by Rod Hughes
This morning, 3.3 million phones in Costa Rica converted to eight digits, apparently without a glitch. Well, perhaps human forgetfulness may have caused some frustrations.
The 1.5 million fixed-base phones and the 1.8 million cellular phones currently in use all had numbers tacked on […]
by Rod Hughes
The National Liberation Party election last month of Antonio Calderon that put him into the powerful general secretary seat underscores the profound changes the party has undergone since its members nominated Oscar Arias for a second term in 2005. Calderon, 49, is a centrist who defeated his left-wing […]
by Rod Hughes
The Environmental Tribunal shut down three condominium projects yesterday because of damage to the habitat. They are the “Costa Montana” and “Hermosa Vista” condo projects near Jaco Beach as well as “Hills of Esterillos” at Parrita, totalling 360 dwellings in all.
According to the […]
by Rod Hughes
Properties and bank accounts of former President Miguel Angel Rodriguez (1998-2002) were embargoed by the courts last week in an ongoing investigation into corruption charges. A court order embargoed those of Cristobal Zawadzki as well. Zawadzki is an expresident of the government insurance monopoly, INS.
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by Rod Hughes
The tentacles of the leftist Colombian guerrilla force, FARC, appears to have reached out into this country even as FARC continues to cause friction between Colombia and Ecuador. The Organization of American States this week issued a condemnation of Colombia’s incursion into their neighbor to attack a FARC […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Rod Hughes
The 44-year-old carpenter accused of drunk driving in the accident that killed long-time hospital director Mario Bonilla Wednesday was found to have been at the wheel with more than three times the blood alcohol permitted to drive, said traffic police. The man remains in intensive care but is […]
by Rod Hughes
The headline in the daily paper Al Dia said it all ¨”Believe it or not, we´re number one in security.” But, according to a poll of businessmen and multinationals conducted by the Miami weekly, The Latin Business Chronicle, Costa Rica is the safest place in Latin America for […]
