Tag: Costa Rica

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Argentina, Japan and EU supporting US drive for greater transparency at WTO

  

  Argentina, Costa Rica, Japan and the European Union are supporting a U.S. drive to enforce greater transparency and discipline at the World Trade Organization, an updated proposal published by the WTO showed on Friday.

• Monday, October 22nd 2018 - 18:50 UTC

  Costa Rican official estimates 30,000 Nicaraguans have sought refuge in six months

  

  Costa Rica's Migration Director Raquel Vargas Jaubert said in a TV interview on Sunday that the number of Nicaraguans who have fled to Costa Rica in the past six months is of no less than 30.000 people.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2018 - 08:16 UTC

  “Beware of little David”, Lula da Silva tells Brazil' team ahead of the match with Costa Rica

  

  Ex president Lula da Silva is serving a 12-year sentence for corruption in Curitiba, but as all Brazilians loves football, the national sport, and has been contracted as a commentator for the World's Cup in Russia.

• Friday, June 15th 2018 - 16:21 UTC

  Nicaragua crisis: Many seek to flee the country

  

  As the crisis worsens in Nicaragua, pressure on the part of society that demands the resignation of President Daniel Ortega remains. This generates that, in many cities like Masaya, the streets are blocked with more than 200 barricades while their neighbors organize to guarantee security and collect food for the protesters who are entrenched, resisting the paramilitary siege against the city. However, there has been an overflow of passport applications in recent weeks.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2018 - 08:01 UTC

  Costa Rica presidential runoff between evangelical preacher and ex minister

  

  Costa Rica’s presidential election is headed to a runoff after no candidates secured enough votes to win outright. The top vote-getter, evangelical preacher Fabricio Alvarado, is expected to face his closest opponent, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, a former labor minister, April 1. Alvarado won nearly 25% of votes on Sunday to Alvarado Quesada’s 22%.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2018 - 10:22 UTC

  Costa Rica wins coastal border dispute with Nicaragua at UN Court of Justice

  

  Costa Rica claimed victory over Nicaragua on Friday, after the United Nations’ highest court awarded Costa Rica disputed territory along the coastal border shared by the two Central American countries. Nicaragua was ordered by the International Court of Justice in The Hague to remove a military base from a contested coastal area near the San Juan river, which the judges said violated Costa Rican sovereignty.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2018 - 10:12 UTC

  Gay marriage at the center of Costa Rica's Sunday presidential election

  

  A debate over gay marriage has upturned Costa Rica's presidential race, giving ammunition to conservative frontrunners ahead of Sunday's vote and challenging the Central American country's image as a progressive bastion. Evangelical Christian singer and congressman Fabricio Alvarado, who leads recent polls, has pitted himself against a January ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that urges Costa Rica to legalize same-sex marriage.

• Wednesday, January 3rd 2018 - 10:05 UTC

  “2017 was the safest year for aviation ever”

  

  Airlines recorded zero accident deaths in commercial passenger jets last year, according to a Dutch consulting firm and an aviation safety group that tracks crashes, making 2017 the safest year on record for commercial air travel. Dutch aviation consulting firm To70 and the Aviation Safety Network both reported there were no commercial passenger jet fatalities in 2017.

• Friday, November 17th 2017 - 08:20 UTC

  Falklands' ice hockey team will play a Canadian side that arrives with a letter of support from PM Trudeau

  

  On November 18 & 19, Costa Rica’s first ever international ice hockey tournament will take place in the hills of Heredia, where it is much cooler than in the Central Valley, at the Castillo Country Club, home of the Castillo Knights.

• Saturday, November 11th 2017 - 12:30 UTC

  Falklands ice hockey team in international tournament in Costa Rica

  

  Costa Rica will be hosting the first Castillo International Ice Hockey Tournament with the participation of a home team, and three international sides, including one form the Falkland Islands. The competition is scheduled to take place at the Castillo Country Club in San Rafael de Heredia, on 18/19 November.