As I take a break from throwing all of my family’s worldly belongings into totes with duct tape labels, I start to reflect on the fact that I’m moving, yet again, to a new house in Costa Rica...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/26/expat-living-our-many-houses-in-costa-rica
President Rodrigo Chaves insinuated that Norway was influenced by “lobbying” in rejecting Costa Rica’s request for cooperation to calculate the value of alleged natural gas and oil reserves...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/26/chaves-suggests-lobbying-behind-norways-refusal-to-help
Since last Sunday, forest fire departments of the Arenal Huetar Norte Conservation Area have been dealing with a forest fire in the sector of Amparo in Caño Negro de los Chiles, within the Caño...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/25/firefighters-battle-blaze-in-cano-negro-national-wildlife-refuge
From Anitta to Beyoncé, through exhibitions and artistic residencies, funk has left the favelas of Rio to become a global phenomenon. However, prejudices still persist in Brazil. With influences...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/25/the-rise-of-brazilian-funk-anitta-beyonce-and-beyond
There is a certain intimacy felt when gazing into the eyes, the “windows of the soul” if you will, of a wild animal. To see a wild creature, in all its splendor, behaving naturally in its nat...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/25/the-difficulty-of-enforcing-laws-on-feeding-wild-animals
Tensions between President Rodrigo Chaves and the Legislative Assembly continue to be high. This time, PLP Congressman Eli Feinzaig assured that the President of Costa Rica paid for his house in ...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/25/how-did-the-costa-rica-president-pay-for-his-house
In a press conference the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA), the government entity responsible for water supply in the country, announced that it cannot guarantee 100% of the wa...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/24/costa-rica-faces-water-supply-challenges-amid-severe-drought
According to Travel+Leisure’s most recent publication, the Four Seasons Resort Peninsula Papagayo and Silvestre Nosara Hotel & Residences, located in Guanacaste, are among the best 100 hotels i...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/24/costa-rican-hotels-shine-in-travelleisures-best-100-list
A question many of us are asking right now is: How is the colon appreciating so rapidly vs the dollar? Since June, 2022, the USD has lost over 25% of its value against the Costa Rican Colon. No o...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/24/costa-rican-colon-surges-against-us-dollar-causes-and-implications
In a significant ruling on Tuesday, the Constitutional Court of Costa Rica struck down a controversial provision implemented by the Ministry of Health that mandated the concealment of warning nut...
https://ticotimes.net/2024/04/24/costa-rican-court-upholds-nutritional-warning-labels-on-food