THE latest in a string of legal actionsagainst Golfito Mayor Mauricio Alvaradohas resulted in the sentence of a month injail.The court has reduced the...
PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco onMonday filled most of the holes in hisCabinet following the wave of resignationsthat rocked his government during the pasttwo weeks.He named...
BISHOP José Francisco Ulloa, head ofthe Episcopal Conference, says the country’sCatholic Church is worried about thedeclining numbers of faithful Costa Ricans.“God is passing into...
SÁBALOS, Río San Juan – Seated onmetal folding chairs inside a plywood officeoverlooking the economically depressedtown of Sábalos, 12 mayoral candidates andtheir campaign bosses...
THE multinational Shell gasoline corporationsuspended the sale of fuel mixedwith additives in Costa Rica last Fridaypending a ruling on the legality of theproduct.Alejandro Félix,...
PUBLIC employees may be allowedto voluntarily divide their workweek overthe course of four days and take eitherMonday or Friday off, if the governmentadopts one...
TEGUCIGALPA– Honduran authoritiesannounced this week they will investigatethe extra-judicial killings of more than50 alleged gang members in 2004 – a waveof violence that rights...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – Atotal of 84 officers of Guatemala’sNational Civil Police were fired last weekfor their involvement in organized crime,according to Minister of...
PANAMA CITY (AFP) – Panama’santi-corruption prosecutor, Cecilia López,announced Tuesday that Panama is filingcharges of money laundering against formerNicaraguan President ArnoldoAlemán (1997-2002), his former taxdirector...
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) –Hundreds of Guatemalan campesinos,who last week occupied one of the country’smost important power plants forthree days, abandoned the plant lastThursday following...
