Leilani McGonagle and Emily Gussoni concluded their participation in the US Open of Surfing where they took part of the Supergirl WQS 6,000 that took place at “Surf City”, Huntington Beach in California. McGonagle finished in ninth place making it to Round 6 of the event. Unfortunately Emily Gussoni didn’t make it past round 2 of the event. The Supergirl event had a total of 128 participan...

Coriport the current concessionaire of the Daniel Oduber Airport in Liberia is looking to take complete control of the airport and is offering to cover the repair and work that the airstrip requires. Coriport’s has the concession contract since 2010 and is looking to convince the Technical Council of Civil Aviation (CETAC) to approve the extension of the contract. Under the current contract the...

This Sunday, August 6th children will be able to see their favorite characters on stage at the Private Schools Expo 2017 at the Pedregal Events Center in Heredia starting at 2 p.m. Peppa Pig, the Minions, Sponge Bob and Mario Bros will be part of the international show that is being presented for the first time in Costa Rica. The event is prepared for a small crowd of up to 400 people; it’s an ...

On Monday, August 21, 2017 many will be able to witness a wonderful phenomenon, people in the United States will get to see a Total Eclipse of the Sun, while in Costa Rica it will be seen as a Partial Eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between the sun and the Earth and blocks the sun totally or partially; in a total eclipse the sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) beco...

One of the best things about Costa Rica is that there are still so many remote locations where national and foreign tourists can find peace and relaxation, Recreo Hotel in La Cruz de Guanacaste is one of these places. This resort remains one of the country’s secrets, not many know about it and because of its remote location it is not a popular destination. Recreo is a villa community just a sho...

Employers in Costa Rica have always been obligated to pay social security for their workers including domestic help, housekeepers or maids; however, in the past “Caja” (Costa Rica Public Health and Social Security Administration, CCSS) didn’t offer a possibility for those maids that only worked part time or by the hour, or had several employers; the only option was to report the worker with a mini...

Being constantly stressed has a lot of negative repercussions in our body, our teeth, believe it or not, are also affected by our hectic life. Recently actress Demi Moore, made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and she went on to explain that she had sheared off her front teeth, both of them, because of stress. “Stress over a long period of time, or what is considered chro...

Photo: ICE offices Sabana The Costa Rica Electricity Institute (ICE) will be auctioning 17 of its properties next August 14 in order to cut expenses and generate additional income. “These are properties that belong to ICE (13) and the National Power and Light Company (CNFL) (4), selling them will generate income for the companies and savings in operational and maintenance costs”, explained F...

This Sunday, July 30, the National Museum in San José will host the “Alma Guanacasteca” festival as part of the activities commemorating the annexation of the Guanacaste province, celebrated July 25th. The event starts at 10 a.m. and extends through 3 p.m., it includes traditional dances, music, a guided tour through the exhibit of Costa Rica’s History among other samples of the rich Guanacaste...

In the recent months several cases of fraud with promotional tour packages have been reported, and this has raised the alert of the consumer protection authorities in Costa Rica that will be performing stricter controls of companies that offer tourism services. In the past two years the National Consumer Commission has received at least 641 legal complaints, including breach of contract and fra...

Nat Geo announced the second season of its digital series Untamed with Filipe DeAndrade; the filmmaker and his colleagues and friends McKenzie Barney and Brian Moghari explore the wildlife of Costa Rica and will bring the audience closer to the many wonders the country has to offer. The filming of Untamed in Costa Rica began the first week of July and will extend for six months, the second seas...

This past July 25 the changes to the Labor Procedural Law of Costa Rica (Reforma Procesal Laboral) entered into force; this is the biggest change this law has seen since the Labor Code was published in 1943. The modification of this law involved the derogation of 16 articles, the incorporation of 89 new ones and changes to almost half the original code. If you have business in Costa Rica or...

Engineering for Kids and the Costa Rican Chamber of Technology, Information and Communication are opening the course “Design and Programming of Video Games” for children between the ages of 4 and twelve in Costa Rica. The classes will begin in August in La Uruca where Engineering for Kids is located, every Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. starting August 5 and concluding October 28. ...

The fourth season of the dance competition Dancing With The Stars Costa Rica announced tonight the names of the ten celebrities that will be part of the television show, among them, Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, former ambassador of the United States in Costa Rica. Fitzgerald concluded his term in July 14th and confirmed then that his family and him were happy in the country and would stay in Cost...

