Flickr Commons Philadelphia, Dec 27 (EFE).- Quarterback Kirk Cousins threw four touchdown passes to help the Washington Redskins beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-24 on the road and take the NFC East title. Head coach Jay Gruden engineered a tremendous turnaround this season for the Redskins (8-7), who went from a 4-12 record and last place in the NFC East in 2014 to division champions. Co...

Source: iCafe By Joel Clement, Director, Office of Policy Analysis at the United States Department of the Interior How do we work with diverse ecosystems and landscapes to address climate change? How can we help these natural systems build resilience and pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? Globally, the degradation of forests, agricultural areas, wetlands and other important la...

Source: Telefonica Madrid, December 2015. Telefónica will launch video services in seven new Latin American markets in 2016, which will mainly be VoD (video on demand) services and linear television channels. These markets are Ecuador, Uruguay, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The launch will be staggered throughout next year, and the service mode available in each cou...

Leaning Traveler A new mobile app allows tourists to get around Costa Rica and discover cool things to do through GPS guidance and reviews. LeaningTraveler is an app developed for the Apple iOS platform; it is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store for iPhones and iPads. According to the developers, no other Costa Rica travel guide or GPS mapping application contains more ma...

Source: Flickr CC On the morning of Saturday, December 26th,  the traditional Gran Tope Nacional de Costa Rica (equestrian parade) will kick off next to the train tracks of Plaza Viquez, where it will continue on to Avenida Segunda (Second Avenue) until 14th street before flowing through Paseo Colon until La Sabana Metropolitan Park. The participation of thousands of horses and riders in th...

Wikimedia Commons Things did not go his way for rock star Lenny Kravitz, a resident of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, who was recently ordered to shut down a free dental practice he established on Eleuthera Island for the benefit of the local population. According to a news report published by Caribbean newspaper The Eleutheran, Mr. Kravitz organized the free dental clinic through his Let...

Source: Presidential Office of Costa Rica A joint effort between government officials and a non-profit organization resulted in the rush construction of homes for 38 families who had been judicially evicted from a farm in southern Costa Rica. The families benefited by this action were evicted after a lengthy, Kafkaesque round of agrarian court hearings, whereby the plaintiffs were two banan...

Wikimedia Commons One of the joys of purchasing property in Costa Rica is the potential for landowners to plant and care for trees that will bear fruit. According to the real estate professionals at RE/MAX Ocean Surf in Tamarindo Beach, fruit trees are attractive features within listings of farms and single-family homes built on generous plots of land. Listings in the province of Guanacaste...

Ultimate Excursions Travel has selected the top three destinations for family travel  in the New Year, and Costa Rica is among the choices for 2016. 1 - The Atlantis Paradise Resort in the Bahamas calls out to parents and children with attractions and adventures designed to impress. Like its name suggests, the Atlantis Paradise Resort is one of the largest water-themed attractions in the world ...

Wikimedia Commons New York, Dec 23 (EFE; odds by IDSca.com).- The Carolina Panthers have an NFL-best 14-0 record with two games remaining in the regular season, and they also lead the league with 10 players selected to the Pro Bowl. Quarterback Cam Newton, considered a leading candidate to win the NFL Most Valuable Player Award, earned Pro Bowl honors for the third time in his career, while...

Pixabay Commons An internal page within the website of the Ministry of the Environment in Costa Rica (Spanish acronym: MINAE) was hacked by an Egyptian group claiming allegiance to the Cyber Caliphate, an extremist branch of ISIS. The Web page in question is a document that normally holds a compilation of events related to the history of Isla del Coco, a World Heritage Site that is part of ...

A RE/MAX listing in Costa Rica What makes Costa Rica such an attractive real market for North American and European buyers? One of the main reasons behind this attraction is that real estate ownership in our country is mostly egalitarian and dynamic. For the most part, prospective foreign house hunters enjoy the same benefits as citizens of Costa Rica. According to the staff of RE/MAX Ocean...

Source: Saprissa Oficial Twitter After a tumultuous championship drought and a humiliating exit from the CONCACAF Champions League, Costa Rica's most celebrated football club returned to glory by winning the 2015 First Division Winter Tournament. Against all odds, Deportivo Saprissa beat rival club Liga Deportiva Alajuelense (LDA) at the Alejandro Morera Soto Stadium near downtown Alajuela ...

