by Rod Hughes
Although fraud laws makes it a misdemeanor to profess to deal in witchcraft, in the far corners of the country a few believers still fear sorcery. This is the motive given for the murder of a 24-year-old man in the Guaymi area of southern Costa Rica
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by Rod Hughes
Saprissa, the club that is currently defending champion of Costa Rica’s First Division soccer league, has been invited to play against several international powerhouses in Montevideo, Uruguay. Two games will be played per day in the Copa Ricard soccer extravaganza, that begins today.
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by Rod Hughes
Although no Costa Rican government official will confirm it, the newspaper Al Dia today reported that this country had rejected credentials of the ambassador Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez named nearly a year ago.
Jose Huerta, 66, was tapped in February, 2007, by Chavez as […]
by Rod Hughes
ICE, the government communications monopoly, feels the obligation to reimburse cell phone users for the 12-day interruption of service on its Alcatel net, according to ICE spokesman Elberth Duran.
The public telecommunications company is awaiting a technical study of what went wrong with the […]
by Rod Hughes
Private universities here graduated almost twice as many students as public higher education institutions last year, reports La Nacion, the country’s largest newspaper. In 2007, public universities graduated only 11,370 students contrasted against 19,876 in private colleges.
The central government’s budgetary bind has […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s firemen may pass from working as a dependency of the National Insurance Institute (INS) to a private bearer share corporation, if a bill to be passed out of committee for a Legislative Assembly floor vote prospers. The firemen may have been orphans of privatization when the […]
