by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s Catholic Church finds itself in the middle of a financial scandal involving apparent use of its pastoral bank accounts to channel funds from a Panamanian offshore investment house into a hotel company. A sum of $3 million went through the bank account when Grupo SAMA extended […]
by Rod Hughes
The 43 passengers and driver of a luxury bus narrowly escaped serious injury or death in a freak accident on the InterAmerican Highway south of the capital when a loose spare tire jarred off the bed of a small truck and slammed into the bus. Three passengers and […]
by Rod Hughes
Uh-oh, boys and girls, this does NOT look good! Saprissa, usually deadly on its own home pitch, tied 1-1 with the Mexican soccer club Pachuca Monday in Ricardo Saprissa Stadium in the first match of two to decide the CONCACAF champion,. Riding on these to matches is a […]
by Rod Hughes
The Costa Rican Foreign Ministry has turned down a request for political asylim by Mario Uribe, cousin and advisor to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. An ex-legislator, Mario Uribe is accused of having ties with paramilitary death squads.
An arrest warrant has been issued by […]
by Rod Hughes
Among the many places worth a visit here is the Juan Santamaria Historical Museum, named in honor of the country’s only war hero. (As this is written, the museum is closed for expansion and will not open until May. Ironically it was closed April 11, the holiday honoring […]
by Rod Hughes
Asignaciones Familiares, an important government welfare agency, finds itself unable to collect more than 66 billion colones (the colon is now about 487 per US dollar) to help some one million poor people. The daily paper La Nacion called the problem “a legal vacuum.”
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by Rod Hughes
Dos Pinos, the dairy products giant that not only has the lion´s share of the Costa Rican market for milk, ICE cream, etc. but is an exporter of these products, has been fined $150,000 by the Administrative Envrionment Tribunal, reported the newspaper La Nacion today. The fine […]
by Rod Hughes
Only 10% of the annual earnings from the National Lottery go to charitable works, revealed a Sunday La Nacion investigative report. The report is the second piece of bad news to hit the Junta de Proteccion Social (JPS), the lottery administrative board. Recently, a disgruntled winner sued JPS […]
by Rod Hughes
Prize fighting is not a big sport in Ticolandia but the country has turned out a few “name” fighters. Last Saturday at the National Stadium, Costa Rican heavyweight Carl Davies won a 10-round unannimous decision against Panamanian Luis Andres “the Wood-Splitter” Pineda. Pineda’s nickname comes from his bulk […]
by Rod Hughes
Cartago, fighting off demotion into the Second Division, surprised Perez-Zeledon 2-0 on its home pitch Sunday in the weekend’s only match in First Division soccer. P-Z was riding high and confident after its last match in which the southern warriors tromped leader Saprissa.
Everything […]
