Costa Rica News – Alto Telire, Talamanca is a remote area. The indigenous culture and language is Cabécar. In this remote area, and others like it, there are typically multigrade classrooms. The local school, Escuela de Bajo Bley, has 25 students of all ages. The only teacher for the whole school left last September and has…
Over the last week, Rincón de la Vieja has had a few small explosions that rained ash in the area near the volcano. This is the volcano’s first bout of activity since a brief period of noise during September 2014. Neither explosion was particularly large, with a small ash plume that was less than a…
Hydroelectric workers in Costa Rica found 66 human settlements, dating back to some 12,200 years, making it the oldest archeological site in Central America. According to a radiocarbon analysis, the materials discovered are the oldest in the region, the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity said in a statement. Archaeological work began this year and managed…
Costa Rica News – For all those looking to buy alcohol during Semana Santa in Costa Rica, you might have to drive a little bit to get some beer or your favorite spirit. So far 17 municipalities have said they will apply “prohibition” during Good Thursday and Good Friday of Semana Santa, while 26 will…
Costa Rica News – A possible owner of the 5Dimes sportsbook has been found via an obituary for the death of Marianne Creighton. The only child of this woman and Sean Creighton is Allison Stawarz. Allison’s name is linked to money laundering using a scheme involving betting with Amazon gift cards. When tracking the woman they were…
Costa Rica News – Uber was essentially forced to leave its stand at the Expoempleo job fair in the old customs house, although it is said that they left by choice. They did so to allow the fair to continue without trouble. The trouble I’m referring to is that taxi drivers showed up and blocked all…
Entertainment News – I do not expect we will see this in Costa Rica anytime soon, unless it can decipher the addresses that make it difficult to find anything. Domino’s New Zealand has introduced the world’s first pizza delivery droid. The three-foot-tall pepperoni purveyor delivers “piping hot meals” and has a “cheeky personality,” said the…
Costa Rica News – Someone like the Lord of the Rings Trilogy a lot. Manuel Barrantes started his hobbity quest for an underground home 12 years ago. Like any good hobbit, the Costa Rican man doggedly pursued his dream and now lives in an underground mansion he’s dubbed Topolandia. Barrantes says the subterranean quarters offer…
Poker has been experiencing a bit of a boom over the last few years, no more so than in Costa Rica and Latin America as a whole. The industry is growing online and in land based casinos, and Latin America is now producing some very talented home-grown poker players. The future looks bright for the…
This could be the beginning of the end of the sportsbook industry in Costa Rica, or at least for one of them. Sportsbooks, or online sports betting businesses, are very popular in Costa Rica and are widely used by those in countries that don’t allow such gambling domestically. One of them, 5Dimes, has come under…