Costa Rica vs Nicaragua Prediction and Betting Tips | October 13th 2025

Costa Rica will host Nicaragua at the Estádio Nacional de Costa Rica on Monday in the fourth game of their 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers - CONCACAF third round clash. Both teams will be hoping to get their first win in this stage of the...

U.S. has two months to take Celso

Q COSTARICA — The United States will have two months to transfer to its territory Celso Manuel Gamboa Sánchez, Edwin Danney López Vega, alias Pecho de Rata, and Jonathan Guillermo Álvarez Alfaro, alias Gato or Profe, the first three Costa Ricans...

Costa Rica faces a silent mental health crisis

Q COSTARICA — Costa Rica is experiencing a silent mental health crisis. Between 2023 and 2025, the country recorded 7,527 suicide attempts, an issue that took center stage on World Mental Health Day. According to reports from the Ministry of...

Hustlers Gamblers Crooks season 2 episode 3 - How did the father and son get caught?

Season 2 episode 3 of Hustlers Gamblers Crooks, titled Cocaine Pizza, dives into the case of Gregorio and Angelo Gigliotti, a father-and-son team from Queens, New York, who ran a cozy neighborhood pizzeria that secretly served as the front for an...

Costa Rica gets $250m EIB loan for electric rail project

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved a $250m loan to Costa Rica to finance the development of the country’s first electric train system. The loan, provided through EIB Global, marks EIB’s initial lending operation in Costa Rica and the...

Tax revenues are slowing; are more taxes needed?

Q COSTARICA — At the end of August, the Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of Finance) reported a cumulative net increase in total revenue of ¢85.176 billion colones compared to the same period in 2024. However, the apparent good news also includes...

A Yemeni man fleeing persecution requested asylum in the U.S. ICE deported him as the Trump administration bombed Yemen

Ali didn’t know the U.S. government was deporting him to Yemen until the plane that officials put him on landed in Egypt in June. He begged to be allowed to stay in Egypt instead of boarding the additional flight back to the homeland from which he...

Costa Rica’s young who aren’t working or looking for work have hit 65%, the highest it’s been in ten years.

Q COSTARICA — Not even the pandemic has hit youth employment in Costa Rica as hard as it has in recent months: the number of young people outside the labor force has reached 65%, meaning that practically two out of three are out of the labor...

Georgia Elementary and Middle School students call for action to help Monarch Butterflies

Editor's note: The first part of this story was written in partnership with the fifth-grade GEMS students who learned about the Monarch Butterfly and issues affecting its population. GEORGIA — Vermont’s state butterfly is finding itself with a...

Police Barge Into Nicaragua’s Locker Room Before World Cup Qualifier To Try To Arrest Player Charged With Ducking Child Support

EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP via Getty Images Nicaragua didn’t need any unnecessary distractions heading into a crucial World Cup qualifier with Costa Rica on Monday night. Unfortunately, the team found itself dealing with one right before the match got...

Costa Rica’s Nayara Springs Named Among World’s Best Hotels by MICHELIN

Nayara Springs, a secluded adults-only resort near Arenal Volcano National Park, has claimed the highest spot in the MICHELIN Guide’s new hotel rankings. The property received Three MICHELIN Keys, marking it as the first hotel in Costa Rica to...

New STAR guidance supports governments and civil society in accelerating Nature-Positive action…

To expand uptake of the Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric, IUCN has launched two new guidance documents for use by governments and civil society. These publications enrich IUCN’s body of guidance on species conservation action...

Preview: Costa Rica vs Nicaragua - prediction, team news, lineups

Sports Mole previews Monday's World Cup Qualifying - North Central America clash between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. Costa Rica need to urgently get their qualifying form back on track when they...

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem poised to run unopposed for second term

Ben Sulayem has been FIA president since December 2021 former employees have expressed concerns over governance standards at motorsport’s governing body Election to take place this December Mohammed Ben Sulayem is set to run unopposed in this...

Costa Rica Proposes Date for Chaves Immunity Review

Costa Rica’s lawmakers took a step forward today in addressing the latest push to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal protections. The Legislative Assembly proposed October 20 as the date to begin outlining how they will handle the Supreme...

Costa Rica’s Electoral Court seeks to lift President Rodrigo Chaves’s immunity

Assembly to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his immunity from prosecution. The request, announced on October 7, is based on allegations that the president committed acts of “political bias” by illegally involving himself in electoral politics to...

International network of Asian scammers is busted in Costa Rica

RICO’s q — Cyber fraud took a serious hit this Wednesday when agents from the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) – Judicial Investigation Agency – swooped in with coordinated raids across Heredia, Palmares, and downtown San José. Their...

FirstRock completes third KFC project in Costa Rica

First Rock Real Estate KFC partnership in Costa Rica. October 10, 2025 KINGSTON, Jamaica — FirstRock Real Estate Investments (FirstRock) has completed its third development project for KFC Costa Rica through its subsidiary, First Rock LATAM S.A....

Costa Rica Nominates Rebeca Grynspan for UN Secretary-General Amid Calls for First Female Leader

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has announced the nomination of Rebeca Grynspan, a former vice president and current head of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), for the position of United Nations Secretary-General. The...

World Cup qualifier thrown into chaos after police storm dressing room to ARREST player

By TUM BALOGUN, SPORTS REPORTER Published: 11:21 EDT, 14 October 2025 | Updated: 11:21 EDT, 14 October 2025 Nicaragua's preparations for a crucial World Cup qualifier were thrown into disarray when nine police officers stormed into their dressing...