The TSE announced that no votes can be made in the Costa Rican embassies or consulates by Costa Ricans living overseas. This announcement came as a result of a petition filed by Jose Manuel Echandi, former Ombudsman. The TSE justices referred to ruling 2531-E-2005 of October 26, 2005, which stated that the TSE is only […]
As of midnight, fuel for your vehicle will be more expensive. Super will go up 35 colones, regular 34 colones and diesel 16 colones. The new rates:Super - 457 colones(457 colones / 500 colones per dollar = 91 cents per liter x 3.785 liters per gallon = $ 3.45 per gallon)Regular - 436 colones(436 colones […]
RESULTS
Santa Cruz 1 - Brujas 2 Puntarenas 1 - Alajuela 0 Carmelita 2 - Liberia 0San Ramon 1 - Pérez Zeledón 1 Santos 1 - Saprissa 2 Cartago 0 - Heredia 2
Standings
TEAM
Games
Won
Tied
Lost
GF-GA
PTS
GRUOP A
Puntarenas
3
3
0
0
6-1
9
Saprissa
3
3
0
0
5-2
9
Herediano
3
2
0
1
4-2
6
Liberia
3
2
0
1
4-4
6
San Ramon
3
1
1
1
2-2
4
Santa Cruz
3
0
0
3
3-6
0
GRUPO B
Pérez Zeledón
3
1
1
1
3-4
4
Carmelita
3
1
0
2
4-4
3
Alajuela
2
1
0
1
2-2
3
Brujas
3
1
0
2
2-3
3
Cartago
3
1
0
2
2-5
3
Santos
2
0
0
2
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On Monday, President Abel Pacheco and the Minister of Public Works, Rándall Quirós, announced that the InterAmerican Highway and 2 other routes will be fixed before they leave office in May. The plan covers 4500 kilometers of highway in 22 separate maintenance contracts. The priority repairs are:
- Interamerican North, the Guanacaste routes.
- Interamerican South, routes […]
According to the latest Demoscopia - Al Dia poll, Oscar Arias would win over 40% of the vote in an election held today.
In the poll 45.5% of voters said they would choose Arias24.1% Otton Solís15 % Otto Guevara.
The other 11 candidates shared 15% of the vote and the margin of error was 2.8 […]
The ICE is studying the possibility of paying sugar cane farmers to generate electricity from waste products generated during the sugar cane harvest. Some producers generate energy for their own use, but the new project would allow them to invest in larger plants which would produce excess energy which could be sold.
This energy would […]
If your license plates are faded or illegible, don’t paint them. The inspection manual lists painted plates as a grave flaw which will cause your vehicle to fail the inspection. This defect is becoming more and more common, in December 1667 vehicles were failed because the plates were repainted.
Plates must be legible, original and […]
The US Embassy here has again denied a tourist visa to an 8 year old girl with terminal AIDS. Marlone Ávila, Director of the Fundación Vida, tried to assist the girl with her dying wish to go to Disneyland. " I took everything they asked, but the consul said that AIDS infected people may not […]
NASA began this week the Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment (CR-AVE) which will study climate changes and the recuperation of the Ozone Layer. The mission consists of 12 flights that began January 14th and will end February 12th. The objective is to validate data from the AURA satellite.
Jorge Andrés Díaz confirmed that the UFOs that […]
Oscar Arias declared on Tuesday that he didn’t see any need for Jose Maria Figueres to return to the country to answer questions about his involvment in the Alcatel - ICE corruption scandal. Figueres received $ 900,000 in consulting fees from a firm hired by Alcatel to "increase market share" in Costa Rica’s telecommunications monopoly. […]
