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Monthly Archives: June, 2008

Public Works Plans May Shift to High Gear

Troubled by shoddy roads and crumbling bridges, lawmakers have passed a bill to promote awarding public works projects to private companies. But some experts say...

‘Hawks’ Preying On Immigration Clients

Immigrants beware. A group of “gavilanes” may be hunting you outside the gates of the country’s Immigration headquarters in La Uruca. The odds are high...

ABCs of Auto Insurance

Most people have heard of “obligatory auto insurance,” known by its Spanish initials, SOA (seguro obligatorio automotor). It is not sold directly by the...

IMF jittery over Nicaragua inflation

The International Monetary Fund is nervous about Nicaragua. At a meeting Tuesday in Managua, IMF representative Luis Cubeddu expressed the financial body's concern over inflation...

Gas pains push Costa Rica government plans

Government officials warned Costa Ricans yesterday that the nation's oil bill by year's end could be double that seen in 2007, and they forecast...

Ticas vs. Nicas in U-20 women’s soccer

Costa Rican women's youth soccer team faces Nicaragua today after a strong debut Tuesday in Puebla, Mexico, in the qualifiers to see who will...

Frustrated young lawmaker no longer part of the PAC

Lawmaker Andrea Morales has left the Citizen Action Party (PAC), calling her colleagues intolerant, inflexible and dogmatic. Party members pressured Morales to leave because she...

U.S. Southern Command to build health clinic in Costa Rica

U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) announced it is constructing a health clinic in the Talamanca region of Costa Rica, near the Panama border. A 345-square-meter clinic...

Costa Rica ties Grenada 2-2

Costa Rica came back Saturday from two down to tie 2-2 against Grenada in a qualifier for the 2010 World Cup. Armando Alonso scored...

Indiana teacher drowns off Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast

Steve Hershberger, the language arts department chairman at FairfieldHigh School in Goshen, Indiana, drowned last week while trying to rescue a struggling student in...

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