December 23,2007
The mechanic phoned me on Tuesday morning, wondering if I was still interested in the motor. So, I waited for Jose to come home. When he did, he phoned his brother, Marvin, and asked if he would go to Heredia for the motor. […]
by Rod Hughes
Former Ombudsman Jose Manuel Echandi, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2006 on the back of a campaign stressing his integrity and transparency, has dumped his National Union Party. Echandi says that 300 million colones was contributed to the party’s executive committee but what became of […]
by Rod Hughes
Three persons were sentenced yesterday in connection with the July 7, 2001, gangland-style murder of gadfly radio journalist Parmenio Medina. Businessman Omar Chaves was convicted of being the brains behind the killing and condemned to 35 years in prison. The accused triggerman, Luis Alberto “El Indio” Aguirre, was […]
by Rod Hughes
Saprissa swept past Heredia Wednesday evening, 2-0, and made it look easy. As La Nación points out, this places the Tibas boys only 90 minutes away from winning the so-called Opening Tourney.
The regular soccer season is divided into two parts in Costa Rica’s […]
by Rod Hughes
Henry Raabe continues to lead individual performance in the Tour of Costa Rica bicycle race, but the third place Dos Pinos-Coopenae team mounted an attack on his BCR-Pizza Hut teammates in an attempt to pull out a team win, if nothing else. BCR-Pizza Hut has the team laurels […]
by Rod Hughes
The Traffic Law, entailing stricter fines and jail time for infractors, is nearing a floor vote in the Legislative Assembly. An important vote in the Judicial Affairs Committee on Riteve’s monopoly of vehicular inspection is due this afternoon.
Several weeks ago, the English-language weekly […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s equivalent of the FBI director, Jorge Rojas, revealed his plans to step down from his director post on the country’s investigative agency, OIJ, to take early retirement. He gave as his reason the sad underfunding that makes it impossuble for the agency to meet the […]
by Rod Hughes
Could interplanetary rocket technology be used to convert dangerous hospital rubbish such as syringes and discarded scalples into a fine sand, apt for surfacing concrete?
Carlos Enrique Alvarado, a student of construction engineering at Costa Rica Technological Institute, brought the proposal to the AD […]
by Rod Hughes
Maybe if people are made to wait too long, they lose interest. Despite ICE receptionists being braced for a flood of seekers of cell phone lines, only 2,686 showed up yesterday to obtain their coveted new GPS lines, La Nacion reported today.
ICE, the […]
by Rod Hughes
ICE, the government telecommunications monopoly, has released 350,000 GSM cellular telephone lines for sale. If this seems too good to be true, it is; 200,000 have already been reserved.
Still, it was good news for a country in which the demand for cell phone […]
