The Daniel Oduber Airport in Liberia, Guanacaste is the best terminal in Latin America and the Caribbean in quality of services to travelers according to the Airport Service Quality Awards. The annual Airport Service Quality Awards recognize and reward the best airports in the world according to an ASQ Departure Survey and the ASQ Arrivals Survey. “These awards represent the highest possible ac...

Kimberly-Clark will invest $42 million in its production and supply center as well as in its Global Shared Services Center in Costa Rica. With the new investment, the company will buy high-tech equipment to manufacture more baby, kids and feminine care products, as well as expand the production plant and the Global Shared Services Center, promoting more employment in the country. “This is...

Visiting Costa Rica is an opportunity to connect with the essence of life: nature, wellness, culture and adventure. This is the message that the Costa Rican Tourism Board used to launch its new “Only the Essentials” promotional campaign in the country’s two largest tourist-sending markets, the United States of America and Canada. “The campaign seeks to form a personal connection to what really ...

In the first bill With 40 votes in favor and 15 against deputies approved the bill to regulate strikes in Costa Rica. Some of the most important points of this project are: -It defines which are considered "essential services", where strikes are NOT allowed. -Salaries are suspended on the first day of any strike. If the strike is declared legal by a court of law, then the employer will ha...

After less than one year of directing the Costa Rica national soccer team “La Sele”, head coach Gustavo Matosas announced his decision to leave the team. The announcement was made this Wednesday, September 4th and he will direct the team until September 10, directing Costa Rica in its friendly match against its equivalent of Uruguay scheduled for this Friday, September 6. Matosas, a native o...

Authorities of the Ministry of Public Security filed a report to the prosecutors of the Association of Professional Psychologists requesting them to investigate a group of psychologists that are in charge of applying suitability evaluations to those requesting a license to own a gun. According to the Ministry of Security, several psychologists are issuing a significant number of tests in the sy...

The US Embassy in San José, Costa Rica announced its upcoming consular events – routine services for U.S. citizens in Dominical and Pérez Zeledón. To RSVP for passport renewals, notary services, and federal benefits inquiries, interested parties must write to [email protected]. Any applicable fees must be paid in cash in Colones. No checks, credit cards, or U.S. dollars can be accepted...

Gap store returned to Costa Rica and opened doors this weekend in Avenida Escazú shopping center. The international franchise had operated two stores in Costa Rica in the past, one in Multiplaza Escazú and another one in Lincoln Plaza, however, these closed doors in 2016 after three years in the country. Now they come back strong, with an aggressive expansion plan, from the hand of Central A...

(Photo: Archive) The National Association of Educators (ANDE) and the Association of High-School Teachers (APSE) called on their members to join a new strike movement this Monday, September 2 and Wednesday, September 3 to protest the projects that are currently being discussed in congress regarding public employment, the right to strike in essential services, and those projects that would affec...

The Technical Council of Civil Aviation (CETAC) and the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) will invest over $10 million USD in important works to improve the international airport of the province of Limon and the airfields of Guápiles and Tortuguero. “This is a country effort to promote economic reactivation, tourism, production, commerce and connectivity, staying in line with the mis...

As part of their DNA Tour, American band Backstreet Boys will offer a concert in Costa Rica on February 28, 2020 at the Coca Cola Amphitheater of Parque Viva in La Guacima, Alajuela. The band formed by A.J.McLean, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson was a big hit in the late 90´s and early 2000´s selling over 100 million records worldwide, making them the best-sell...

Goalkeeper Keylor Navas will be finally leaving Real Madrid after reaching a deal with París Saint Germain. Since May this year the fact that Navas was soon not going to be part of Los Blancos made headlines. Navas won three Champions League titles with the team, a Spanish League title, the Spanish Supercup, three UEFA Super Cups and was named the best goalkeeper of the 2027-2018 season. Yet, s...

Back in March, Jacó beach in Puntarenas inaugurated a 63 meter long ramp built with recycled plastic and that gives access to the beach to people with disabilities, Jacó became then the first fully accessible beach in Central America. Now, the Cahuita National Park in Limón became the first National Park to be accessible for people with disabilities thanks to the project “Cahuita Accesible”. ...

ColorTexturePhotoTours, provider of exceptional photography tours in the United States and Costa Rica, has released its 2020 Costa Rica photo tour schedule. “We are excited about the 2020 Costa Rica photo tour season and have created new itineraries so clients have more options. We also reduced the size of each tour to only four clients so each client gets even more help creating better images,...

