Source: Univision Miami, Apr 17 (EFE).- "Sabado Gigante," the world's longest-running variety show on television with 53 years on the air and which is hosted by Chile's Don Francisco, will come to an end next September, the U.S. Spanish-language network Univision announced Friday. "After an extraordinary run, Univision's most popular variety program, 'Sabado Gigante' (Giant Saturday), will ...

CIMA Hospital in San Jose is often visited by medical tourists A citizen from the United States, who is suspected of having pulled off a spectacular real estate flimflam in Costa Rica, was arrested by the National Police of Nicaragua during Holy Week after a daring escape from a private hospital where he was in custody. According to a news report filed by Fatima Torres Gonzalez of El Nuevo ...

Source: OneSeed Newswise — Stella Liu wanted to solve a problem. She knew that her peers were passionate about local organic food and curious about growing their own fruits and vegetables. But many of them had no gardening experience, lived in apartments or were intimidated by massive home improvement stores, with their endless options for soil, fertilizer and tools. That’s where OneSeed co...

April 15, 2015, QUEPOS, Costa Rica. — The fleet of 67 international teams from 28 countries charged out of Marina Pez Vela under picture perfect conditions yesterday, April 14,th for day two of the 16th Annual Offshore World Championship tournament. The end result was a new single day tournament record with 940 sailfish, 1 black marlin and one striped marlin being released. The white hot bite c...

Source: RREE From a political standpoint, the administration of President Luis Guillermo Solis in Costa Rica is in shambles. The latest mishap involves a bizarre legislative proposal to reform the National Law on Radio and Television Broadcasting, which has been stuck in mid-20th century regulations. The proposal, which originated at the Executive Branch, took everyone in Costa Rica by surpris...

Source: oPhone CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Vapor Communications, a pioneer in scent delivery systems, is announcing the launch of oMedia, a platform for integrating scent messages, or oNotes, into a range of consumer products including oBooks, oSongs and oClothing. Based on the use of scent cartridges called oChips, oMedia products will become available for purchase...

Source: Chica Surf Adventures Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 13, 2015 - Chica Surf Adventures has taken advantage of one of the top marketing tools available to businesses today. Social media like Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook have become the new poster boards for users to comment, review and even post videos to show others all about a location and a vacation experience they love. Th...

In light of the recent eruptions and increased activity at the Turrialba volcano in the province of Cartago, the British Embassy in Costa Rica has updated its advice to travelers. The Costa Rica Star has been closely following the announcements by our country's geologists and emergency officials with regard to this active colossus, which has been compared to a “pressure cooker.” The following u...

LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxury cruise leader Crystal Cruises continues its commitment to enriching the lives of its guests and the destinations to which its award-winning ships sail with an expanded number of the popular "You Care, We Care" shore excursions in 2015. For the line's 25th Anniversary, 16 Crystal Adventures ashore – offered complimentarily to guests and crew, alike...

Source: Fuerza Publica In light of the terrible murder of an expat from the United States, the Director of  Costa Rica's national police force has promised the town of Playa Tamarindo in Guanacaste that police presence will soon be doubled in this coastal community. Such was the commitment recently reported by Patricia Duran of daily tabloid Diario Extra. Fuerza Pública Director Juan José A...

Wikimedia Commons Washington, Apr 15 (EFE).- Aaron Hernandez, a former tight end with the NFL New England Patriots, was found guilty on Wednesday of first degree murder in the 2013 death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player from Boston who was dating his killer's sister. Hernandez, 25, fired his pistol six times at the 27-year-old victim. The seven-woman five-man jury deliberated fo...

Source: OVSICORI PRLog - April 2, 2015 - SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – A few weeks ago, specifically during the 12 and 13 March 2015 weekend, the Turrialba Volcano in Costa Rica showed significant activity, putting on alert not only the people in surrounding towns but even people in cities as far as Heredia and San José due to high concentration of volcanic ashes flowing far and wide. What worries pe...

Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton. EFE file Washington, Apr 13 (EFE).- U.S. President Barack Obama is not ready to formally endorse his ex-secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in her bid for the presidency because it is possible that other hopefuls for the post will appear, including other "friends" of the chief executive, the White House said Monday. A day after Clinton, who was defea...

