Archive for November 2nd, 2007

Economic Growth Lowers Poverty Rate

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

by Rod Hughes

Economic growth, including a lower unemployment rate, has reduced the extreme poverty of this country from 20.2% of households in the country last year to 16.7%, according to the National Census and Statistics Institute. Unemployment figures fell from 6% to 4.6%, the […]

Education Ministry Investigates Dancer

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

by Rod Hughes
The Ministry of Education is investigating the winner of the popular local TV show, “Bailando por un Sueno” (Dancing for a Dream), for absences from her teaching job in Limon. The suspicion of the educators is that Hazel Linares practiced her moves for the dance competition while taking […]

Dramatic Saprissa Goal Dumps Alajuela

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

by Rod Hughes
Poor Alajuela. In two games, they had given up but two goals and had played far better in this match, leading for much of the time 1-0. Then, seconds into injury overtime in the second half, Wallace was unable to control the ball and Alejandro […]