on June 7 it would sever ties with Costa Rica, which has formally recognized China. Costa Rica was the eighth country to break ties with Taiwan...

Two men convicted in Costa Rica murder
CPJ Press Freedom Online - New York,NY,USA
A court in San José, Costa Rica’s capital, convicted businessman Omar Chaves of ordering Medina’s murder, and gunman Luis Alberto Aguirre Jaime of carrying...

Costa Rica Reports Record Pot Bust
The Associated Press -
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican agents made the largest marijuana bust in the Central American nation's history, seizing 4.85 tons of the drug found...

Sacyr, FCC Agree $247 Million Costa Rica Loan, Negocios Reports
Bloomberg - USA
Contratas SA have agreed on the terms of a $247 million loan to build a 76.8-kilometer (47.7-mile) highway in Costa Rica, Negocios reported...

Ecotourism Task Force to Meet in CostaRica
Tico Times - San José,Costa Rica
CostaaRica is set to host the next meeting of the International Task Force on Sustainable Tourism Development in February. In an interview printed in this week's print edition of The Tico Times, Claire Hughes, a British Embassy adviser hired to assess Costa Rica's Peace with Nature initiative, points to tourism's potential for destruction, saying, people come in, make their money, build their hotels and condos, then they're gone, on to the next place. What is CostaRica left with? (...)

Soccer balls help bridge economic divide between NoCo and Costa Rica
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
BY LYNDSEY STRUTHERS While touring the villages of CostaRica and seeing how little the locals had, the owner of a local adventure travel company began kicking around ideas of how he could help. (...)

Costa Rica to serve as non-permanent member of UN security Council
Xinhua - China
Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno said Friday that his country will serve as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for two years starting on Jan. 1. This Central American country will work to improve the cooperation between the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in fighting crimes against humanity, Stagno, who was attending a 15-day ICC meeting in New York, said in a communique. (...)