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Monthly Archives: March, 2006

Education Ministry Examines Increasing School Violence

A recent incident in which 12-year-old Tatiana Jarquín was attacked with a knife by four fellow students at the Liceo Experimental Bilingüe, in La...

AIDS Victim Gets Her Wish

It wasn’t easy, but an 8-year-old Tica suffering from AIDS finally got the hug from Minnie Mouse she had dreamed about. Not only did...

Guanacaste Residents Demand Road Repairs

Frustrated by unfulfilled promises to fix their crumbling roads, residents of communities in the northwest province of Guanacaste last week blocked their pothole filled...

Two Pedestrian Bridges Under Construction

After approximately five years of planning and a ruling by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) in October 2003 that ordered...

Sand Fest Attracts World-Class Sculptors

PLAYAS DEL COCO – It’s unlikely that the dark sand of this beach on the northern Pacific coast of the province of Guanacaste had...

Paraíso Residents Complain about Sewage

Residents of Paraíso, in the eastern province of Cartago, may have lost their Eden to something worse than sin: sewage. For the past decade, neighbors...

Goodwill Flight Lands at Juan Santamaría Airport

Recreating the historic flight by pilot Theodore Gildred from San Diego, California, to Quito, Ecuador, in a Ryan Brougham plane dubbed “Ecuador” in 1931,...

Rainy Season Seems Just Around the Corner

It looks like sunny days are numbered for those living in Costa Rica – the National Meteorological Institute (IMN) has predicted that the rainy...

Arts Festival Brings Color to La Sabana

Twice as many people attended last week’s International Festival of the Arts than were expected, with approximately 400,000 people enjoying the street theater, free...

Japanese Embassy Funds Indigenous Schools

One glance at photographs of nine recently built schools in the Chirripó Indigenous Reserve doesn’t convey how improbable their presence truly is. What might...

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