Wikimedia Commons (PRWEB UK) -- Green Motion, the low CO2 car rental company, has officially launched their Autumn Sale to coincide with their 8th Anniversary. Customers can now receive great savings on their car hire in all of Green Motion’s worldwide locations. Green Motion has locations in over 20 countries including Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, F...

A complaint that unfolded in social media circles has caught the attention of the media and the Ministry of Public Security (Spanish initials: MSP) in Costa Rica. According to a news report filed by metro reporter Paula Ruiz of daily newspaper La Prensa Libre, the incident occurred this past Saturday in San Jose. A woman by the last name of Madden was relaxing in Plaza de la Cultura, a major me...

Wikimedia Commons The Director of Intelligence and National Security of Costa Rica and his romantic partner, who happens to be the Vice Minister of Economy, reportedly held a meeting at a bar in the lovable city of San Jose. According to a news report filed by investigative journalist Carlos Mora of online news daily CRHoy.com, Director Mariano Figueres and Vice Minister Geannina Dinarte ar...

Still from Cosmos Laundromat. Source: Blender Pataz Studio, a boutique 3D animation and computer graphic imaging (CGI) outfit from Costa Rica, is currently involved in the Gooseberry Open Movie Project, coordinated by Blender. The Gooseberry Project consists of a feature film titled Cosmos Laundromat, which is written and produced by a coalition of more than 12 international animation studi...

Source: MSP A 49-year old male tourist attempted to leave Costa Rica with a belly full of cocaine, but his skittish and queasy disposition caused him to vomit 64 packets filled with cocaine, right in front of officers from the Drug Control Police (Spanish initials: PCD) at the airport. According to a press release from the Ministry of Public Security (Spanish initials: MSP), the incident oc...

Tourism Police Assisting Backpackers. Source: Fuerza Publica British Embasy Media Release - Glass fragments. Chemical composition. Blood patterns. Conclusive evidence. It’s a Tuesday afternoon at the Centro Cultural Británico in San José and police officers taking their weekly English lesson are furiously transcribing the key phrases that the English teacher has scribbled on the whiteboard:...

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America Media Release - For several years, people in the Pavas district of Costa Rica were experiencing an increase in crime and in youth marijuana use. But after a coalition was formed, thanks to the training and assistance from CADCA, local citizens developed a planning process and began implementing evidence-based prevention strategies. CADCA began working i...

Source: Pixabay Commons Public Domain It took more than two officers from Fuerza Publica, the national police force of Costa Rica, to take down a naked man who -for some reason- was chanting one of the many names of the chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell, at least in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic faiths. According to a news report filed by metro ...

FEALAC archive photo The Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC) is currently taking place in San Jose. Yesterday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea held a press briefing on this matter: Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will attend the seventh Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC), which will take ...

Wikiemedia Commons San Jose, August 9th, 2015 (Press Release by The Costa Rica Star) – When it comes to dental tourism in Costa Rica, prospective patients tend to be concerned with more than just the cost of their treatment. While it is true that dental procedures in Costa Rica are substantially lower than in North America and Europe, medical tourists are also interested by the quality of care...

Source: Pixabay Commons Last week, agents from the Office of Judicial Investigations (Spanish initial: OIJ) arrested a 40-year old expatriate man and charged him with deriving proceeds off prostitution, a criminal offense often referred to as “pimping.” The arrest was carried out during an afternoon raid on a residence in the Plaza Viquez district, located just south of the capital city of Cos...

Source: AmaTierra Feria Verde, an upmarket version of the Feria del Agricultor (Farmers Market) tradition of Costa Rica, is coming to Ciudad Colon, located just outside the western suburbs of San Jose. By Jill Rutenberg The Feria Verde and Organic Market is deliciously off and running on the west side of town with Tuesday’s opening of the organic market in Ciudad Colon. “It’s about time....

Source: Wikimedia Commons Three male suspects wearing black fatigues and armed with shotguns stormed into the Promerica Bank branch located inside the Office Depot store in the upscale community of Escazu, located in the western suburbs of the capital city of Costa Rica. According to a new report filed by metro reporter Jason Torres of online news daily Costa Rica Hoy, the suspects took 250...

Source: Flickr Commons A planned group sex party involving two expats and three citizens of Costa Rica was crudely disrupted by the shooting death of a 28-year old man. The ghastly incident took place in Tibas, a community located in the northern suburbs of San Jose, and it is currently being investigated as a contract killing. According to a news report filed by metro reporter Jorge Sancho...

