Irish singer Bono of the band U2, and his wife Alison Hewson, have apparently been in Costa Rica since February 11th, as confirmed by the Directorate General of Immigration.
Misinformation and miscalculations in real estate appraisals in Costa Rica has driven the Chamber of Costa Rican Official Real Estate Agents (CCCBR) to create the first Property Price Index (PPI) in the country.
Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Worldwide and noted environmentalist, will be in Costa Rica on Wednesday as Costa Rica pledges to keep up its fight against shark finning.
Tourism professionals and specialists in plastic surgery, orthopedics, dentistry, nursing and other fields will be among the 1,000 jobs offered at the health tourism fair Expomed 2012.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez shrugged off cancer and a unified opposition on Sunday to triumph yet again at the ballot box and win another six-year mandate to pursue his oil-funded socialist revolution.
Fourteen legislators stalled the progress of the Wildlife Act by sending the bill to the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court to review the act's constitutionality.
Mitt Romney regained momentum in the first U.S. presidential debate of the 2012 campaign by aggressively standing up to President Barack Obama, analysts said, but it remains to be seen how much he can budge the needle in the race for the White House.
A pair of U.S. franchises opened their first restaurants in Costa Rica in the past month. Several other restaurants have announced plans to increase their number of locations.
Article 106 indicates that pedestrians who walk between vehicles on the road will be fined. The reform also forbids the use of skateboards in public transit
Tuesday was a good day for President Laura Chinchilla and her National Liberation Party government. After a brief speech by Finance Minister Edgar Ayales, Chinchilla signed three tax and finance bills into law.
Immigration Administration officials on Monday presented a new electronic device called “Migration Maps,” which will record the location of main foreign populations in Costa Rica.
Despite a pending injunction against Las Catalinas, a massive luxury housing project near Flamingo Beach and Potrero, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court, or Sala IV, has given the green light for developers to build a private road on the property.
After almost a month, U.S. Navy frigate USS Carr was granted permission to deliver to Costa Rican authorities a part of a shipment of two tons of marijuana seized in Caribbean waters last August. The cargo will serve as evidence in the trials of the three detainees.
For months, former Costa Rican President José María Figueres (1994-1998) dodged reporters’ questions about whether his recent return to Costa Rica after years of living in Europe signified an interest in running for president in 2014. Figueres frequently responded that it was too early for campaigning.