Comic Con will have its first ever edition in Costa Rica in 2020, the event will take place July 4th and 5th at Parque Viva. Comic Convention events began in San Diego, California, and its a non-profit public benefit event organized for charitable purposes and dedicated to creating the public´s appreciation for comics and related popular art forms and their contribution ot art and culture. ...

On Thanksgiving, two American citizens were detained at Juan Santamaria Airport under suspicion of money laundering. Their names are Collin Andrew Skees (25) and Benjamin Edward Howze (41). They were traveling to the United States with $644,344 in clean bills, wrapped like drugs are often smuggled, in layers of plastic, all tucked among clean changes of underwear for Skees and Howze, in their carr...

A head-on collision that took place at 4:28 a.m. this Monday morning in the area of Colorado, Curubande, Liberia, Guanacaste took the lives of two Americans, the victims were identified as Enisha Lashelle Roberson, 38 years of age and her six year old son Cannon Anthony Roberson, a third person also died in the tragic accident, Costa Rican Allan Gerardo Pereira Leiva, age 39 (driver). Anthon...

Costa Rica's National Technical Environmental Secretariat (Secretaría Técnica Nacional Ambiental, Setena) recently granted a permit to a Project by Corporation Agricola del Monte S.A.-Pindeco for a plantation of 494.4 hectares in a property that is located right next to the Terraba -Sierpe Wetlands. Setena disregarded the objections presented by environmentalists and granted viability to the pr...

Two American citizens were arrested at Juan Santamaria Airport on Thursday, November 28, and charged with money laundering. They arrived on a flight from Los Angeles, but were scheduled to fly out again two hours later on a flight to Atlanta. They are a 25-year old with last name of Skees, and a 41-year old with the last name of Howze. They were carrying more than turkey stuffing: between the two ...

Trawling continues to be a topic of discussion for the Government of Costa Rica, this week, congressmen approved in first debate a bill that would bring back shrimp trawling, in total the bill, presented by deputies Melvin Nuñez from the National Restoration party, known as the Law for for Sustainable Exploitation of Shrimp Fishing, received 26 votes in favor and 18 against. This bill proposes...

Two American men tried to enter Costa Rica through the Juan Santamaria International Airport carrying a total of $644,344.00 in their carry-on luggage. The information was confirmed by the Ministry of Public Security. Apparently one of the men is 25 years old and of last name Skees and the second one is 41 years of age and surname Howze. Both man have a clean criminal record. According to ...

Ministry of Planning and Economic Policy (MIDEPLAN) gave the Costa Rican Train Institute (INCOFER) t total of over $560 thousand dollars to carry out the necessary feasibility studies of the or the project of reconstruction of 131 kilometers of train track between Alajuela and Puntarenas. “The reactivation of the Train to the Pacific” is one of the key projects of Incofer framed within the I...

When we reached out to residency specialist Laura B. Gutiérrez of Immigration Help CR, she told us there is often confusion about children of ex-pats in Costa Rica and the need for them to have residency. While strictly optional for any dependent child under age 18, it is advisable for them to apply for and obtain residency at the same time as the parents. The procedures and required documentat...

The owner of the sportsbook company 5Dimes was kidnapped on September 24, 2018, on his way home from work after having dropped off an employee in Granadilla, Curridabat, at about 10PM. Then he disappeared. Not too many hours after Creighton’s kidnap, his wife began receiving ransom calls. The kidnappers demanded $5 million dollars. They wanted it paid in virtual currency, specifically in Bitcoi...

Procter & Gamble (P&G) continues to consolidate its presence in Costa Rica, and has announced that it will hire 150 more people during 2020 in the areas of information technology, finance and logistics. The announcement was made during P&G's celebration of its 20th anniversary in the country, which was attended by the President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado; David Taylor, CEO of P&G; Dyalá Jim...

The Garabito Municipality have begun using modern equipment known as the "Barber Surf Rake" towed by a tractor that allows the cleaning of one kilometer of beach every 15 minutes, in the case of Jaco, the whole beach can be cleaned within one hour. The machine made in the United States and with a value of 40 million colones (close to $69,155.00 USD) uses a system of chains to collect garbage. ...

A moderately strong earthquake was felt the evening of this Sunday, November 24 in Costa Rica. According to the National Seismologic Network (RSN) the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.4 and the epicenter was to the Northeast of Arancibia, Puntarenas due to the subduction of Cocos plate The movement took place at 7:33 p.m. and it was felt in San José, Cartago, Heredia...