Source: FEDESURF Toronto, ON -- (ReleaseWire) -- 04/14/2015 -- Surf the Greats is an adventure travel company created by three friends – Antonio Lennert, Marcello Gortana, and Symon Oliver. This lifestyle brand was built on their shared passion for adventure, exploration, and love for nature. It is currently the first company in Toronto to offer organized surf adventures locally in the Great L...

Source: Wikimedia Commons Agents from the Office of Judicial Investigations (Spanish initials: OIJ) in Costa Rica believe that a businessman from the United States, who was shot multiple times in a shopping center located in the upscale community of Escazu, may have been targeted for assassination. As reported by The Costa Rica Star in March: An expat from the United States is in the intensiv...

Source: Sea Shepherd The crew of a vessel believed to be engaged in illegal fishing was rescued by members the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a direct-action ocean conservation group founded by the controversial Canadian activist Paul Watson. According to a news release recently published by Sea Shepherd: At 1152 GMT today, the notorious poaching vessel, Thunder, sank at 0˚ 20' North 05˚ ...

Wikimedia Commons SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - April 13, 2015) - Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT), the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced the launch of its Harmonic Video Network (HVN), an OTT video streaming service available at www.hvn.tv. Designed to provide video engineers with a valuable source of information related to video delivery infrastructure, the HVN-1 chann...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Face it! Men want to look good and feel good, from head to toe, and are looking for better choices for their shave and skin care. With the sales of all natural and organic personal care products expected to grow to $13B by 2019 driving the growth of the overall personal care category and a population of 101.6 million men in America between 15 – 64 shopp...

Screenshot of stratusoffshore.com Halifax - The Nova Scotia Securities Commission has issued a temporary cease trade order  (PDF) against Stratus Financial Group International (Stratus), Stratus Offshore, Magnus Torgenson and John Westbrook. The Commission received three complaints from Nova Scotia residents saying they were cold called by the company’s representatives pressuring them to in...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, has launched its Clean and Conserve Education Program to educate students about the importance of water conservation and hygiene. Developed in partnership with the Project WET Foundation, a nonprofit water resources education organization, the interactive curriculum is expected ...

Source: Pixabay Commons London, UK (April 2, 2015) - iDisrupted - Burlington, USA was one of the first cities in the world to run on renewable energy and now Costa Rica has becomes the first country to do so. This is a huge achievement for Costa Rica but a huge worry for traditional energy companies says author of new book iDisrupted. An environmental milestone has been achieved for Cost...

Wikimedia Commons Tijuana, Mexico, Apr 8 (EFE).- The Lo Yen City Chinese restaurant in Tijuana, a border city in northwestern Mexico, was closed for using dog meat in its dishes and not having a business license. Eyewitnesses said a person called the emergency services number after hearing a dog yowl, looking through a gate and seeing cooks at the restaurant in the El Rubi district butcheri...

CANATUR logo. Source: Pure Hospitality Solutions LAS VEGAS, April 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Hospitality Solutions, Inc., (OTC: PNOW) announced today, that Pure Hospitality Solutions has joined the National Tourism Center of Costa Rica – giving the Company an immediate opportunity to rapidly deploy, market and expand the reach of Oveedia throughout the country, to ultimately 6,000 properties...

Source: OWC Sportsfishing teams from around the world are getting ready for the 2015 edition of the Offshore World Championship, which takes place in Quepos, one of the best offshore fishing spots in our planet. The press release below was issued by a Caribbean team that is very serious about winning this year’s championship: Christiansted, USVI (PRWEB) April 12, 2015 - Cane Bay Partners VI...

Coliseum Alfonso Pérez in Getafe. Wikimedia Commons Getafe, Spain, Apr 12 (EFE).- Getafe and Villareal scrapped their way to a 1-1 tie in the 31st week of La Liga play at the Alfonso Perez Coliseum in a match during which Argentina's Mateo Musacchio was seriously injured and numerous yellow cards handed out, preventing the smooth development of the contest.   It was Ikechukwu Uche w...

Source: Flickr Commons A brutal beating during a robbery in Playa Tamarindo, one of the Gold Coast beaches of Guanacaste, resulted in the death of Barry Lawson, a 72-year old expatriate from the United States. According to a report by Guanacaste news website Primero en Noticias, the robbery took place on April 1st, and Mr. Lawson passed away days later at the CIMA Hospital in Escazú, province ...

Source: Presidencia Costa Rica At the 2015 Summit of the Americas in Panama, President Barack Obama of the United States called a special Civil Society Forum, to which only President Luis Guillermo Solís of Costa Rica and Tabaré Vásquez were invited. The topics discussed included: Education, support for the development of small businesses, technical support for the production of clean energy, ...