Wikimedia Commons Three delivery and distribution workers from the British American Tobacco Group in Costa Rica were rescued by law enforcement officers after being taken hostage by two suspects, one of them armed with a pellet gun. According to metro reporter Alejandro Fonseca of daily tabloid Diario Extra, the incident occurred near the dairy farming community of Coronado, located in the out...

Source: Flickr Commons A criminal trial for the murder of two men at a bar in the southern suburbs of San Jose made headlines in Costa Rica yesterday, which was when a witness who was in a sexual relationship with the accused killer took the stand. Wearing tight clothing and high heels, the attractive woman confessed that she was a prostitute hired by the defendant, and that they were having s...

Amazon.com Internet retail giant Amazon.com will hold a job fair in Costa Rica this week. According to a report filed by business reporter Rebeca Madrigal of online news daily CRHoy.com, the job fair will take place at Amazon’s business center in Calle Blancos on Thursday, July 9th, from 7 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon.   Amazon Costa Rica is currently seeking to fill posi...

Pixabay Comons Institute of African Studies, Columbia University -- The second conference on "The Meaning of Blackness" will be held at the Universidad de Costa Rica on February 12-14, 2016. The conference follows on the first, successful, conference which was held in February 2014, whose proceedings are being published in Spanish and as an e-book by Universidad de Costa Rica Press and in Engl...

Solar power recharging station for electric vehicles in Costa Rica Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., 29 June 2015 — Experts and leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean gathered in San Jose, Costa Rica today to increase the development of solar thermal energy in the region. The two-day forum, co-organized by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the Latin America Energy Organization (...

4Grinz.com San Jose, Costa Rica  (Marketwired - June 30, 2015) - Today's players are looking for the most immersive online casino games that are interactive, sophisticated, and very polished. They want the fun of playing for free with the option of gambling and games should be optimized for tablets and smartphones. 4Grinz.com achieves this and more, offering hundreds of state-of-the-art games ...

National Museum of Costa Rica By Maria Jose Brenes San Jose, Jun 22 (EFE).- The San Jose Museum Walking Tour, which goes on for less than a kilometer (about half a mile) through the Costa Rican capital, reveals the sounds, origins, use and morphology of the musical instruments that sounded in pre-Columbian communities. Under the title "Ancestral Echoes," the Central Bank Museum of Costa ...

New York, June 18, 2015 – Although Costa Rica continues to draw investors from around the world, challenges remain when it comes to boosting investment levels. Since taking office, President Luis Guillermo Solís has worked to increase the volume and nature of foreign direct investment. Despite the region’s weakening trade environment, the International Monetary Fund projects Costa Rica’s GDP to gr...

IsmaelCala.com SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Last Saturday in Costa Rica, the well-known TV host, inspirational author, and lecturer, Ismael Cala introduced his foundation, which bears his name. Its mission is to work with other institutions to promote leadership and vocational education for children and young people in Latin America as well as for latinos in the United S...

Source: Imgur A mysterious work of art painted with hyperrealistic overtones has attracted the attention of the massively popular online portal Reddit. The painting features a scene familiar to those who transit the Avenida Central (Central Avenue) boulevard, a heavy pedestrian traffic artery that bisects the capital city of Costa Rica from east to west.   The first online mention o...

Scientology objects of faith. Wikimedia Commons Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 12, 2015 – Costa Rican Scientologists, proud that their country was named one of the three happiest nations on earth by the Happy Planet Index this year, are taking a proactive approach to make sure it stays that way, promoting drug-free living with a drug-awareness walk in the center of the nation’s capital, San Jose...

SCG International website San José, Costa Rica, June 12, 2015 --(PR.com) -- As of May 21, 2015, Software & Consulting Group (SCG) has officially joined forces with ProCons4IT in order to offer a solution that caters the specific needs of small and midsize enterprises of the automotive industry in the MENA region, specifically Qatar, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey and the Arab Emirates. Other in...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, May 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Vegascasino.io is a new player in the Bitcoin gambling market, but boasts an experienced team of professionals behind the platform. The team comes from a fiat currency gambling background running casinos, sportsbooks and poker for over a decade: It is a new and an exciting venture for us. Bitcoin popularity is growing every day and we want to m...

