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Costa Rica gunman shoots neighbor dead in dispute over water sprinkler use

SAN JOSE — Terrifying video captured the moment an enraged man pulled out a gun and shot his neighbor dead during a dispute outside their homes in Costa Rica earlier…

John McCarthy June 5, 2024

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Tourist: You Can’t Escape Pot Smoke In STT or STJ; Calls USVI ‘Purgatory’ and ‘A Robbery’

Goodnight, I can't stay with my bad or bad experiences for hundreds to live and with my uneasy conscience. We spent 5 days in Saint Thomas and Saint John, from…

John McCarthy March 11, 2023

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‘Sharp rise’ In Nicaraguans Fleeing To Costa Rica, Strains Asylum System

Around three per cent of Costa Rica’s population is now made up of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. Doubling in number over…

VI Free Press March 26, 2022

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Nicaragua Finds Boat With Bodies Of 6 Migrants In Caribbean

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraguan authorities said the bodies of six people, apparently migrants, have been found in a small boat drifting off the Caribbean coast. The Interior Ministry said a…

VI Free Press March 5, 2021