LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to enormous popular demand, IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and Universal Pictures today announced that Universal and Amblin Entertainment's global-record-breaking film, Jurassic World, will receive a special week-long engagement in domestic IMAX® 3D theatres beginning Aug. 28. Since its record-setting global IMAX release on June 12, Jurassic...

Crowne Plaza in San Jose. Source: ICT ICCA Press Release / San Jose, Costa Rica – Last month, the Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT) launched a new marketing campaign, “From Green Space to Meeting Space,” that aims at highlighting the reasons why Costa Rica is an ideal destination for meetings, congress and conventions. “Many have enjoyed Costa Rica’s biodiversity for leisure and are unaware of...

Source: OIJ Agents from the Office of Judicial Investigations (Spanish initials: OIJ) are currently looking for two female tourists in the Caribbean region of Costa Rica. According to a wire report published by online news daily CRHoy.com, the two women were last seen two nights ago at bar in the downtown district of Limon. One of the tourists has been identified with a last name of Martine...

Emilio Canales Author's Note: The following letter was penned by the father and sister of an expat businessman who has gone missing in Liberia, the seat of the Guanacaste province in Costa Rica. If you know of this man's whereabouts, please refer to the contact information at the end of this article. To whom it may concern: We are writing this heartbreaking letter to all the news media o...

On the North side of the Rincon de la Vieja volcano national park, right in the mountain rainforest, lies “Heaven on Earth”, also known as The Blue River Resort & Hot Springs and the Blue River Estate. Make no mistake about it, visitors here feel like they are stepping into a page of National Geographic Magazine. In real estate it is said that “Location, Location, Location” is the utmost quali...

Source: Ad Astra Ad Astra Press Release -- Ad Astra Rocket Company and NASA have successfully completed contract negotiations on the company’s Next Space Technology Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) award, announced on March 31, 2015, and now enter the execution phase of the project. The parties executed the contract, a three-year, fixed price agreement, on August 7, 2015 for a total value o...

(1888PressRelease) August 12, 2015 / Jaco, Puntarenas -- Jaco Fishing Charters is excited to announce the launch of our new sport fishing charter website. The new website primarily focuses on booking fishing charters off the coast of Jaco, Costa Rica but also provides useful information for the avid sport fisherman or first time angler wanting to learn more about sport fishing adventures off of th...

Source: Cluster Munition Coalition Cluster Munition Coalition Press Release – While the international community gets ready for the First Review Conference of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) to be held from 7 to 11 September in Dubrovnik Croatia, Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) members around the world celebrate the fifth anniversary of entry into force of the CCM. The Convention was...

Uvita, Costa Rica (PRWEB) August 12, 2015 -- Bodhi Surf School, a community-engaged surf and yoga camp in Uvita, Costa Rica, is proud to announce its 2015 My Ocean Guardian Journey Contest. The contest is an environmental essay and photo contest that aims to recognize individual actions that promote conservation and impact-reduction; moreover, it aims to give momentum to the grassroots movement to...

Costa Rica (PRWEB) August 11, 2015 -- Believe it or not, Spanish is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world. While learning a new language is exciting, it can also be downright challenging to master without the proper tools in place. That’s where SpanishBackpack.com comes into play. “Our goal at SpanishBackpack.com is to provide Spanish teachers and Spanish students with a fun tool ...

TravelMedia Ireland Press Release -- Fall in love with the amazing scenery, unique wildlife and friendly people of Costa Rica with Nuevo Mundo, the luxury South America holiday specialists. Costa Rica is a land of beauty and wonder, home to magnificent waterfalls, tropical rain forests and beautiful deserted beaches. Experience all this stunning country has to offer with Nuevo Mundo and enjoy a...

Source: Southwest Airlines ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwired - August 11, 2015) - Southwest Vacations is offering travelers a savings of up to $200 off on vacation packages to all destinations including those in Mexico, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Las Vegas, Orlando, and many others. Travelers who book a flight plus hotel vacation package to any destination offered by Southwest Vacations can save up...

Sabrina Luxury Collection LAS VEGAS, Aug. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- This week leading international luxury travel network, Virtuoso®, is conducting its 27th annual Virtuoso Travel Week conference – an event akin to Fashion Week where travel buyers seek out the latest trends in luxury experiences by meeting with thousands of travel purveyors, all preferred partners of the network. At the center ...

