Archive for March 8th, 2007

Eight Honored on International Women’s Day

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Isabel Guzman is a traffic cop. Young Cindy Cerdas is a San Jose Municipality motor pool mechanic.
They are two of eight women honored Thursday on International Women’s Day for their gender stereotype-breaking jobs in Costa Rica, where the old machismo habits are hard to break. Ask Guzman, for instance. When she first drove a Traffic […]

Puntarenas Slams Saprissa 3-1

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

by Rod Hughes
La Nacion sportswriter Gustavo JimĂ©nez called it a “tsunami.” Three goals Wednesday night flashed past Saprissa goaltender Jose Francisco Porras in four minutes as Saprissa’s defense, which had looked reasonably competent in recent games, collapsed completely before an onslaught led by—but you probably already guessed—Kurt Bernard.
Bernard, last year’s leading scorer, fed a […]