In 2014,  the School of Statistics at the University of Costa Rica published a report (PDF) that focused on topics beyond the traditional demographics. The 2014 Current Events Survey investigated sentiment and facts related to Pope Francis, Ebola, football, mosquito-borne diseases, extraterrestrial life, and even Christmas traditions. With regard to Christmas and the end-of-year holidays, the S...

Beach house in Costa Rica North American house hunters who come to Costa Rica in search of real estate bargains often find out that the financing process is not like what they are used to, at least not in terms of mortgage lending. Although there is a mortgage lending industry in Costa Rica, it is not as sophisticated or accessible as in the United States or Canada. To this end, cash is often ...

BICSA in Panama. Wikimedia Commons PANAMA CITY, Dec. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior, S.A. ("Bladex" or the "Bank") (NYSE: BLX) announced today the closing of a US$50 million, 3-Year Senior Unsecured Term Loan Facility for Banco Internacional de Costa Rica S.A. ("BICSA"). BICSA is a bank established in Panama and owned by Banco de Costa Rica and Banco Nac...

Wikimedia Commons The evidence given by an expert in rivers from The University of Nottingham has been pivotal in a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on a centuries-old border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Professor Colin R. Thorne from the University’s School of Geography was a key witness in a trial which settled a border dispute between the two Central Americ...

Fiserv Costa Rica BROOKFIELD, Wis. & BARREAL DE HEREDIA, Costa Rica--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that a web-based application created during the Fiserv 2nd Annual Programathon will further the education of 50,190 schoolchildren in Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua. Bringing together ...

A RE/MAX listing in Costa Rica Of all regional housing markets in Costa Rica, Tamarindo Beach is one of the most recent and affluent. Up to the late 20th century, Tamarindo Beach was a sleepy beach town characterized by lackadaisical real estate development. That changed in the early 21st century as tourists and expats discovered the beaches of Guanacaste, which are now known as being part of ...

Source: Flickr Commons A criminal division judge in the municipality of Carazo, located about 70 kilometers southwest of Managua, has named four suspects in the murder of Canadian expat Rajan Deedar Gill, who was found beaten to death in his country home near La Boquita in Nicaragua. According to a November 30th wire report by Agencia EFE, police officers found the victim next to Marbely de...

A recent report by Research and Markets indicates that the global cosmetic dentistry market is set to grow at a rate of nearly 7 percent per year to become a $22.4 billion industry by the end of the decade. As one of the top dental tourism destinations in the Americas, Costa Rica is a significant contributor to this market. Cosmetic dentistry is marketed as a discipline that can produce beautiful...

Pixabay Commons OpenFinance, a BME subsidiary specializing in the development and implementation of technology solutions for financial advice and portfolio management, has signed an agreement with Aldesa Corporación de Inversiones for implementing its Openworkplace® platform. It will also carry out management activities with its clients and tracking product portfolios within the financial firm...

A nine-year-old schoolgirl is to front a global educational campaign to save one of the world’s rarest frogs. Lucy Marland joined forces with The University of Manchester after coming face to face with a Lemur Leaf Frog, kept at Manchester Museum and one of only a few hundred left anywhere in the world. The campaign, called Learning with Lucy, aims to educate primary age school children in t...

Source: Miss America PR San Juan, Dec 20 (EFE; additional reporting by The Costa Rica Star).- Destiny Velez, Miss Puerto Rico 2015, was suspended indefinitely by the island's Miss America organization after suggesting that all Muslims are terrorists and criticizing U.S. moviemaker Michael Moore for publishing a photo defending the U.S. Muslim community. Last Wednesday evening, Moore publish...

Zollner in Cartago Competing with successful companies requires a continuous supply of initiatives, ideas and concepts. One of the companies achieving success in the midst of intense global competition is Zollner AG, an electronic manufacturing services (EMS) market leader from Zandt, located in the Eastern Bavarian Forest of Germany. Founder Manfred Zollner can proudly look back on 50 year...

Tom Brady on the beach in Costa Rica with his family. Source: Facebook Pressnews.biz (Press Release) Dec 18, 2015 -- San Jose, Costa Rica. Over the past months, Patriots’ QB Tom Brady has been questioned about his feelings for Republican candidate Donald Trump and asked a few times which way he would vote in the coming election. Although, Brady has skillfully said nothing to all the questions ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Chica Surf Adventures encourages corporations to try something different for retreats and team-building exercises – a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the tropical jungles of Costa Rica for sun, surf and adventure. With all-inclusive packages and lots of versatility in developing custom programs, Chica Surf Adventures offers a fun, unique way to refresh and rec...

