The Juan Santamaría International Airport will have a new terminal for domestic flights by March of 2018. According to Rafael Mencía, executive director of Aeris Costa Rica, company that administers the airport, the construction work already began and also includes the construction of a new firefighter station to the south of the main building. The domestic terminal is being constructed as a...

Starting a new life in a different country is certainly challenging, initially it may all seem exciting and romantic, like a long vacation, but as time goes by you start falling into the realization that this is your new reality, and adapting to it might not be simple, even if you speak the language and you already have your job and a few friends, adapting to a new culture and different way of doi...

The small community of Ojochal in Puntarenas is located in the South Pacific, about 30 minutes south from the popular beach town of Dominical and also 30 minutes north from Palmar Norte. The South Pacific of Costa Rica continues to grow in popularity since many tourists try to escape the crowded beaches of Guanacaste, but this is not the only reason, this area is beautiful and has a lot of att...

The number of deported foreigners considered “dangerous” has duplicated in the last year. According to data by the Costa Rican General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners, effective deportations increased by 60%, going from 393 cases to 620, this is a result of a higher number of operations, 150% more, confirmed Esteban Obando, sub-director of Migration, while the number of migratory rej...

The electronic passport for Costa Rican citizens is a country project that will soon be put up for open tender with the expectation of having it ready by 2020. With this technology migratory procedures will be done almost automatically through smart doors that will have systems to run fingerprints and facial recognition and will avoid having to spend time in long lines at the regular counters. ...

This Satuday, November 11 at around 2:30 p.m. an incredible car accident took place in Route 27, more precisely in the area close to Construplaza in Guachipelin; another car (not involved in the accident) captured the exact moment when the accident took place (Date and Hour Showing in the Video Are Incorrect, the accident occurred November 11, 2017 at around 2:30 p.m.) . The video shows the mom...

Luckily it was a friendly match, so the five goals Costa Rica received against Spain "don’t count", even still, it doesn’t make it any less humiliating. This is an excellent wake up call for Costa Rica’s Male National Soccer team and a great opportunity to learn from its mistakes. The great performance “La Sele” had in Brazil 2014 was not a fluke, it was the result of hard work, discipline a...

Alarma: Bomberos de Costa Rica (Alarm: Costa Rica Firefighters) is the first web series in Costa Rica that showcases the work of the country’s Fire Department. The web series will be aired starting Wednesday, December 6 at 7 p.m. through the webpage http://alarmacostarica.com/ and its corresponding You Tube channel; this first season involves a total of 8 episodes that have been on the works ...

Bogged down in a mobility crisis that is the bane of local residents, Costa Rica's capital is nevertheless pursuing its dream of transforming itself into a modern and "friendlier" city via civil, business and government initiatives. "Amid the mobility crisis that the greater metropolitan area is experiencing, San Jose is a city that is getting trendy, acquiring a very special dynamic, with its ...

Costa Ricans will have the responsibility of electing their president for the period  of 2018-2022 in the election that will take place February 4, 2018 with a total of 13 candidates. However, as it is usually the case, out of the 13 options only a handful have real possibilities of reaching the presidency, which is actually an improvement after many years of having only two big political parti...

The Costa Rica National Meteorological Institute (IMN)informed today that according to the most recent studies and the indicators of the atmosphere and the ocean, the current conditions correspond to the beginning phase of a new episode of La Niña phenomenon. The forecasts indicate that this event will not be of great magnitude and could extend through March of April of 2018. La Niña, the di...

The Costa Rican National Emergency Commission (CNE) estimates the damages caused by tropical storm Nate in approximately $365 million, according to a report created for the Inter-American Development Bank. The roads in several areas of the country were the ones that presented the most damage, approximately 72% of the county roads suffered some level of impact, while in the national rounds the i...

This Saturday, November 11, the male national soccer teams of Costa Rica and Spain will face-off in a friendly match at 2:30 p.m. (Costa Rica time) in the Spanish city of Málaga. This is the first match in preparation for the Russia World Cup 2018, however, Costa Rica is missing several key players due to injuries or other obligations, and therefore, head coach Oscar Ramírez will be forced t...

