by Rod Hughes
Francisco de Paula Gutierrez, president of Costa Rica’s Central Bank, expressed confidence that inflation could be reduced to 8% in 2008, due in part to a surplus left at the end of 2007, the first such surplus in recent years. The bank had hoped to hit the […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s national champion club, Saprissa, went all the way to the finals of Uruguay’s Copa Ricard soccer tourney but could not must quite enough force to win against Nacional of that country. The sides played to a scoreless tie, then began the shootout with penalty kicks. […]
by Rod Hughes
Tehran was frigid, just above freezing and it seemed to affect both sides in the exhibition match with Iran, resulting in a scoreless tie. Nonetheless, Costa Rica’s head coach Hernan Medford was satisfied. “”(Costa Rica” stacked up very well against a very good team…All my players did well, […]
by Rod Hughes
Surgeons at San Jose’s Calderon Guardia Hospital are satisfied with the recovery of Mairen Alvarez who received a heart and lung transplant at the hospital Jan. 17. The patient apparently shows no sign of rejecting the new organs and Monday was removed from the respirator.
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by Rod Hughes
Sometimes Mother Nature has a way of getting her vengeance in the most unique way. Case in point: the bizarre death in Carrillo, Guanacaste province of ZacarÃas Angulo, admired by his friends as an expert hunter. One night this week he and a companion, Jorge Barrantes, went out […]
by Rod Hughes
You can add a new traffic jam-generating hazard to San Jose’s streets to go with cars swerving to avoid pothole, pedestrians with death wishes, smoke-belching trucks and a plenitude of cars: attractive young ladies wearing short shorts or scanty skirts passing out advertising flyers to appreciative drivers.
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by Rod Hughes
Slowly but surely. The fifth of the 13 laws to implement the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) passed its first reading yesterday, aided by an unexpected boost by the opposition party PAC (Citizen Action Party in English). PAC, a bitter enemy of the trade pact passed last […]
