2/18/6
Yesterday, I paid my phone and electricity bills. I mention this only because I find the payment system very different here. The bill doesn’t come in the mail. You need to know when it is due, and where to go to pay it. A little store in Judas takes the money for the electrical bill, […]
2/17/6
We have 2 friends from Canada visiting us for 2 weeks, Gary and Jim. Yesterday we headed out early in their rented 4×4 to explore the Nicoya Peninsula. Just north of here, shortly after we entered Guanacaste Province, a policemen stopped us to let some schoolchildren cross. When they had crossed, he told us to […]
During the week the TSE was able to reach a 600 daily polling station count, which is the normal rate for the hand count from past elections, according to magistrate Luis Antonio Sobrado. The party representatives either got bored, or began to trust more in the judgement of TSE staff who hand count the votes. […]
Be careful with 5000 colon and 10 000 colon bills, which are being reproduced by hi-tech gangs who are being targeted by authorities. The gangs operate out of homes using a computer, scanner and printer to produce the false bills.
Chief Fraud Investigator Randall Zamora, of the OIJ, stated that "it is hard to say […]
The so-called hawks that sell places in line and assist with paperwork at Immigration were the target of a special operative by officials this week. The "entrepeneurs" have resulted from Immigration’s practice of only giving 500 passport appointments per day. The "hawks" camp out overnight and place 50 chairs at the entrance to immigration to […]
This year the Liceo de Costa Rica (Costa Rica High School) is the only public school to offer the prestigious IB (International Baccalaureate) program. This diploma is recognized internationally and would allow local students to be accepted more readily (and possibly to obtain scholarships more easily) into some of the world’s leading universities.
While students […]
Tourney of Closure - 8th Round Results
Pérez Zeledón - Saprissa 2 - 1 Santos - Carmelita 2 - 0 San Ramon - Alajuela 1 - 0 Brujas - Cartago 1 - 1 Santa Cruz - Puntarenas 0 - 0 Heredia - Liberia 2 - 0
Standings
TEAM
Games
Won
Tied
Lost
GF-GA
PTS
GROUP A
Puntarenas
8
5
2
1
13-6
17
Saprissa
8
5
2
1
12-8
17
Liberia
8
5
0
3
12-11
15
Heredia
8
4
2
2
7-8
14
San Ramon
8
2
1
5
3-7
7
Santa Cruz
8
2
0
6
5-14
4
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"We say to PAC: welcome to the biparty banquet". Said the president of PLN, Francisco Antonio Pacheco, on election day, recognizing the good results turned in by PAC and the collapse of PUSC in the legislature.
But this raised some hackles on the other side of the table. Epsy Campbell, current representative and vice-presidential candidate […]
Despite early claims of victory by some PLN officials, and veiled calls for capitulation from Oscar Arias, the ballot counting continues to be close. No winner is expected to be clear until the last tables are counted. In yesterday’s count, Solís won by 9,894 votes, making the overall difference 4,485 in favor of Solís.
37.96% […]
The largest luxury liner in the world, the Queen Mary II will dock in the Pacific port of Caldera on Friday. With 2,600 passengers and 1400 crew, this is the second attempt at docking in Costa Rica for the first time. On January 11th, the ship was scheduled to dock in Limon, but high seas […]