Volaris MEXICO CITY, May 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Volaris (NYSE: VLRS and BMV: VOLAR), the ultra low cost Mexican airline with the most extensive route network servicing Mexico and the US, announced today their incursion into the Costa Rica market with the launch of two new flights from Cancun, Quintana Roo and Guadalajara, Jalisco to Costa Rica's capital city, San Jose, starting on September ...

Diego, the fourth baby delivered to a couple who had sought fertility treatments in Costa Rica, passed away in his incubator at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of the San Juan de Dios Hospital, a flagship medical center that is part of the national public health care system. According to a news report filed by journalist Lady Rojas of online news daily Costa Rica Hoy, baby Diego weighed...

Good news for British and European travelers awaiting the new flights by Thomson Airways and First Choice to Costa Rica. According to online travel news site TravelMole.com, Thomson will soon receive four new and shiny Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, which will be used for long haul flights to select destinations, including the Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO) in Costa Rica. Located in the...

Source: Wikimedia Commons San Jose, May 18 (EFE).- The first sextuplets in the history of Costa Rica - four boys and two girls - were born by Cesarean section at San Jose's Mexico Hospital, a spokesperson of the medical center said Monday. The sextuplets are doing well, though their birth Sunday night was premature after only six weeks of gestation, and for that reason they are being protec...

Real Madrid's Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo (R) fights for the ball with Ivory defender Eric Bertrand Bailly (L) of Villarreal during the Primera Division soccer match played at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain on 01 March 2015. EFE The legendary Real Madrid football club of the Spanish League could visit Costa Rica to play an exhibition match at the Chinese-donated National S...

Source: Hoes and Gangstas May 8, 2015 – (PRSYNC) – A new Costa Rica-based company has launched a sophisticated and playful, but affordable, collection of sunglasses that come in two names: Hoes and Gangstas. The styles are in total black or brown tortoise shell, available for safe purchase with PayPal and shipping worldwide. Hoes n Gangstas the new way to wear sunglasses in Costa Rica. Gett...

Source: Fast Casual BOSTON, MA, May 7, 2015 -- Così, Inc. (NASDAQ: COSI), the fast casual restaurant company, today announced that its franchisee, Fast Casual S.A., has opened its fifth Così® restaurant location in Costa Rica in the Sabana Business Center in San Jose, across from the International Soccer Stadium, in Costa Rica. "We are pleased to announce the opening of another new Così® resta...

Source: Access LIVERMORE, Calif., May 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Rob Alston, CEO of Access, has announced the company's recent expansion in Costa Rica and its entrance into Panama as well as Trinidad and Tobago. In October 2014, Access acquired Datasafe, a leader in document management based in Panama City,Panama, from Semah Investments. W. Price Brannon, CIO of Access and its Chief Operating ...

"Kanamara Matsuri 2007 (phallus festival)-crop" by Saya M. - Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Over a period of two days, a trendy Japanese restaurant in the capital city of Costa Rica celebrated the traditional Shinto Kanamara Matsuri (the Festival of the Steel Phallus) with an unusual gastronomical display that tested the decorum of diners. According to lifestyle jour...

Tourism Police Assisting Backpackers. Source: Fuerza Publica Physical fitness training paid off for an officer from the downtown precinct of the Tourism Police in San Jose as he made an arrest yesterday. According to a press release published by the Ministry of Public Security (Spanish initials: MSP), an unnamed Tourism Police officer patrolling the Central Park perimeter on foot sprung to act...

Source: Flickr Commons In the capital city of Costa Rica, commuters heading to work or school in the early morning hours of Tuesday were left aghast when they witnessed a man jump from the fourth floor balcony of his hotel room. According to a report filed by metro reporter Krissia Morris Gray of daily tabloid Diario Extra, the incident occurred at the Hotel Costa Rica Morazan, not far from an...

Source: FAO (US Federal Register)  - The Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sponsored a public meeting on March 19, 2015. The objective of the public meeting was to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft United States (U.S.) positions that will be discussed at the 22...

Francisco Morazan Park in San Jose. Source: Wikimedia Commons A male tourist from the United States who had checked into a hotel in the capital city of Costa Rica lost his life in the late hours of Friday. Such was the information contained in a preliminary report filed by metro reporter Daniel Chinchilla Salazar of daily tabloid Diario Extra; however, few details have been provided about the ...