Source: Netflix Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 62 million members in over 50 countries -including Costa Rica- enjoying more than 100 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. For the most part, members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on nearly any Internet-connected scree...

2U.S. Department of Justice Press Release - A California woman was sentenced to 130 months in prison for her role in a half-million dollar Costa Rica-based “sweepstakes fraud” scheme that victimized hundreds of U.S. residents. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of Nor...

Source: UNED During a press conference that followed the delivery of a report to the United Nations, the Ombudsman of Costa Rica openly stated that our country is racist. Ombudsman Montserrat Solano explained that Costa Rica has improved in terms of racial equality, but she also added that there is a great deal of denial among many spheres of society, and that those who are the most affecte...

Sprint OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The new free Sprint Open WorldSM add-on offers customers free calls and texts to Canada and Mexico with calls starting at just a nickel to Latin America, the Dominican Republic and more than 180 other countries when added to a domestic service plan. For those who like to travel, it boasts free unlimited calls and texts when traveling in Canada, Mexi...

Source: New Mexico National Guard By Joseph Vigil, Chief of Public Affairs, New Mexico National Guard and 2nd Lt. Maria Del Rio, State Partnership Program Coordinator SANTA FE, N.M - A delegation of top officials from the Republic of Costa Rica visited the New Mexico National Guard here last week to share ideas as part of National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program (SPP). The partners...

Washington, Aug 10 (EFE).- The U.S. government said Monday it is "deeply concerned" about the detentions for several hours of some 90 dissidents in Cuba, including members of the Ladies in White, and said it will continue working so that the right to peaceful assembly is respected in Cuba. "We are deeply concerned by this round-up of peaceful activists by Cuban authorities," State Department sp...

Source: Nicole Carboni Facebook The 2015 Miss Costa Rica beauty pageant culminated over the weekend with the traditional crowning of the new Queen of all Ticos, who also received a sash, a bouquet, and an earful of snide comments about how the fix was in the entire time. Each year, there seems to be at least one Miss Costa Rica contestant who: A – Was not crowned Miss Costa Rica B – Cla...

Immigration officers stationed at the Peñas Blancas border crossing checkpoint between Costa Rica and Nicaragua detained a male traveler from the United States on Thursday. According to a news report broadcast by national television network Teletica Channel 7, the 30-year old man was coming from Nicaragua in what seemed to be a “visa run” to extend his status as a perpetual tourist. The U.S. ma...

Source: Bau Bax Chicago, IL (PRWEB) August 10, 2015 -- BauBax, the world’s best travel jacket with 15 distinctive features for everything a traveler needs, is now the 11th most funded Kickstarter campaign of all-time with over $4.5-million in contributions and counting (source: Kickstarter). BauBax looks to enter the Top 10 most funded Kickstarter campaigns within the next week by passing R...

Since late May 2015, major airlines in North America have been announcing great deals on low airfares to Costa Rica, and this trend seems to be developing into an all-out war. The ongoing airfare battle has been reported on by The Costa Rica Star over the last few months. One of the first airlines to launch an initial salvo in this battle for cheap plane tickets was Volaris, which operates in M...

Source: ABB ABB Media Release -- ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has been the inverter supplier of choice for a joint project with Enertiva Energia Alternativa. The project is unique for Central America: for the first time, a solar installation on the roof of a football stadium – and not just any football stadium, but the iconic Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, locally ca...

"Ara ambigua" by Alois Staudacher - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons A chapter in the history of how open pit mining failed to take hold in Costa Rica recently closed with the bankruptcy of Canadian firm Infinito Gold, which lodged a lawsuit against the sovereignty of our country for what they feel was a breach of contract in the infamous Crucitas case. Although t...

Source: Pixabay Commons National tourism boards around the world are paying very close attention to how their peers are using social media for marketing purposes. In Costa Rica, the Costa Rica Tourism Board (Spanish initials: ICT) was at one point an international leader in terms of using social media to attract foreign visitors as well as fomenting domestic tourism, and the most productive...

Wikiemedia Commons San Jose, August 9th, 2015 (Press Release by The Costa Rica Star) – When it comes to dental tourism in Costa Rica, prospective patients tend to be concerned with more than just the cost of their treatment. While it is true that dental procedures in Costa Rica are substantially lower than in North America and Europe, medical tourists are also interested by the quality of care...

