Young Facebook users in Costa Rica enjoy certain protections with regard to keeping their social media activity hidden from parents. That much is granted by Article 25 of the Childhood and Adolescence Code. Such is not the case in Colombia, where the Supreme Court recently issued an opinion that gives parents the right to monitor the Facebook accounts of their children. In Costa Rica, a legisla...

Source: Montreal Impact Football Club (MLS) Montreal Impact Football Club Press Release -- MONTREAL – The Montreal Impact announced on Monday that the club has completed the transfer of attacking midfielder/forward and Costa Rican international Johan Venegas, from club L.D. Alajuelense. Targeted allocation money was used to acquire the player. The deal will become official upon receipt of his ...

United States Department of Justice Press Release -- An Ohio man was convicted yesterday after a two-day jury trial in the Western District of North Carolina for his role in a Costa Rican telemarketing scheme. 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 North Carolina made ...

Source: Pixabay Commons Last week, agents from the Office of Judicial Investigations (Spanish initial: OIJ) arrested a 40-year old expatriate man and charged him with deriving proceeds off prostitution, a criminal offense often referred to as “pimping.” The arrest was carried out during an afternoon raid on a residence in the Plaza Viquez district, located just south of the capital city of Cos...

Source; Flickr Commons Washington, Aug 4 (EFE).- The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into Deutsche Bank AG, suspected of operations that involved money-laundering trades worth billions of dollars for Russian clients, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. By means of the so-called "mirror trades," clients have been able to move enormous sums from Moscow to London and from rubl...

Source: Naturewalk PRLog - Aug. 4, 2015 - JACO, Costa Rica -- Naturewalk Costa Rica has launched a new contemporary one bedroom Casita starter home and a new 3 bedroom Premier home design. To celebrate the launch of these homes Naturewalk is including two homes and two multipurpose agricultural and development lots in the Naturewalk Summer Sale 2015. The lots are available at a discount of ...

United States Government / State Department Press Release / August 4, 2015 – Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) William R. Brownfield will meet tomorrow, August 5, at the State Department with Attorneys General from Central America to discuss justice and law enforcement issues, as well as ongoing reform efforts, in the region. The Attorneys G...

Flickr Commons The most iconic brand of sporting equipment in Major League Baseball (MLB) will trim down its operations in Costa Rica. Rawlings, the official provider of baseballs to the MLB since the late 1970s, has announced that it will shut down its uniform manufacturing operations in Costa Rica and will move them to El Salvador, where cheaper labor and lower overhead expenses await. Ac...

San Francisco, Aug 4 (EFE).- Apple's digital assistant, Siri, will soon be able to transcribe voicemail messages from iPhones, according to the publication Business Insider, which reported that the new service could make its debut next year. "Apple employees are testing a voicemail service that uses Siri to answer your calls and transcribe voicemail messages," said Business Insider. "Apple's...

Wikimedia Commons San Jose, Costa Rica, FIVB Media Release– Thirty-two physical education teachers from Costa Rica participated in the FIVB VCP Young Players course under the guidance of FIVB instructor Miguel Holz Bodlaender of Chile, from July 27 to 31. The project was initiated by the national federation of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican Mnistry of Education (MEP)%2...

KANNAPOLIS, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--There are college students in Costa Rica balancing long hours in the laboratory with high-level science classes who are wondering where their education will take them. For at least two students, the answer is North Carolina. Dole Food Company is sponsoring banana and pineapple PhD programs in partnership with NC State University (NCSU), the NC Research Campus ...

Wikimedia Commons Business magnate Donald Trump is pretty busy these days. Not only is he trying to claim the Republican party ticket for the upcoming presidential elections in the United States; he is also involved in litigation against some of his former business partners who chose to terminate their relationships with Mr. Trump after his offensive and xenophobic comments against Mexican peo...

2015 National Geographic Photo Contest Winner WASHINGTON (Aug. 3, 2015)—Selected from more than 17,000 entries, an underwater photograph of divers swimming near a humpback whale taken by Anuar Patjane Floriuk of Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, has won the 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest grand prize. Floriuk wins an eight-day National Geographic Photo Expedition to Costa Rica and the ...

Wikimedia Commons MIAMI, Aug. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Norwegian Cruise Line today announced exciting and exotic new itineraries for the brand's Fall/Winter 2016/2017 deployment, bringing the world to guests who want to explore new sights while experiencing the freedom and flexibility that only Norwegian Cruise Line can offer. Norwegian offers guests new destinations and new ports to choose fro...