According to the University of Costa Rica (UCR), there are some 144 species of snakes in Costa Rica. A new one was identified last month by two nature tourist guides, during a night walk in the Drake Bay of the Osa Peninsula. Welcome snake Number 145. The snake is a Dwarf Snake of Barbour, or a Trimetopon Barburi Dipsadidae, and has previously only been seen in Panama. The guides, Gianfranco Gomez...

American Airlines inaugurated this Thursday its new daily flight that will connect the JFK International Airport in New York and the Juan Santamaria Airport in San Jose. The first flight landed at 8:30 p.m. in Costa Rica with 160 people aboard. “This new route is an example of our commitment to Costa Rica”, commented Rafael Sánchez, Regional head of Operations for American Airlines. “Very ...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) informed that Costa Rica received the approval of the seventeenth committee required to finalize the process of joining this organization: the Investment Committee. With this, there are just five pending approvals, necessary to reach the ambitious goal by May 2020. The approval was achieved after completing an exhaustive evaluation o...

A man with the last name Rojas Mendiola, a resident of Drake Bay in Osa, Puntarenas was detained by the Judicary Investigative Police (OIJ) as a suspect of working with a Colombian drug trafficking group assisting in the logistics to transport drugs coming from Colombia and going to North America. The drug trafficking group which has established operations in Costa Rica moved cocaine and mariju...

Thanks to a strong inter-institutional coordination, the support of the community and the private sector, the Ministry of Energy and Environment (MINAE) was able to implement several improvements at the Manuel Antonio National Park to respond to tourist visitation, guaranteeing the protection of ecosystems and the good service to visitors. This National Park, created in 1972, protects 352 plant...

On Sunday, November 17th, Fox TV aired episode #669 of the famous cartoon family The Simpsons, in “Livin’ La Pura Vida”, in which the entire Simpson family and members of their Springfield community visit Costa Rica on vacation. Amazing. La Nacion newspaper commented about the episode, saying that it “without a doubt, positions tourist information (about Costa Rica) before the eyes of the world.” ...

Spanish newspaper El Mundo published an article n which they listed San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica as one of the 10 ugliest destinations in the world. Costa Rica continues to attract millions of tourists every year, but it is no secret that the capital city has little to do with the attractions the country has to offer, the beaches and the volcanoes as well as the rain forests take a...

As it was announced just a few days back, the US glam rock band “KISS” will be offering a concert in Costa Rica, the details of this event have now been revealed by Move Concerts, the production company in charge of bringing the iconic band to the country. “KISS will arrive for the first and only time to Costa Rica under the production of Move Concerts and Mercury Concerts, as part of their far...

The last Art City Tour of the year will take place November 22 this time the theme is “Night in White: Tour in Augmented Reality” and it will offer 100 activities in 36 spaces. Art City Tours are free cultural events that take the public in night tours through different emblematic places of San Jose, Costa Rica; museums, galleries, historic buildings, etc . with the objective not only of promot...

$3.9 million is the approximate amount that will be invested in the opening of three Olive Garden restaurants in Costa Rica in the upcoming three years. The investment group AR Holdings, member of Promerica Group will bring to Costa Rica the Italian food chain restaurant, the biggest in the United States with 850 locations. The first restaurant is scheduled to open in Escazú in 2020, with an...

Congratulations to Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada for his recent nomination to TIME Magazine’s 100 NEXT for his “great ambition in tackling climate change.” This honor comes on the heels of the United Nations recognizing Costa Rica this year as a “United Nations Champion of the Earth”, for its trailblazing approach and ambitious climate policies. Alvarado became president in 2018...

Between October 7 and November 7, 2019, Costa Rica has recorded 63 violent deaths – a murder every 12 hours – according to the OIJ (Organismo de Investigacion Judicial). They report a total of 476 homicides to date, an increase from the 413 homicides reported last year, despite an expanded police force and repeated pledges by the Minister of Security that homicide rates were going to drop. What...

An investigation carried out by the International Center of Economic Politics for Sustainable Development of the National University, that used data from 2016 to calculate the contribution of the country’s National Parks to Costa Rica’s finances put in evidence not only the ecologic importance but also the economic importance, social and institutional which is reflected in activities such as touri...

As part of a campaign to protect the Cocos Island UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society partnered with Costa Rica's Ministry of Environment to collect and transport 34 tons of marine pollution, illegal shark finning long lines, and other confiscated fishing gear, which had been accumulating on the remote volcanic island of Cocos for over 25 years. For a one-time project,...

