by Rod Hughes
In a surprise move Sunday, on the eve of his scheduled testimony in front of lawmakers on FARC guerrilla penetration into Costa Rica, Minister of Public Security Fernando Berrocal from his post. The resignation came after a huddle at the residence of President Oscar Arias in the western […]
by Rod Hughes
Head coach Hernan Medford’s job is still safe—for now—despite an 11-game losing streak. The most recent defeat for Costa Rica’s national team came Wednesday in an exhibition game in South America, losing to Peru 3-1. (Fortunately, the match was not aired on TV here because of technical difficulties […]
by Rod Hughes
Who ever heard of a supposedly Third World country where local business looks abroad for labor? But precisely that is happening in Costa Rica, where unemployment at well below 5% and a lack of capacity in training programs has businesses scrambling to find skilled labor.
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by Rod Hughes
The discovery of a safe containing $480,000 of funds in a Heredia home, left there by officials of the murderous Colombian guerrilla group FARC, (see newsblog 1635) has not only raised a firestorm in the press but resulted in Colombian and Costa Rican police cooperating in trying to […]
by Rod Hughes
Does anyone remember the controversy late last year that hit the National Olympics Committee, with charges flying against its chairman, Jorge Nery Carvajal? Well, the committee’s special assembly used a new broom and swept him out, along with other top officials yesterday as the Pekin Olympics looms on […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s territorial waters, only a drop in the planet’s oceans, contain 6,778 species of marine life, or 3.5% of the species on the planet. This is pretty good, since the tiny area comprises only .16% of the all oceans’ surface area. This information is revealed in the […]
by Rod Hughes
Why women’s beach volleyball is not a major sport like soccer, basketball, American football and baseball, is a mystery to us. You have four toasted, athletic young women bouncing on the sand dressed in the legal minimum. Yet, few fans sit in the stands, mostly young men […]
by Rod Hughes
Puntarenas fans yesterday must have thought the soccer match with San Carlos lasted about an hour too long. It took half an hour for the “Bulls of the North.” as the San Carlos club is called, to realize it was up against an opponent without spirit or a […]
by Rod Hughes
Could it be that Costa Rica’s lawmakers and government departments are learning to live within their means? Such an unlooked-for miracle may account for the unmistakeable figures showing the national debt has been reduced in the past five years, to quote the daily La Nacion’s word, in a […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s reigning soccer champion, Saprissa, rudely hosted a decidedly outclassed Atlante club last night in the CONCACAF regional tournament for clubs. Saprissa had expected the visiting Mexican club to be highly motivated after tying tough a Toluca side last Sunday.
Instead, Saprissa walked […]
