Preliminary data from the 2016 census show a decreasing birth rate and increasing mortality, said the Costa Rican Census and Statistics Institute (INEC) today. In 2016 there were 1,815 fewer births in ...

Panama City, May 9 (EFE).– Panama’s Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health, or ICGES, found in a recent study that genetically modified mosquitoes can be used to combat dengue with a high degree of ...

The Costa Rican-based business research media, CentralAmericaData.com released today 2015 data on Costa Rica’s vehicle fleet. Automobiles comprise the largest percentage of Costa Rica’s vehicular ...

A total of 5.38 km (3.35 miles) of bicycle track should be ready by February 2017 in San Pedro, Montes de Oca confirmed the mayor of this town Marcel Soler who also confirmed the Municipality is ...

Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit marine conservation organization, filed a full petition [on November 17] with the Inter-American ...

Costa Rica’s rice growers are urging President Luis Guillermo Solis against joining the Pacific Alliance, a Latin American trade bloc which currently consists of its four founding member states: Chile ...

La Paz, Jun 18 (EFE).– Eight of the 22 national parks in Bolivia will be opened for oil exploration, officials said. “We’re talking about eight parks, but it’s not a new thing because there’s been ...

The International Surfing Association and the Portuguese Surfing Federation are the organizers of the Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Championship that will take place in Azores Islands, Portugal from ...

Internationally renowned historian and reverend Yamil Jimenez Tabash gave a lecture to a standing-room-only audience in Perez Zeledon last Friday on an un-sanitized version of the history of Costa ...

Police officials in Costa Rica on Tuesday said they have identified the suspect in a brutal murder of an entire family in the northwestern province of Guanacaste as Adrian Salmerón Silva, saying they ...

Luis is a young Tico who lives in the municipality of Tibas, just north of San Jose. He works as an office clerk and has consumed more than 200 hits (doses) of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD 25) ...

Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas continues with his achievements, yesterday he played his game 100 with the Real Madrid and celebrated along with his team by winning the Spain Supercup; today Navas ...