by Rod Hughes
Classes are set to open next Monday but Minister of Education Leonardo Garnier is still struggling with messes left him by his predecessors including a serious shortfall of classrooms, equipment and a chronic bureaucratic snarl in payment of salaries.
The daily newspaper La Nacion […]
by Rod Hughes
Saprissa fans may have worried that their team was exhausted after playing a soccer tournament last week in Uruguay, but they need not have bothered their little heads over it. Sunday, the Tibas side needed only a half an hour to ICE down a resounding 2-0 victory over Heredia. […]
by Rod Hughes
The Costa Rican soccer All-Stars go up against Jamaica tomorrow in Kingston’s National Stadium and coach Hernan Medford is looking for the first victory to end a dismal streak that began June 17 of last year without a victory–nine matches. Although it is an exhibition game, fans will […]
by Rod Hughes
The discovery of five bodies last week in a garbage dump in Costa Rica’s southern zone underscored the preoccupation of Chief Prosecutor Francisco Dall’Anese and Judicial Police (OIJ) director Jorge Rojas about organized, drug-related crime in the country. All the victims were Panamanians, all with their hands tied, […]
by Rod Hughes
A march was held Monday in San Jose to demonstrate opposition to the bloody-handed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerrilla group in that country responsible for thousands of deaths, corruption from their engagement in narcotics traffic, widespread kidnappings and a climate of fear in some […]