Source: The Sloth Institute March 17, 2015: (Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica) -Kids Saving the Rainforest/The Sloth Institute Costa Rica (KSTR/TSI), rolled out their Corporate Sponsorship Program, aimed at addressing a way to help bring more wildlife awareness and action through businesses operating in Costa Rica . The new Corporate Sponsor Program, begins on the heels of ICT’s recent promotion of ...

Source: ITV The first season of the successful reality television series Bear Grylls: Mission Survive will return for a second season, but it is not yet clear whether it will be filmed in Costa Rica again. As previously reported by The Costa Rica Star, the first season of Mission Survive was filmed in and around the cloud forests near the Arenal Volcano, and the series was arranged as a wil...

A baby volcanic rock in Costa Rica from the Turrialba volcano. Source: RSN Earth scientists at the National Seismology Network (Spanish initials: RSN) of the University of Costa Rica issued a statement yesterday that underscores the need for emergency planning and disaster preparedness in the communities near the Turrialba volcano, in the province of Cartago. Magmatic levels at this active col...

Justin Bieber performs in 2011. Wikimedia Commons Buenos Aires, Apr 10 (EFE).- An Argentine court has issued an international alert for the arrest of pop star Justin Bieber and two of his bodyguards on grounds of their alleged aggression against a photographer, judicial officials confirmed to Efe on Friday. Investigating Judge Alberto Baños asked Interpol for the "immediate detention" of th...

Mouthless crab, a resident of the mangrove in Costa Rica The Pacific and Caribbean shorelines of Costa Rica are home to various mangrove forests that are extremely important for marine and coastal ecosystems. These forests feature unique vegetation that thrives on brackish water, and which provides a fertile habitat for many wildlife species such as tropical fish, crabs, caimans, monkeys, bats...

CheapCaribbean.com DALLAS, April 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Are you a #TrueBeachLover looking for a vacation that's less money, less worry and more beach? Look no further than CheapCaribbean.com, which today debuted a new look, enhancing the leading beach vacation website as a gathering place for likeminded travelers along with expanded product offerings for sun-and-sand getaways. With the best t...

Sprint roaming OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Beginning today, Sprint (NYSE: S) is introducing International Value Roaming, giving customers the ability to travel to major areas in Latin America, Europe and Japan and roam with up to 2G speeds to read emails and surf the web at no additional charge1 . Additionally, they can send unlimited text messages for no extra charge, and they can c...

OECD member nations as of mid-2015. Wikimedia Commons The Republic of Costa Rica may soon be shedding her “Third World” geopolitical label and join the ranks of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). As you can glean from the official OECD press release below, Costa Rica is getting closer to joining a forum of nations that are committed to uphold democracy as well a...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ:SBUX) today announced critical advancements in research and transparency benefiting the entire specialty coffee industry as part of the evolution of its comprehensive ethical sourcing program and support of the sustainability of the specialty coffee industry. The company will make a decade of agronomy research available for commercializati...

Source: Facebook On the same day that Jewish and Christian faithful in Costa Rica were celebrating their respective religious holidays of Passover and Good Friday, a tragic accident claimed the life of Matthew Kritzer, an expatriate from the United States who resided in the Southern Pacific coast, specifically in the town of San Josecito in the Osa Peninsula. As recently posted by Nicole Hi...

Source: ITV LOS ANGELES, April 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Multimedia entertainment studio Electus, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IACI), today announced the programming slate Electus International will be bringing to market at MIPTV 2015 in Cannes, France. The studio's offerings reflect a mix of scripted, unscripted, and event programming, and include original series concepts developed by ...

Beautiful mountain forest views at AmaTierra In Costa Rica, there is a place where you can truly wash away stress and gain a new, healthy perspective on life. For countless people around the world, modern life is not conducive to relaxation due to its fast pace as well as countless factors that often make it difficult to just get through the day. At AmaTierra Retreat and Wellness Center in Cos...

Source: Chica Surf Adventures (PRWEB) April 07, 2015 / Chica Surf Adventures strives to share the love of the ocean, travel, and friendships among women of all ages. Women are sure to have an incredible experience of a lifetime in their surf camps where they surf together, laugh together, and formulate new lifelong friendships. Chica Surf Adventures announces camp dates for the month of April,...