Glamping “glamorous camping” is becoming more and more popular specially among young travelers looking for an experience that bring them closer to nature. Costa Rica has several options for glamping and luxury glamping, one of this last lodging options opened doors just close to a year back for private groups, but is now open to the public, Kinkára is part of the Coyuga Collection Hotels. The b...

American tourist Charlie Hughes, 62 years of age, has been missing since August 3rd in Costa Rica and was last seen in the area of Puerto Jiménez, Puntarenas. The Judiciary Investigative Police (OIJ) in Costa Rica informed of the disappearance of the native of Tampa, Florida and apparently the FBI is also investigating the case. According to information that has been released, Hughes was see...

Photo: Archive Once again, Costa Rican Penitentiary Police captured a cat smuggling cell phones into prison, this time at the Center of Institutional Attention Jorge Arturo Montero (La Reforma). The cat had a harness and attached to it a bag with two mobile phones its respective chargers and three sim cards. An officer first noticed the cat as it entered module B of the prison, however, o...

This Saturday, August 24 we celebrate National Parks Day and Costa Rica offers free entrance to any of its 29 National Parks. Beach or mountain destinations, Costa Rica has a variety of options to offer, some just an hour away from the capital city. Costa Rica has 169 protected areas that represent 26% of the country’s total area; these protected areas include national parks, national monum...

Boston Scientific Corporation, specialized on the design, manufacture, distribution and sale of minimally invasive medical devices of the highest technology, celebrated its 15th anniversary in Costa Rica reaching a workforce of 4,500 employees and collaborators. This makes Boston Scientific the largest medical device manufacturer in Costa Rica. The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado, visi...

Costa Rica’s Attorney General confirmed the detention in Nuevo León, Mexico of former priest Mauricio Víquez Lizano accused of sexual abuse of two minors and who had fled the country back in January. According to the Judiciary Investigative Police (OIJ) it was through an investigation by the Information Technology Crimes section that they were able to confirm that Víquez was in Mexico and from ...

The U.S. Embassy issued a security alert in relation to the first national evacuation drill in case of an earthquake or emergency that will take place on Monday, August 19, at 10 a.m., this event is organized by the Costa Rican National Emergency Commission "The organization expects more than a million people across the country to participate in the event. Government offices, businesses, sch...

After eight days of striking and after several long meetings between representatives of the CCSS labor union and the Government, an agreement was reached to put an end to the strike that caused the cancellation of 82,872 scheduled appointments and more than 1,400 surgeries and 18,000 procedures . The Executive Director of CCSS, Roman Macaya, celebrated the agreement that put an end to the strik...

The multinational company specialized in high-tech services, SYKES, today announced that it will hire 1,000 people with an advanced English level for its operations in finances services and technology. The hiring process will be developed from August to December. The company will create too 1,950 spaces for the SYKES English Academy to train people with 70-90% English level. This is part of the...

The Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) confirmed that during the first six months of this year, international arrivals by air grew to 1,335,687, which represents an increase of 4.5% over the same period in 2018, with 57,565 additional arrivals. If all ports of entry to the country are considered (air, sea, land and river), international arrivals grew to 1,725,963 in the first six months of the yea...

In an operation in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Costa Rican Coast Guard Service and Drug Control Police seized 1,002 kilograms of cocaine with a value of over $35,000,000 USD. The vessel, under the name "Princeso Claudio", was intercepted 53 nautical miles off the coast of Puntarenas, 4 men were arrested with last names López Avalos ,45 years of age who was the ca...

As of noon Friday, the Social Security Service (CCSS) had been forced to suspend 57,536 patient appointments after almost a week of strike which affected over 39% of public health appointments. Close to 20% of the employees are taking part of the strike, which mainly include nurses, support personnel, and personnel in the area of health technologies; also 578 general medical doctors and 408 spe...

Costa Rican athlete Andrea Vargas made her dream come true and made the country proud by winning the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdle competition at the Pan-American Games that are taking place in Lima, Perú. The 21-year-old, who has a 4 year-old daughter, and is a native of the city of Puriscal, trains daily under the direction of her mother. Vargas stopped the clock at 12.82, runner up w...

