Continuing their slide from decent to poor, the Costa Rican national team lost 2-1 to Poland in a meaningless game for both teams. Although Costa Rica avoided giving up goals in the first part, and even led for the first time in this World Cup, the weak defense cost them this game too.
In 3 matches […]
By Annette Carter - Special to A.M. Costa Rica
Development experts have a lot to learn from a small group of Indian women deep in the jungles of Talamanca near Costa Rica’s border with Panama. It is a story of an isolated BriBri village struggling against the modern world, unable to preserve its culture, its language, […]
By Katherine Stanley - Tico Times Staff
President Oscar Arias, who returned Sunday from his two-week tour of Switzerland, Germany and Italy, met with the press at Casa Presidencial yesterday to discuss his meeting with Pope Benedict XVI and other aspects of his trip. During the papal visit, the President voiced his support for contraceptive methods […]
By Katherine Stanley - Tico Times Staff
As President Oscar Arias in Europe urged other countries to adopt measures to reduce the arms trade and reward peace-seeking countries, some legislators back home are claiming that the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA), which Arias supports, would allow other countries to import […]
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) announced Friday that it signed a $7.5 million contract with the Costa Rican company GBM to provide advanced Internet service throughout Costa Rica, according to a statement from the institute.
The agreement is part of plans by ICE, the state-run electricity and telecommunications […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Asamblea Legislativa will be getting a proposed rewrite of the country’s liquor law that seeks to end the secondary market in licenses and create more permits for restaurants and tourist locations.
The set of proposals is being promoted by Evita Arguedas Maklouf, leader of the Movimiento LIbertario in the assembly. […]
6/17/6
Linda’s holiday is almost over. We got a lot done. The shoots for the grass are doing well, and some of the seeds have started to sprout. Jose invented a tool to make furrows for the seed so that fewer will be […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
National soccer team coach Alexandre Guimaraes and his unsuccessful team better look into getting political asylum in Germany, if the opinions of average Ticos have any weight.
As the team was falling 3-0 to Ecuador Thursday morning, grown men were crying in San José. For some here the team is an […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Another icon has fallen. The Sala IV has ruled that guaro produced in Costa Rica by a government monopoly may face competition.
The ruling, released Thursday by the press office of the Poder Judicial, was a narrow one and related only to sugar cane liquor called guaro with an alcohol content […]
In what was been labeled during the live broadcast as the “worst ever performance” in Costa Rica’s World Cup history, Costa Rica went down in flames today to an inspired Ecuador squad. In Group A, Germany and Ecuador are now locks for the second round.
Coach Guimaraes took full responsibility in the press conference, while deferring […]