The World Meeting of Blue Zones will take place in Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, from November 16 to the 18 and will have the presence of national and international guests that will be able to enjoy an agenda full of activities. Blue zones are geographic regions with an unusually high longevity. “A part of Costa Rica stands out worldwide as a "Blue Zone," which is characterized by the long...

Costa Rica has been hosting since November 8 the Latin American Congress for Equal Marriage, the event comes to an end today, it is the first event of its kind in the region. HDuarte-Lex, Igualitos Foundation, Citizen Asociation (ACCEDER) and the Costa Rican Association of International Law are the organizers of this event that was celebrated with the objective of opening a legal and constituti...

The efforts done by the Costa Rica Tourism Board with the objective of increasing the visits of tourists from Europe to the country have paid off, especially when it comes to tourists visiting the country from the United Kingdom. The number of tourists from the UK to Costa Rica has grown by 9.1% in comparison to the previous year; this 2017 the country has received in the period from January to...

The Costa Rica Country Club in San Rafael, Heredia will host the first edition of the Castillo International Ice Hockey Tournament, an international ice hockey competition that will have the participation of four teams, three international and one national, the Castillo Knights from Costa Rica; the Canadian Citizens from Calgary; Stanley All-Stars from Folkland Islands and the Ruination from Los A...

Football Club Barcelona (FC Barcelona) has announced the opening of its second soccer school in Central America, this time it will be located in San José, Costa Rica; the first one was opened in early 2017 in Guatemala. This is part of the international expansion of the project FCBEscola and will represent the 37th school in the world and the 18th in the American Continent. FC Barcelona also...

The name Juan Carlos Bolaños has been appearing in all media outlets throughout Costa Rica almost daily for the past six months; he is the main character in the corruption scandal known as “Cementazo”, but who is this man? And, why, all of a sudden has he become one of Costa Rica’s most polemic characters. Juan Carlos Bolaños was born in San José, Costa Rica in June,1979 and he was raised by hi...

According to a report by ReportLinker Costa Rica's liberalised telecom sector has seen substantial growth in all sectors in recent years. Although competition was slow to develop there is now effective competition in all sectors. The state owned operator ICE remains the dominant provider of fixed-line services, while the regional operators Claro and Movistar are significant players in the importan...

A document apparently found by the district attorney’s office in the office of the former general manager of Banco de Costa Rica Mario Barrenechea during the search that took place November 3, showed a graphic with a “strategic plan” to discredit and boycott Costa Rican newspaper Diario Extra. This information was released today by Diario Extra and according to them the information was confirme...

For those of you following the china cement corruption scandal "Cementazo" in Costa Rica, this week has brought even more interesting things to light, affecting people such as the President of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solís. The President was put in the spotlight by congressman Víctor Hugo Morales Zapata who declared in front of the Commission investigating the ¨Cementazo¨ case that he always...

The Costa Rica Electricity Institute (ICE) will be auctioning a total of 267 used vehicles, among these: cars, motorcycles, and four-wheelers. In order to participate, those interested can go to the ICE in Rincón Grande de Pavas, between November 8 and November 17 from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to take a look at the vehicles, each of which will have a complete description. A deposit must be made f...

The 37th edition of WebCongress will be held in San José, Costa Rica on November 16 and November 17 at the National Auditorium. This event which provides information on the latest digital marketing trends and strategies is regarded as one of the most important digital marketing events in the world and is offers conferences by experts in the industry from renown companies such as Facebook, Link...

Mexican low-cost airline, Viva Aerobus, will begin operations in Costa Rica starting December 1st with the route San José- Cancún. The route will have initially a frequency of two times a week, Tuesdays and Fridays and only during the high season, with rates starting as low as $150.00. This is part of the expansion plan of Viva Aerobus that is already offering services from Mexico to Los Angele...

Costa Rican migration police at the Juan Santamaría International Airport detained a Mexican man who is one of the suspects of the robberies that occurred last Tuesday, October 31st in two jewelry stores in Escazú. Migration ad interim director, Esteban Obando, confirmed that the alert was given by the new digital system (Migración Visible) on Saturday night and the airport authorities immedia...

The Drug Control Police found 250 kilograms of cocaine hidden in two containers that arrived at Moín port in Limón, this Saturday. The investigations carried out by agents of the Drug Control Police (PCD) alerted them of a ship with a Panamanian flag that apparently was transporting several containers with drugs; the police therefore checked all the containers and found the cocaine hidden in th...

