Government unveils creative solution to rectify shark finning dilemma and improve recycling PUNTARENAS – Costa Rica has launched an initiative to replace severed shark fins with scuba flippers, a move that will diminish the environmental calamity of finning and make the ocean beasts more aerodynamic, Environmental Minister Rene Castro said yesterday. Shark finning, a…
This week’s M.O.T.W. is Esteban Montero. Born in 1968, the Bagaces native practically grew up on a horse. Montero, who describes himself as the “John Wayne of Guanacaste,” claims to have participated in every tope on the Nicoya Peninsula since 1971. When not drunkenly clinging to the reins, Esteban earns a living as a rodeo clown.…
Gringo instructor adamant class loves him HEREDIA – A business English language class at Intel Inc. unanimously agreed in a recent questionnaire that teacher Bryan McNutt’s two strongest abilities are being a painfully oblivious gringo and poor wardrobe choices. The group of six, who requested their names be withheld, filled-out the survey about their teacher after complaints were…
Vatican to investigate claims ALAJUELA – Carmen de los Ángeles Castillo Fuentes, 73, has been making empanadas for over five decades, but she’s never made one like this. Yesterday afternoon, as Castillo was placing her freshly baked Holy Week treats on the counter to cool, something on one of the empanadas caught her eye. On the outer crust…
Yoga pants are the future, not technology, Chinchilla says HEREDIA – Days after Intel Corp. announced it would pull the majority of its operations from Costa Rica, the country inked a deal with Lululemon in an effort to become the world’s premier producer of unreasonably tight yoga pants, President Laura Chinchilla said. “Technology is a…
President congratulates Migration offices for exemplary efficiency SAN JOSE – Nine short years after applying for residency, Boston native Janice Bradford can finally leave and enter Costa Rica without having to show migration officials a wrinkled tramite paper from 2005. Bradford, who speaks flawless Spanish and has mothered four children in Costa Rica with her Tico husband,…
Suegra remains skeptical that he didn’t receive assistance LIBERIA – Costa Rica man Ramón Sosa Quesada stunned his friends and family last Saturday when he single-handedly cooked his own dinner after finding himself home alone with no prepared meal. Sosa, whose wife goes to choir practice on Saturday evenings, said he felt completely lost when he could only find…
Solís shows off cool new look to appear more “Mall San Pedro” SAN JOSE – Luis Guillermo Solís will enter office in May sporting a sleek new wig to disguise his bald head and avoid being characterized at the United Nations as “el pelon,” the newly elected President announced Monday. Solís, who held his post-election…
“I will do anything I can to discourage your votes,” Araya said. “Anything.” SAN JOSE – Presidential candidate Johnny Araya has launched a final self-sabotage campaign to lose as many votes as possible in Sunday’s run-off election, the former mayor of San Jose said yesterday. Araya, who dropped out of the elections last month, held…
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