ISIS fighters in Iraq. Source: Wikimedia Commons Mosul, Iraq, Aug 2 (EFE).- The Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday executed 15 Iraqi police officers and arrested four journalism students accused of collaborating with the foreign press in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In remarks to EFE, Mohammed al-Bayati, the head of security in the Iraqi province of Nineveh, of which Mosul is the c...

Source: CS Herediano Facebook TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - August 03, 2015) - Scotiabank is pleased to announce the first ever Scotiabank CONCACAF U-13 Champions League invitational tournament taking place in Mexico City, August 4-8. Eight teams from across CONCACAF regions will compete in the tournament taking place at the Cruz Azul Acoxpa -- a Cruz Azul futbol training facility. Teams play...

University of Colorado Boulder. Source: Wikimedia Commons SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time Operational Intelligence, today announced that Splunk software is being taught or used for research in more than 100 universities around the world. Using Splunk solutions in the classroom equips students and faculty with an...

Father and son at the beach in Jaco. "There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nearly two months ago, deep heartbreak struck Britt Nelson at his home in Jaco Beach: The hardest part about Coady’s death, for me, was finding him dead in his bed the morning of June 8. He was just lying on his side with his head on his pillow. The TV was still on. He ...

For many decades, hundreds of military veterans from the United States have made Costa Rica their second home, and many of them have experienced the horrors of war. In Costa Rica, they hope to start a new life and alleviate their traumatic combat experience; this is a primary goal that they hope to accomplish even if they do not intend to live out the rest of their lives in our country. Costa ...

Source: Open Garden SAN FRANCISCO, July 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Garden, the creator of FireChat, announces today the introduction of its new off-the-grid private messaging technology (OM). You can now send private messages to people anywhere, even if you aren't connected to the Internet or to a cellular network. All communication apps today require Internet access and protocols. When ...

Santa Cruz, Guanacaste. Source: Wikimedia Commons Economic hardship, relationship conflicts and family turmoil led three men from the Santa Cruz, province of Guanacaste, to take their own lives within 24 hours. According to a news report filed by Marco Ureña of Guanacaste online news website Primero en Noticias, all three men chose hanging as their means of suicide.   The first repo...

A replica of La Negrita. Source: Flickr Comons At the Romeria, a very important Roman Catholic pilgrimage in Costa Rica that takes place every year, Red Cross medical personnel have treated 397 faithful pilgrims over the last couple of days. According to a news report filed by Jason Torres for online news daily Costa Rica Hoy, 267 cases are related to heat exhaustion, dehydration, respirato...

Singer/songwriter Debi Nova, known for popular hit singles Drummer Boy and One Rhythm, was headed to the altar during the first weekend of August. According to a news report filed by Ariel Chaves Gonzales of daily tabloid Diario Extra, the Costa Rican pop star will tie the knot with Tico architect John Osborne.   Debi Nova was born Deborah Nowalski Kader in San Jose; she currently resid...

Glendale, CA (PRWEB) July 31, 2015 -- Goway Travel is offering travelers a complimentary night at a select range of boutique resorts and hotels in Costa Rica. Costa Rica has long been one of the best value destinations in the Americas, popular with young, adventure-seeking travelers on a budget. Yet the country has seen a recent surge in interest from the luxury and baby-boomer market, as well....

Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica. Source: DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe Media Release -- In June 2015, the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) offered a field-based graduate course in Costa Rica titled “Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach.” To supplement the field-based instruction and incorporate a GIS (geographic information systems) and remote sensing component, Dr. Eben Broadbent, assistant pr...

NORWALK, CT -- For 2016 Tauck is expanding the breadth of its “Earth Journeys” partnership with the award-winning nature documentary filmmakers at BBC Earth to include its three trips exploring Costa Rica. Each of the three itineraries will be enhanced with exclusive content provided through the BBC Earth partnership, and the trio of Costa Rica trips join over a dozen other Earth Journeys itinerar...

Juliana Lopez Sarrazola. Source: Miss World Colombia 2015 Juliana Lopez Sarrazola, a 22-year old Colombian bikini model, could face the death penalty in China for the alleged crime of smuggling cocaine into the People's Republic of China. According to the online news daily El Mundo from Spain, Miss Lopez, who was also the 2015 Miss World Colombia candidate from Antioquia, a major coffee-pr...