If you usually take the beltway (circunvalación) specifically the area that connects La Uruca with Los Anonos, take into consideration that it will have regulated traffic as of this Tuesday, November 5 . The National Roadways Council (Conavi) will be working on this 2.9 kilometers of road starting at 10 p.m. on Tuesday and will carry on 24 hours a day until concluded which means there will be r...

The Central America Sporting Games will take place starting December 3 through the 17 in Managua, Nicaragua; and Costa Rica will be taking a delegation of 410 athletes to participate in 27 disciplines. Basketball, boxing, wrestling, volleyball, soccer, softball, chess, surf, tennis, judo, baseball, rugby, are just part of the disciplines where Costa Rica will take part. The National Olymp...

The Bioinformatics Magazine of Oxford University regarded as the most important in the field of bioinformatics published this week details on a tool developed by Costa Rican scientists. The visualization portal for genetic variation (VizGVar) is a tool for interactive visualization of SNPs and somatic mutations in exons, genes and protein domains; in other words, it helps visualize the pattern...

This Saturday, November 5 the San José court sentenced Costa Rican businessman Juan Carlos Bolaños, president of SINOCEM and six executives of public bank Banco de Costa Rica who were all detained yesterday in relation to the “Cementazo” corruption case, to three months of preventive prision detention at the San Sebastián prison in San José which inmates describe as "hell on earth". The resolut...

Avery Martínez learned to love basketball early on in his life, since he is the son and nephew of two of the best Costa Rican basketball players, Henry Martínez and Kay Martínez. He is 18-years-old, and has been playing hoops since he is two. His dream is to one day reach the NBA, but he knows the road is long and hard, specially coming from a country where this sport doesn’t find the support t...

It is time to pay the marchamo again and if your car is not up to date with Riteve, the annual vehicle inspection, you won’t be able to get your marchamo, you still have time to get the inspection done of course, but take into consideration that as of November 10 prices will be adjusted. The Public Services Regulatory Agency (ARESEP) approved an adjustment of 35% in Riteve, after more than 12...

Four foreign tourists, whose identities have not been disclosed, decided to ignore the warning signs and security information and in their eagerness to seek adventure took one of the improvised trails that lead to the crater of the Arenal Volcano in La Fortuna, San Carlos. Apparently a small landslide caused the emergency and two of the tourists took the worse part, one of them had minor injuri...

Ashley Furniture HomeStore invested approximately US$4million in the opening of the second store in Costa Rica, which is located in La Fosforera Commercial Center in Heredia. The new store has 1700 square meters and 25 employees. This brand opened its first store in 2010 in Santa Ana, the first point of sale in Central and South America. This store offers furniture and accessories of all k...

A migration officer at the Juan Santamaría International Airport will be subjected to an investigation by her superiors after she allowed one of the suspects in the halloween robberies that took place last Tuesday, October 31, in Escazú, to exit the country. According to the General Direction of Migration and the digital system “Migración Visible” detected the alert in real time; however, for r...

Corporations that are currently considered “inactive” (which don’t have economic activity) but have assets registered such as houses and cars, must register as contributors of the Corporate Tax as it is established in the Law 9428 of Legal Entities. In order to comply with this obligation, the form “Declaración de Modificación de Datos” (Declaration of Data Modification) also known as form D-14...

“Jesus called in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a headcloth.” John 11:43 This bible passage is where the Ley Lázaro (Lazarus Law) gets its name. Lazarus Law, officially Law 9485 Reform of Corporate Taxes, was published in the official paper La Gaceta on October 19 to modify an articl...

If you still don’t have the basics of the “Cementazo” corruption case in Costa Rica, we invite you to read our previous article “Understanding the Cementazo” to get you up to date on this scandal that has occupied the covers of all Costa Rican newspapers and sites since late June this year. For the past few weeks the commission investigating the case has continued with the interviews with all p...

The Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) has identified five out of the nine man that robbed the Eurochronos jewelry and the Tiempo Global jewelry in Multiplaza Escazú and Plaza Colonial respectively this past October 31st and confirmed they are of Mexican origin. The group reportedly entered the country at the end of October and stayed in different hotels in the San José area, which they abando...