Isla Chiquita Glamping is the name of the new luxury glamping option in Costa Rica, located in Jesusita Island in the Nicoya Gulf, Puntarenas and that opened in April this year. For those of you not familiar with the term Glamping, it means “Glamorous Camping”, an option that combines the thrill of the outdoors experience but without sacrificing the comfort of a hotel. This new concept is ...

If you like wine and you are looking to experience something new in Costa Rica this weekend, here are some options that you may want to consider: Vintage Don Teófilo: The last vintage or wine grape harvest of the year in the Don Teófilo vineyard will take place on Sunday, July 30. Located in the community of Grifo Alto de Puriscal. This artisan winery came to life in 1989 and currently produc...

Twelve Costa Rican designers had the opportunity to showcase their talent at the Swim Week 2017 in Miami, Florida which took place July 21-23 at Soho House Hotel. Guayaberi Swimwear, Fabrizzio Berrocal, Nomadic Collector, Etérea, Lolita Mia, John Howard, MEBKIKIS, Makalo Swimwear, Ana Gutierrez, NINFO Swimwear, Tres Tropical and Elha Jewerly are the twelve companies that took part in this event...

We always hear complaints about the lack of entertainment options in the city for teenagers in Costa Rica, places like Laser Tag have come to fill this gap, but it still seems as though there aren’t enough alternatives still to cater to this market, and they end up watching a movie and walking around the mall. Escape Room Costa Rica is an entertainment option for this population and it is also gr...

August 2 is a holiday in Costa Rica, it’s a day reserved to honor the country’s patron saint, the Vírgen de los Angeles or “La Negrita” as Costa Ricans refer to her. The tradition in the country for catholic faithful involves a pilgrimage, “La Romería”, to the church in Cartago that was built in honor of La Negrita, “La Basílica de Los Angeles”. Hundreds of thousands, some say more than a...

Barrio Escalante in the east of the capital city of San José is known as a Gastronomy Walk, an area where many different restaurants can be found; now in the west of San José, more precisely in Plaza Tempo Escazú there’s El Mestizo, a new Gastronomy Market where visitors can find 13 different culinary options all in one place. Here are some of the alternatives you’ll find at El Mestizo: Kami...

Photo: Vinos don Teófilo Costa Rica When we choose a bottle of wine we usually go for wine produced in France, perhaps Chile, Australia or even California; most certainly Costa Rica won’t be in your top 10 or even top 20, no one could blame you, Costa Rica is not known for its wine, but there are some entrepreneurs that have been working on changing this for several years now. In recent yea...

Feuji, a services company specialized in providing technology and cloud services solutions, officially announced its establishment in Costa Rica and hiring 150 additional employees for the remainder of 2017. The company, located in Ultra Park 1, already employs 70 people and will add 150 jobs/positions. The company foresees that its operation may require up to 500 employees to meet the operatio...

The Westin Golf Resort and Spa in Playa Conchal, Guanacaste, was recognized by renown British magazine Luxury Travel Guide, as the “Luxury Golf Resort of Costa Rica 2017”. Luxury Travel Guide recognizes every year the best tourism destinations around the world, in order to give out the awards they take into consideration several aspects such as guest reviews and recommendations, evaluations by ...

Six Costa Rican surfers will take part in the biggest surfing event in the world, the Vans US Open of Surfing, that will be held July 31 through August 6 at “Surf City”, Huntington Beach in California The event includes four World Surf League (WSL) events; the men who take part of the Qualifying Series (QS) are going after 10,000 valuable points toward the Championship Tour Qualification. Car...

Canadian chef William Ayre and Costa Rican Business Administrator and Financial Analyst Daniel Loría met in high school; now, 15 years later they are partners in a new business, Hawaiian food restaurant Poke which opened doors June 13. Poke is located in Plaza Tempo, Escazú and required an investment of close to US $120,000.00. Poke is a Hawaiian dish involving raw fish salad served in a bowl. ...

In just the first half of 2017, Costa Rica has reached a new record in clean energy production and received their latest Biosphere Reserve declaration by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)—solidifying their unshakable commitment to sustainability. During the first six months of the year, 99 percent of Costa Rica's electricity came from renewable sources, a...

Hyunday Team pilot, Danny Formal, won the fourth date of the Costa Rica Touring Car Championship that took place this past Sunday at Parque Viva. In an exciting event that had the most accidents so far in the CTCC, Formal was able to win the first place and cut the distance from the still leader of the general ranking José Andrés MOntalto from Toyota. Ford driver, Felipe Vargas, lost control o...