Wikimedia Commons Bruxism is an involuntary and unconscious condition that prompts individuals to grind their teeth, usually while they are sleeping. There are four main symptoms ofbruxism: morning headaches, earaches and worn-down teeth. The American Dental Association (ADA) defines bruxism as a habit of forcefully clenching your teeth. The morning soreness and aches are caused by the ...

The release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been met with much praise when it premiered in the US this week and will hit theaters on 18th December. The action takes place 30 years after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and there are no Ewoks! The staff of Matinee, a renowned multilingual voice-over agency in the United Kingdom, decided to look at the different languages which is spoken in Star...

With border controls getting tighter in many parts of the world, should perpetual tourists in Costa Rica worry about their legal status? According to Marcela Gurdian, founder of Immigration Experts Costa Rica, some incidents in 2015 should be carefully reviewed and considered by foreigners who have not formalized their legal status in our country. In 2015, the exacerbation of the European re...

Source: Crowley.com (SAN JOSE, Costa Rica; Dec. 17, 2015) - Crowley Maritime Corp.'s liner and logistics group in Central America recently received National Road Safety Recognition from the Costa Rica Ministry of Public Works for their focus on regional, national and local road safety. During an awards ceremony, which took place Dec. 10, in San José, Costa Rica, Crowley was recognized for thei...

Wikimedia Commons If your teeth are cracked, decayed, fractured, or otherwise in bad shape, you may have considered extraction at one point. If you have made this decision or at least thought about it, you are certainly not alone; in the United Kingdom, 74 percent of adult patients have elected extraction at least once in their lives. Deciding against tooth extractions is the main driver of...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC, December 16, 2015 --(PR.com)-- The White House, U.S. Department of State, Partners of the Americas, and NAFSA: Association of International Educators announced eight new 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund grants sponsored by Campus Puerto Rico to support university partnerships and new study abroad programs at an event with Vice President Joe Biden...

Yogi Aaron NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 16, 2015 - Yogi Aaron’s narrative is one of empowerment, imbued with a sense of adventure. Having built his name as the creator of Hot Nude Yoga, Aaron chronicles the life of a self-described “timid mother’s boy” into an assured, self-made yogi exemplifying metamorphosis. In “Autobiography of a Naked Yogi” (published by Balboa Press), Aaron shares how his p...

Source: Melissa Mora Facebook A digital photo featuring the labia majora of a popular lingerie model from Costa Rica is being furiously shared on social networks, and the model in question has taken exception to the uproar that a glimpse of her genitalia has caused. Melissa Mora is known as a bikini model, pop singer and reality TV show contestant who always seems to find herself in the med...

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA--(Marketwired - Dec 15, 2015) - The Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE, in Spanish) and the Ministry of Foreign Trade (COMEX) reported that foreign investment businesses in the Services, Life Sciences, Advanced Manufacturing, Light Manufacturing and Food Industry sectors generated a total of 12,000 new jobs in 2015. According to Jorge Sequeira, Managing Director...

ZURICH: Eduardo Li, former head of the Costa Rica football federation, has decided to stop fighting a United States extradition application and accept a flight from Switzerland to face FIFAGate charges writes KEIR RADNEDGE, a respected author of several works on football and professional sports. Li had been just about to be admitted formally to the executive committee of world governing body FI...

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - December 14, 2015) - Italian roasting coffee company illy and Los Angeles-based GreenLight Media & Marketing took home the Cristal award for best Non-Fiction Film in the Branded Entertainment & Content category for the feature-length documentary A Small Section of the World at the 2015 Cristal Festival, the annual five-day international media and creativity ...

Rhinebeck, NY (PRWEB) December 14, 2015 - Omega, a premier destination for wellness and lifelong learning in New York’s Hudson Valley, returns to its winter home in Costa Rica for the 6th year. Omega Costa Rica, offering more than 20 programs at Blue Spirit between January 9 and February 13, 2016, is nearly sold out. Opportunities to sample from a variety of programs with top teachers are still av...

Oveedia desktop. Source: Pure LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - Dec 9, 2015) - Pure Hospitality Solutions, Inc. (OTC PINK: PNOW), parent Company of the Central American-Caribbean online travel Agency (OTA), Oveedia (www.Oveedia.com), announced today, that the Company has made significant strides over the past several weeks in preparation for a successful New Year. "Although we have been quiet w...