PriceSmart has announced its plans to expand its operation in Costa Rica by adding a new warehouse club in Liberia, Guanacaste. The shopping club has acquired a 227,000 square feet of land in Liberia, where it plans to build a small-club format that would open doors in the summer of 2020. This would be PriceSmart's 46th warehouse club in the world and the eight in Costa Rica. The Company ...

The Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) has implemented a series of twenty actions to strengthen tourist safety in the country. The measures adopted included inter-institutional partnerships with the Public Safety Ministry, the Costa Rican Red Cross and the University of Costa Rica (UCR), since ICT understands that risk management is a task that it is facing alongside other social, academic and pol...

Costa Rican Drug Control Police (PCD) managed to detect a shipment of drugs consisting of 240 kilograms of cocaine which were inside a container transporting honey in barrels. The container was located in the port of Moín, Limón; police officers inspected a ship aboard which they found the container where they found seven suspicious backpacks inside of which they found 240 packets with an appr...

Whale watching is one of the most attractive activities for national and foreign tourists in Costa Rica, the temperature of the water as well as the abundance of food sources offer humpback whales the perfect conditions. Tourists come every year to Quepos and Uvita to witness this incredible spectacle, where not just humpback whales but also pilot whales, bryde whales, fake killer whales, in ad...

Image: Archive/Illustration purposes only. Thanks to international cooperation of US, Colombian, Panamanian, Peruvian and Costa Rican authorities, Costa Rican police bodies were able to seize 640 kilograms of cocaine at the end of July. “We are very pleased, this is an important success, the result of the coordination of national authorities with international police”, commented Eduardo Trej...

Guanacaste and San José were included in the list of the best Latin American cities to hold events in the meeting and congress tourism market, according to the global network of suppliers in this sector, called Cvent. The ranking measures locations with the best standing and characteristics for the MICE sector (Meetings, Incentives, Congresses and Events). In the Cvent rankings, published this ...

Canadian singer and songwriter Bryan Adams will offer a concert in Costa Rica next October 8th at the Coca Cola Amphitheater at Parque Viva. Promoting company Move Concerts is in charge of bringing this concert. The company confirmed tickets will go on sale August 12th at 10 a.m. through the website www.boleteria.cr This is part of the tour Shine A Light, which includes presentations in Cana...

For the second consecutive year, the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE), will launch its virtual job fair www.joblink.cr. More than 30 multinational leading companies combining services and manufacturing sectors, will offer 2,500 job positions for this second semester. The main requirement is to be bilingual. JobLink’s second edition will be available 24/7 from Monday July 29th un...

Maruyama Coffee Co. purchased Costa Rican Coffee of Group Los Grandes de Copey at a price of $65.30 per pound, paying a total $28,073 for the 429.91 pounds of coffee that comes from the region of Santa María de Dota. The negotiation took place during the twelfth edition of the electronic auction Cup of Excellence 2019, recognized as one of the main coffees selling programs worldwide. Not only d...

Cruise ship visitors arriving in Limón will soon enjoy a new experience when they debark at the Hernán Garrón Salazar port terminal, which welcomes the 193,000 cruise ship passengers who come to the Costa Rican Caribbean each year. “We want to take their breath away right from the first glance, so that they will go on to fall in love with the flavor, natural surroundings, music, culture and bea...

The Ministry of Health in Costa Rica issued an alert this week regarding the selling of tainted alcohol, after 19 people, most of them homeless, passed away after an apparent intoxication, the deaths took place between the months of June and July. The alcohol they drank apparently contained methanol. 14 of the victims were men and 5 women, between the ages of 32 and 72. The Ministry of Health c...

The 2019 Kolbi National Surf Circuit came to an end on Sunday at Playa Hermosa, Jacó, and it was veteran Noe Mar McGonagle who took the first place for the male event while Rubiana Brownwell was crowned in the female competition. Even though Jair Pérez had already taken the first place in the general table. McGonagle took the win in the final date of the circuit. Noe Mar was able to finally ge...

Not only was Costa Rica selected as Mexico’s and Central America’s Leading travel Destination 2019 by the World Travel Awards but it also took 10 additional awards. The 2019 Latin America World Travel Awards ceremony was held in Bolivia. The Costa Rican Tourism Board (ICT) received an award in the category of Leading Tourist Board for Mexico and Central America .Costa Rica’s Hotel Nantipa p...