Archive for March 17th, 2008

Woman President for CR? Arias Thinks So

Monday, March 17th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
Perhaps it was the strong run for the Democrat nomination of Sen. Hillary Clinton in the United States that prompted the question from La Nacion reporter Alvaro Murillo to President Oscar Arias: Is this country ready for a woman president?
Arias’s response […]

Cartago Bids to Pull out of Cellar

Monday, March 17th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
Well, anything can happen in soccer. Yesterday, cellar-dweller Cartago rose up and smote San Carlos, 1-0, to pull itself laboriously within two points of an equally struggling University of Costa Rica in the sweepstakes of which team will wind up being banished to the wilderness of the […]

Government Reluctant to Spend Budget?

Monday, March 17th, 2008

by Rod Hughes
What’s this? A government reluctant to spend its budget? Unheard of!
But a closer reading of today’s La Nacion article reveals that the seven governmental entities involved in penny-pinching are not as virtuous as they seem. (Are government bodies ever?) The Comptroller […]