Wikimedia Commons New York, Aug 9 (EFE).- Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett, is near a deal to acquire Precision Castparts for $30 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. The acquisition of Precision Castparts, a maker of parts for aircraft, electric utilities and the energy industry, could be announced this week, the Journal said, citing peopl...

Pixabay Public Domain For many children in Costa Rica and around the world, the first dental appointment is an event fraught with anxiety and fear, but it does not need to be that way. Dental care experiences can be turned into positive experiences for a child, but this requires the collaboration of parents and dentists. A child's fright of a dental visit is not unfounded; it is essentially...

Source: WIkimedia Commons PRLog - SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- Online sports betting company CRSportsBet.ag announced today the start of their “Champion of the NFL Handicapping Contest” where contestants will compete against each other to win $5,000 in Grand Prize money and weekly contest prizes. The contest rules are simple, every week of the regular NFL season each contestant just needs to gue...

Mexico City, Aug 8 (EFE).- The Sinaloa drug cartel became more powerful during kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman's most recent 17-month prison stay, Mexico City daily El Universal reported, citing information obtained from the Mexican Attorney General's Office. Guzman was captured on Feb. 22, 2014, in Mazatlan, a Pacific coast city in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, and imprisoned a...

Source: Christopher Gillette Facebook The charismatic biologist and wildlife photographer Christopher Gillette is currently on his sixth visit to Costa Rica. Mr. Gillette, better known as Crocodile Chris, has appeared on various television programs broadcast by the Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, History, and E! Entertainment. According to a report by Teletica Channel 7 News, Mr. Gillette a...

Logicoins Press Release -- San Jose, Costa Rica – July 31, 2015 – Ready to turn your Bitcoin into $200,000 in a matter of hours? Then you’ll want to be online at Americas Cardroom on Sunday, August 2nd. At 3pm ET, the US-facing online poker site is hosting its signature Million Dollar Sunday poker tournament, a $1 million guaranteed Texas Hold’em event with a first place prize of $200,000 guarante...

Miss Costa Rica 2015 Brenda Castro Thus far in 2015, judges at beauty pageants in Costa Rica have been swooned by contestants from the Caribbean region. Earlier this year, The Costa Rica Star reported on the crowning of Shakira McDonald, an Afro-Costa Rican beauty queen who is currently Mrs. Costa Rica. Last night, television network Teletica (Channel 7) aired the grand finale of Miss Costa Ri...

Source: Flickr Commons A woman who has not yet been identified is believed to be the seventh victim of a serial killer who seems to be operating in the southern suburbs of the capital city of Costa Rica. According to metro reporter Manuel Estrada of daily tabloid Diario Extra, the latest victim was found naked and bruised in an empty lot in the Sagrada Familia district, a working-class neig...

Source: Founder Institute Applications for the Costa Rica Founder Institute Summer Semester 2015 will be accepted until August 30th. The Founder Institute is the world's largest early-stage startup accelerator. Over 1,550 technology founders have already launched companies with the help of the Institute's company-building curriculum, expert feedback, and peer support. Anybody in Costa Rica ...

PR-Inside.com: 2015-08-07 -- Sacred Warrior’s Vanessa Chakour and powerhouse yogi, wellness educator and internationally known musician, Bibi McGill are running two back to back retreats in Costa Rica later this year, with a corresponding online course starting in October. The retreats will offer daily yoga and Sacred Warrior boxing, plant medicine, vegan meals, ceremony, jungle hikes with animals...

PANAMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starbucks Coffee Company (Nasdaq:SBUX), together with Premium Restaurants of America (PRA), its long-term strategic licensing partner in Central America, today opened its first store in Panama, making it Starbucks 15th market in Latin America and 67th worldwide. Located in Panama City’s Street Mall shopping center, the new store proudly features Starbucks Reserve™ Pan...

Wikimedia Commons Press Release Rocket -- CapitalCityTickets.com is slashing ticket prices on all inventory to see the International Friendly: Brazil vs. Costa Rica in action this year. Save on already slashed tickets prices with promo code CITY5 at checkout. CapitalCityTickets.com offers a wide selection of International Friendly: Brazil vs. Costa Rica soccer tickets for sale in all price ...

Fuerza Publica guards the rescued sea turtles. Source: MSP Despite dangerous surf conditions off the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, law enforcement and environmental protection officers apprehended three men suspected of hunting sea turtles with harpoons. According to press release CP-1407-2013 of the Ministry of Public Security (Spanish initials: MSP), the incident occurred on Wednesday aftern...