Costa Rica News

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Frontier Airlines today announced plans to expand its international service with the addition of a second Costa Rica destination. Frontier Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET), will launch seasonal service to Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR) beginning Feb. 13, 2011, with weekly nonstop flights to/from its hub at Denver International Airport (DEN). Introductory fares for this new service can be found at FrontierAirlines.com/introfares. “The addition of Liberia is a great compliment to our successful service to San José and now provides our guests with greater flexibility to enjoy all the natural beauty and relaxation

Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla Miranda said here Wednesday that the Latin American country is on the "right track" to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and "even exceed them," but stressed that more needs to be done. "Due to our historic commitment to collective welfare and our determination of reaching the Millennium Development Goals, Costa Rica is on the right track to achieve them and even exceed them by 2015," Miranda said at the UN high-level meeting on the MDGs, which entered its third day here Wednesday. The MDGs, endorsed by world leaders in September 2000, set out

23 September 2010 – Drug cartels now threaten the basic stability and social fabric of many Central American countries, Costa Rica’s President told the United Nations today, warning that the battle against narco-trafficking can only be won if nations worldwide overhaul their current strategies. “If we don’t react, we are at risk of being virtually taken by their gangs, with consequences that will transcend local spaces and will turn into a clear challenge to international security,” Laura Chinchilla Miranda said. She told the opening day of the General Assembly’s high-level debate that the illicit drug trade puts in jeopardy the