Costa Rican water and sewerage utility AyA expects to begin work on three key water infrastructure projects by mid-August, the utility's project manager, Francisco Valverde, told BNamericas.

Detainees identified by Nicaraguan authorities as William Adolfo Cortez, right, of Texas, and his wife Jane Cortez, left, are shown by police to journalists after their arrival at the Judicial Assistance headquarters in Managua, Nicaragua, Tuesday.

Unions file complaint with US govt as attack on workers and unions continue in Costa Rica under free trade agreement In response to a Patrick-style military attack on dock workers in Costa Rica the International Longshore Workers Union has joined with local unions to take the company and the government to task for breaching its own labour laws.

It's not exactly a jaunt to the neighborhood park. This week and next, nine teenage campers at Renbrook School's Summer Adventure camp will be in Costa Rica to help renovate an elementary school.

MOPT Ordered To Indemnify Drivers For Delaying Closing San Jose - Caldera Costa Rica's constitutional court, the Sala Constitucional, sentenced the ministerio de Obras Publicas y Transportes for closing the autopista San Jose - Caldera too late, placing users of the highway at risk.

CAV International Inc. has received a multiyear awards from the U.S. military for continued and air terminal and ground services in Central and South America.

Their names are William Dathan Holbert and Laura Michelle Reese, and while they might turn out to be the Bonnie and Clyde of property theft their criminal resumes begin in the United States.

Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla has ruled out the possibility of reversing a decree allowing an open-pit gold mine to resume operations near the border with Nicaragua.

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Chinchilla said Tuesday that overturning the decree would mean paying $1.7 billion compensation to Industrias Infinito, the Costa Rican affiliate of Calgary-based Infinito Gold Ltd.