Costa Rican biker Kenneth Tencio qualified this Saturday to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 even though he did not reach the final of the BMX Freestyle World Championship taking place in Chengdu, China. Tencio came out on Saturday taking risks as he usually does at the semifinal, his repertoire was edgy and he landed position 13. “I am happy to reach the Olympic Games, all efforts done this s...

Costa Rica (Rich Coast), has become a favorite playground for rich and famous Americans, i.e. Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Gisele Bundchen, Mel Gibson, Usher, Leonardo DiCaprio, and many other celebrity Americans who visit Costa Rica to unwind, relax and have quality time with their families. Recently Kim Kardashian’s oldest daughter, North West, daughter of Kanye West, and barely 6-years old, has f...

The sixth edition of Life in Color "World´s Largest Paint Party" will take place on Friday, December 6, at the Pedregal Events Center in San Antonio de Belen, Heredia. This year Major Lazer is the headliner of this show that gathers every year thousands of people, "For JOGO, this sixth edition of Life in Color Costa Rica is a reward to the effort and hard work of many years, it means believing ...

In a previous article we wrote about a new regulation that took effect during September 2019. Basically, every type of corporation in Costa Rica is enforced to disclose who are the stockholders to Central Bank of Costa Rica. This will take place between September 2019 and January 2020, depending on the last ID number on the “cedula juridica”. If the owner of the stock on a corporation are other co...

Sun Country Airlines announced it will be adding the route the Costa Rica-Dallas route to its options starting the summer of 2020. Sun Country will connect Dallas, -Fort Worth (DFW) to Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR) during the months of June, July and August 2020, with a flight departing at 8:00 a.m. from the Dallas Fort Worth airport ad arriving at the Daniel Oduber airport in Liberia, Guanacaste a...

US glam rock band “Kiss” officially announced the new dates and stops of its world tour “End of the Road” and Costa Rica is on their list for April 2020. The “End of the Road” farewell tour began this year and will carry on through July, 2021 with the band’s final concert in New York; the band will have two shows in Central America, one in El Salvador and the one in Costa Rica, the dates were ...

The U.S. Embassy San Jose announced it recently joined the worldwide initiative AirNow that provides real time data on air quality via the website airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.global_summary. The U.S. Embassy installed an air quality device that measures air quality in order to protect the health of the population and contribute to air monitoring efforts by scientists and the Costa Rican ...

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) granted Costa Rica a loan of $550 million to support the construction, equipment and start of operations of the Fast Passenger Train for the Great Metropolitan Area. The total cost of the project is estimated on $1,297 million, the balance would come from private companies through public-private alliance, the government will carry out ...

Next Sunday, November 10, Hawaiiian singer Jack Johnson and his band will offer a live performance for the first time in Costa Rica, at the Coca Copa Amphitheater at Parque Viva, the concert will begin at 7 p.m. “Jack Johnson grew up surfing and playing his guitar in Hawaii and his debut album Brushfire Fairytales was released in 2001, since then he has released another 6 studio albums and 2 li...

A reform to the Immigration Control Regulation, promoted by the Costa Rican Promotion Investment Agency (CINDE), the Ministry of Foreign Trade (Comex),together with the General Direction of Immigration, will allow foreigners, who are in the process of approval of residence procedures, the opportunity to work while the application is being resolved. Decree No. 41890-MGP represents a huge advance...

Jamaican police reported earlier this month that the leaders of several criminal gangs in Jamaica have left their little island, and relocated to Costa Rica where they are allegedly living quite the high life, while continuing their dangerous criminal activities. The OIJ (Organismo de Investigacion) has been analyzing this situation over the last five years – especially the unusual number of Jamai...

Costa Rica wants to become the first country to regulate the incidence of cruel or inadequate selfies involving wild animals, this through the initiative #stopanimalselfies. A study carried out by World Animal Protection (WAP) in 2017, placed Costa Rica in the seventh place of the world in the number of inadequate photographs and selfies involving wild animals. In response to this and committed...

Costa Rican Drug Control Police (PCD) detected during one of their routine revisions at APM Terminals in Limon a total of 954 kilograms of cocaine inside a container carrying a legal load of banana pulp with lemon concentrate. According to the information released by the Ministry of Public Security, the 20 feet container had Belgium as its destination. Agents of the PCD detected 29 briefcases h...