Malnutrition killed 17 children and 17 adults over 65 between 2002 and 2006, a study shows. “It’s shameful that, in a country like this one, children still die of hunger,” said Ministry of Health expert Rosa María Novygrodt. The irony that far more children—one out of four—are overweight.
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by Rod Hughes
The news that firearm registration hit a record 8,551 last year (see previous newsblog) raises questions about legal concerns in using a firearm in self defense. It also begs a question about requirements in obtaining a legal firearm in Costa Rica.
Costa Rican law […]
by Rod Hughes
ARESEP, the government utilities watchdog, will gradually eliminate the subsidy that has cushioned homeowners’ electrical rates for years beyond counting. Instead, the burden has been shouldered by industry and retail commerce who have paid higher rates to offset the loss to ICE, the government electrical monopoly.
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by Rod Hughes
It is not unusual to see women climb to high places in Costa Rica—leader of a party delegation in the Legislative Assembly or the Vice Presidency, for example—but until now no Tica has aspired to climb quite so high as Gineth Soto. In fact, Soto plans to go […]
by Rod Hughes
Residents of, and visitors to,Costa Rica may want to watch the skies tomorrow night when the shadow of the earth will cover the moon entirely. The view will be best under the clear skies of Guanacaste province.
The eclipse […]
by Rod Hughes
The Canadian market for fresh goods such as fruit as well as flowers and plants is demanding more and more Costa Rican products. Such tropical fruits as mango, papaya, coconuts and pineapple are no longer novelties on Canadian dining tables, even when the snow is up […]
by Rod Hughes
Despite the undoubted success of universal education in Costa Rica, a pioneering movement in the Third World, school officials have been worried by the number of dropouts. Although classrooms and teachers are free, many youngsters abandon their education because their parents cannot pay for uniforms and […]
by Rod Hughes
It was civic fiesta time in the Pacific port city of Puntarenas as they hosted Heredia’s soccer team yesterday, and they had all the bells an whistles— sporting new uniforms, a new name (Puntarenas Futbol Club) and a new logo, a shark. Then Heredia de-finned the club, 2-0, […]
by Rod Hughes
An antiquated article of the Family Code that forbade women to remarry in less than 300 days after their divorce was struck down by the Fourth Chamber of the Supreme Court as being discriminatory against women. The high court noted that men were not subjected to the same […]
by Rod Hughes
In the past months more than 200 Costa Ricans lacking proper documents have been deported from the United States by the Immigration and Nationalization Service, the dreaded “Migra” that is the bane of illegal aliens in that country. Most of them had stamps in their passports that simulated […]
