by Rod Hughes
Communications between land lines and cellular phones will be broken for a phone company (ICE) test from midnight Saturday night (March 1) to 6 a.m Sunday morning for a phone company (ICE) test, reported The Tico Times Online. The temporary interruption of service is due to a test […]
by Rod Hughes
Despite the economic woes of Costa Rica’s biggest export market and main source of tourism (the United States), 400 local business owners overwhelmingly predicted this country’s economic growth will continue or even improve this year. The poll was conducted by the Union of Private Sector Chambers and Associations […]
By Rod Hughes
Mavis Biesanz, non-fiction author and a longtime resident of Costa Rica, died last week at CIMA Hospital in Escazú last week of an acute lung infection at the age of 88. She is best known for the definitive book on Costa Rican culture, ¨The Ticos: Culture and Social […]
by Rod Hughes
Alajuela showed its old form finally this season, confronting Heredia with its old brand of wonderful soccer, crisp attacks, well planned approaches and all the trimmings. And they came away Wednesday night with no points earned, thanks to Heredia goalie Ricardo González.
González may […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s future trade partners in the Central American Free Trade Agreement have granted Costa Rica a seven-month extension on the deadline for getting its house in order so the treaty can go into effect here. This country’s lawmakers still have to pass 10 bills designed to bring […]
by Rod Hughes
As of January, Pedro Pablo Quiros, president of the government monopoly in telecommunications and electric generation, ICE, is making about a third more than President Oscar Arias, reported the newspaper Al Dia this morning. Worse for the electricity consumers, the board of directors voted salary hikes of 20% […]
by Rod Hughes
A mother, 42 years old, and her 26-year-old daughter drew stiff sentences in one of the country’s most gruesome crimes in recent memory— the stabbing murder of a 22-year-old pregnant woman and the forcible extraction of her eight month fetus. Sandra Monge was sentenced to the maximum 35 […]
by Rod Hughes
Are any of our readers old enough to remember when, in order to give a musical concert, you just turned up the stage lights a bit and positioned a spotlight in front of a microphone? Oh, yes, and put on your best suit and tie to croon into […]
by Rod Hughes
Knowing governments, parliamentary bodies and politics in general, it should come as no great shock that sole members of their minuscule parties in the Legislative Assembly boast the biggest staffs. And who pays the salaries of those assistants? Guess, fellow taxpayers!
In all, […]
by Rod Hughes
As La Nacion sportwriter Arnoldo Rivera described it, both Alajuela and Puntarenas rushed out on the pitch at Puntarenas’s Lito Perez stadium with far more spirit than science, both breathing fire. It was a see-saw battle for a 2-2 result. At least no spectator dozed off lest he […]
