On Wednesday afternoon the TSE finished the manual scrutiny and did not declare Oscar Arias the next president of Costa Rica, although he leads by a comfortable 1.12 per cent.
Arias has 664,545 votes (40.9%) and Solís 646,378 (30.8%), so the lead is now 18,167. These are official figures with 100% of the 6,163 polling stations […]
Saprissa and Alajuela brought home good news from forays outside the country this week. Saprissa went to Los Angeles and brought back a 0-0 tie with the Los Angeles Galaxy.
Alajuela went to Bermuda and tied the New England Revolution by the same score 0-0.
This puts pressure on the American teams to come to Costa […]
The latest election news indicates that a winner will be obvious, but not declared when the TSE finishes the manual recount today, probably around noon local time.
Last night at the 8 pm report, Oscar Arias took a commanding - for this race - lead of 10 275 votes with 95.93 per cent of the polling […]
After 13 days of counting until their fingers are numb, TSE officials will finally finish the official vote count for the presidential race on Wednesday. Well before the 30 day time limit mandated by law.
On Monday, TSE staff finished the Guanacaste count and started the Puntarenas count which will conclude today. The Limon […]
Costa Rica’s Paternity law, passed in 2003, has resulted in an increase every year of DNA based paternity testing.
Edna Meléndez, head of the DNA lab, said that in 2005 there were 1.600 DNA tests and confirmed that 82 per cent were positive. This means that nearly 20% of the mothers did not know […]
Even though the vote count is not final, the state’s re-imbursement of parties for campaign costs has been defined according to the manual count and preliminary reports for legislator and city council members.
The state must pay out 13.900 Billion colones campaign funding, this is 0.19 per cent of the Gross National Product. This money […]
While the presidential race is still as close as ever, the legislature is the scene of another kind of race: that of the "advisors" to line up jobs for the next 4 years. According to Antonio Ayales, executive director of the Assembly, 355 consultants are skating on thin ICE. "Every four years this situation presents […]
TOURNEY OF CLOSURE RESULTS
Alajuela – Heredia 1 – 0 Cartago – Santos 0 – 0 Liberia – Pérez Zeledón 2 – 1 Carmelita – Santa Cruz 1 - 0 Puntarenas – San Ramon 2 - 1 Saprissa – Brujas 2 - 0
TEAM
Games
Won
Tied
Lost
GF-GA
PTS
GROUP A
Puntarenas
9
6
2
1
15-7
20
Saprissa
9
6
2
1
14-8
20
Liberia
9
6
0
3
14-12
18
Heredia
9
4
2
3
7-9
14
San Ramon
9
2
1
6
4-9
7
Santa Cruz
9
1
1
7
5-15
4
GROUP B
Santos
9
4
2
3
10-8
14
Carmelita
8
4
1
3
[…]
On Saturday the TSE finished counting by hand the Heredia polling stations and these were the last in the Metropolitan Area. Guanacaste, Puntarenas and Limon are the areas with tables that have yet to be scrutinized.
To date, Arias has received 556,757 votes and Solis 574,612. This represents 4695 polling stations (80.56% of the total) […]
On Friday the US embassy authorized a tourist visa so that an 8 year old AIDS patient may visit the Disney theme park in Orlando Florida.
Twice before she was denied, but this time the application was approved because of a special exception given by the department of Homeland Security.
The story made headlines on […]