Source. Go Fund Me A man from British Columbia was shot and killed during a home invasion gone wrong in Boquete, a community near the border with Costa Rica. According to Jon Azpiri, a journalist for Canadian online publication Global News, Mr. Potrebenko was 53 years old when he lost his life as he protected his wife and mother-in-law when three masked men broke into his home a week ago. A...

WATERBURY, VT (PRWEB) July 29, 2015 – Country Walkers, the leading provider of premium active and experiential travel, features immersive guided walking vacations perfect for travelers looking to discover scenic pathways and new cultures this autumn. Embark on a tour close to home in one of the United States National Parks. For a more exotic adventure, journey towards the equator to hike though Co...

ASPEN, Colo., July 29, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Anne Welsh McNulty and the Aspen Institute today announced the eighth annual John P. McNulty Prize laureates, a group of extraordinary leaders who bring the spirit of innovation that characterized their success in the private sector to address some of the most intractable problems facing our world today. The 2015 Laureates are making a sign...

Washington, Jul 27 (EFE).- The United States removed Cuba from the list of countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards for combating human trafficking and "do not make significant efforts to do so." The U.S. State Department published Monday its annual report on human trafficking around the world in 2014, in which it identified the countries not taking the necessa...

Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica (PRWEB) July 29, 2015 – Featured in BBC's "Nature’s Miracle Orphans", Kids Saving the Rainforest and The Sloth Institute Costa Rica announce plans to re-introduce the famous two-toed sloth duo, orphaned and hand raised by Sam Trull (known as the Mother of Sloths) and co-founder of The Sloth Institute (TSI), back into the rainforest in the maritime zone adjoining Tulemar ...

An Uber driver in Bogota. Wikimedia Commons San Jose (The Costa Rica Star) and Mexico City (EFE), July 29.- Mexico City taxi drivers staged a protest on Wednesday against the recent approval of private transportation services offered via smartphone apps, while police are investigating attacks on Uber drivers in the past few hours. In Costa Rica, the National Forum of taxicab drivers assembl...

"48 Hours Mystery logo" by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia 48 HOURS: "Paradise Lost" was Saturday's #1 broadcast at 10:00 PM with the key adult news demographic and viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for July 25. 48 HOURS was also the #1 program for the night in viewers. 48 HOURS (R) (10:00-11:00 PM) delivered 4.16 million viewers and a 1.0/04 with adult...

Windstar Cruises Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 28, 2015 -- For the first time, Windstar Cruises offers solo travelers the chance to experience the trip of a lifetime with waived or reduced rates on select voyages booked by September 18, 2015. Windstar extends this more affordable style of single cruising on more than 130 voyages including itineraries in Panama, Costa Rica, Tahiti, the Caribbean, an...

Story by Lt.j.g. Victoria Einbinder, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command & U.S. Fourth Fleet MAYPORT, Fla. - More than 75 military personnel, including 54 members of partner-nation navies, assembled July 27 on Naval Station Mayport for PANAMAX 2015, an exercise aimed at developing strong working relationships between multinational forces to ensure the defense of the Panama Canal. The exer...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Three male suspects wearing black fatigues and armed with shotguns stormed into the Promerica Bank branch located inside the Office Depot store in the upscale community of Escazu, located in the western suburbs of the capital city of Costa Rica. According to a new report filed by metro reporter Jason Torres of online news daily Costa Rica Hoy, the suspects took 250...

Wikimedia Commons A recent investigation by a tabloid publication in Costa Rica into a club drug used to facilitate anal intercourse has attracted the attention of public health officials. According to a news report filed by Daniel Chinchilla Salazar of daily tabloid Diario Extra, the Ministry of Public Health is preparing to shut down sex shops and other establishments in Costa Rica that sell...

WNET THIRTEEN Media Release – Growing up in the wild is hard enough on young animals when they have parents to rely on for protection and guidance, but what happens when they lose their parents? How do they survive? Over the past few years, great strides have been made in understanding how to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned wildlife. But as the documentary shows, success often comes down to the e...

Source: Instagram An attractive woman who is very fond of documenting her lavish lifestyle on the online social network Instagram was arrested earlier this month by agents from the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service. According to the British tabloid The Daily Mail, the 39-year old glamorous woman was trying to smuggle nearly six kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride in powd...