Jason Torres from Jacó and 12-year-old Valentina Resano from Nicaragua are the National Surfing Champions 2017. The Reef Final of the “Kölbi” National Surfing Tournament took place this weekend at Hermosa Beach, Puntarenas and left two new National Champions, Valentina Resano and Jason Torres in the open female and male categories respectively. Torres and Resano took the titles that until to...

Photo Credit: Universidad Hispanoamericana /Freddy Alvarez project Architect Freddy Alvarez presented a proposal to create a marina in Limón Port as his graduation project “Transformation of the port space- tourism marina Limón Port”; the proposal raised the interest of the authorities of the Interinstitutional Commission of Tourism Marinas and Piers (CIMAT) which is an organ affiliated to the ...

The production of coffee around the world, including Costa Rica could be affected by climate change, stated experts and authorities in Colombia, which also warned no country is ready to face these problems. Because of how sensitive coffee plants are to small fluctuations in temperature as the temperature goes up this will affect the coffee production which in the past few years has been overtak...

The Food Week festival is carried out in several cities like New York, USA; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Madrid, Spain, with great success; it is a great opportunity for people to try some of the best restaurants in their city at great prices. This event arrived to San José, Costa Rica this year for the first time. Even though the name of the festival is “Food Week” it actually goes on for seve...

Photo: USMNT now in the Gold Cup final Costa Rica’s male national soccer team and its equal from the USA, met in the semi-finals of the Gold Cup 2017 at the AT&T stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, where Costa Rica lost 2-0 to the US. The first 90’ minutes came and went without any goals, but there were several opportunities to score by both teams. Actually just fifteen minutes into the...

San José has many hidden jewels, many places that are unknown to foreigners and even to locals that don’t take the time to discover this city; you will be surprised to find some great restaurants and bars in downtown San José, and here we give you six awesome restaurants right in Costa Rica’s capital city that you should definitely take the time to try: 1) Coconut: Many people complain about ho...

The fourth date of the Costa Rica Touring Car Championship CTCC takes place this Sunday, July 23 at Parque Viva. In the third date, the Shell Endurance Cup that took place May 14, it was the Toyota Team that took the first place with the impeccable driving of José Andrés Montalto, while Andrés Saravia from Chevrolet and Felipe Vargas from Ford took the second and third places respectively for...

Mayca Food Service, a distributer of food service and bakery products in Costa Rica, inaugurated its new distribution center in El Coyol, Alajuela. The new facilities will serve as headquarters for the regional expansion the company announced in September of 2016 when they opened a similar establishment in Panama under the brand Sysco (Sysco Corp. owns 50% of Mayca's shares since 2014); they ar...

Aeris, the company in charge of the operations of the Juan Santamaría Airport, launched the artistic exhibit “Paraíso Infinito de Posibilidades” , “Paradise of Endless Possibilities”, with the goal of bringing tourists closer to the Costa Rican culture and natural beauty through photographs and sculptures by national artists. “We have been working on this type of initiatives since 2014 through ...

Flying through Air France and KLM from San José, Costa Rica has plenty of advantages; the companies offer what is known as “joint rate”, which means travelers can fly out of San José with Air France and fly back with KLM or vice versa without additional charges or fees; in addition, clients will be able to visit up to three destinations for the price of a round trip ticket. “If for example some...

Costa Rican domestic airline Nature Air, is going through some internal changes that have caused problems this week in their regular operations. According to Aeroinfo Costa Rica, the company has recently fired its General Manager and four of its small plans were not allowed to fly this week because of problems with its rental contracts. According to Aeris' operation manager, company in charge o...

On minute 5:55 of the video below, you can hear Floyd Mayweather mentioning some weeks back he had a sparring he was working with from Costa Rica and that had a "very awkward" style, in response to analyst's Brendan Schaub comment that he had never fought someone that moved like Conor McGregor and if he had anyone in his camp that could "mimic his movement". Since then, there had been rumors on wh...

This Saturday and Sunday Parque Viva will host the Chakók gastronomy festival with dishes from different corners of the world. In total 30 restaurants representing 9 regions will have a presence, as well as 10 food trucks, wine distributors and 20 different craft beers. Mexican, Italian, Peruvian, Argentinian, Chinease, Indian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean dishes as well as BBQ, gourmet...