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Monthly Archives: January, 2007

Fired Guatemalan Workers Burn Korean Textile Factory

GUATEMALA CITY – Workers fired from a South Korean-owned clothing plant in the Guatemalan capital looted and set fire to the facility in an...

Justice Demanded for Murdered Environmental Activists

Eleven environmental groups with millions of members worldwide are demanding action from Honduran President Manuel Zelaya following the alleged murder by state police of...

Former Dictator Eyes Congressional Bid

GUATEMALA CITY – Former military strongman Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, accused by a court in Spain of crimes against humanity, announced Jan. 17 that...

Dengue Rates Worry Guanacaste Residents

It started just before Christmas with a pulsing behind the eye sockets – like an icecream headache but worse. Then intense fever, dehydration, an...

Web Site Gathers Crime Stats in Guanacaste

“Which is worse in Costa Rica… the roads or the robberies?” So reads the first sentence on a new Web site dedicated to collecting...

Reader Survey Winners, Results Announced

The Tico Times thanks everyone who responded to our reader survey in late 2006. Winners of the five one-year print-edition subscriptions in Costa Rica...

Education Ministry Eliminates Mandatory Sixth-Grade Tests

Incoming sixth-graders getting ready to start school in February got a pleasant surprise this week: Public Education Minister Leonardo Garnier announced that starting this...

Officials Re-establish Anti-Terrorism Commission

The Costa Rican government this week re-established a commission to combat terrorism that had been around since 2004, according to a statement from Casa...

Caja Negotiates with Families Of Hospital Fire Victims

Officials with Costa Rica’s Social Security System (Caja) might offer as much as ¢100 million ($195,000) to the families of those who died in...

Fatal Semi-truck Accident Prompts Calls for Reform

After a family of four died Saturday when a semi-truck crumpled their Hyundai in a highway pile-up, transport officials are calling for tougher traffic...

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