Though touted as a model of environmental preservation, the country has recently signalled a shift from phasing out fossil fuels to boosting the economy. Franz Tattenbach on the tension between green credentials and growth“This country is what the world would like to be but is not,” says Franz Tattenbach, Costa Rica’s minister of environment and energy. The 69-year-old economist is keenly aware of his role as guardian of the country’s reputation for forward-looking biodiversity initiatives and...
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ST. GEORGE —The 2024 headliner for the 99.9 KONY Country Fourth of July celebration has been released. But wait. It’s not one performer this year. It’s three. “We really want this year, as soon as we open the gates until the last firework is fired in the sky, to entertain the crowd in a way […]
The following contains spoilers from the April 26 episode of CBS‘ Fire Country. This week on CBS’ Fire Country — in the wake of inmate Rudy’s escape and the unrelated murders that followed — Three Rock received a most untimely visit from locals who want the nearby prison fire camp shut down. NIMBY! and all. […]
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently appeared on four podcasts as he travels the country talking up the Liberals' latest budget.
David Kenwright oversaw team medal at Tokyo in 2021Coach hails ‘lasting positive impact for our sport’David Kenwright has left his role as the head coach of Great Britain’s women’s gymnastics team less than 100 days before the start of the Paris Olympics.Kenwright’s departure, after seven years in the post, also comes on the eve of the start of the women’s European artistic gymnastics championships in Rimini, Italy. Continue reading
The High Court of Dominica has overturned a colonial-era law banning same-sex relations between consenting adults after a gay man filed a lawsuit claiming the ban was unconstitutional. The complainant, […]
Celebrated painter ‘went down the drain from the 1930s’, claims Rebecca John in a new interviewThe granddaughter of Augustus John, Britain’s most famous and successful artist of the early 20th century, has delivered a damning critique of his later works. Rebecca John, the leading authority on the artist, says in her first interview for two decades that “most should have been burned. My grandfather went down the drain from the 1930s onwards, drank too much, lost his judgment, and took every...
Collections by ex-Spice Girl had been too dear for most but deal with affordable chain forecast to help tip VB business into profitWhen Victoria Beckham debuted her first collection of just 10 dresses in a luxury hotel suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in 2008, she told the sceptical assembly of the world’s most powerful fashion editors that she had “spent a lifetime wanting to do this”.“It’s what I always dreamed of since I customised my school uniform when I was 7 years old,” she said....
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Sketch artist Elizabeth Williams, who was in the courtroom for Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial, joins CNN’s Erin Burnett to talk about how Trump’s attention may have changed in Day 6 of the trial.