Archive for the 'Costa Rica News' Category

Presidential Winner to be Announced … very soon

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

As of today, the TSE can announce the next President of Costa Rica.  But we are still not sure when that will be.  The time permitted for appeal the manual scrutiny of the final polling stations has expired.  The TSE has 695 appeals in total to resolve, and currently 210 of those are pending.  Once […]

PAC Clarifies Ethics Code for Representatives

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

In a weekend conference the PAC party re-emphasized its ethics code for the 18 legislators that will take congressional seats on May 1st.  Although the new reps were familiar with the code, Marta Zamora, the current fraction leader, said that after training courses it was necessary to “replant certain points”.
The reinforced points dealt with voting […]

Gas Prices to Drop…

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

After an initial rise at the beginning of the year, gas prices are to drop this week.
Super from 488 to 463 Colones
Regular from 466 to 440 Colones
Diesel from 335 to 313 Colones
Dollar per Gallon Conversion (Super) 463 / 500 Colones per dollar = $ 0.926 per liter
$ 0.935 per liter X 3.785 liters per […]

La Sele Journeys to Iran

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

The national soccer team began an incredible journey Sunday and was to arrive after midnight Costa Rica time to Tehran.  They were scheduled to test the pitch at 6:30 am our time. 24 hours later is game time, where temperatures were expected to be near 60 degrees at the start of the match.
Players had to […]