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Monthly Archives: June, 2008

Enviro Damage Totals $3.4M, Says MINAE

The environmental damage caused by two real estate development projects in the Central Pacific has been valued by the government at $3.4 million. The projects,...

Tico Olympian Field Now Totals 8 Athletes

Two more Costa Rican athletes qualified for the Summer Olympics in Beijing, expanding the Tico team to eight competitors. Swimmer Marianela Quesada, who will participate...

Milanés to Face Music

International fugitive Luis Milanés, a Cuban-American who disappeared from Costa Rica in 2002 with an estimated $200 million in investors’ money, was arrested last...

Tico Kids Stand Near the Head of Their Class

Costa Rican students outperform the large majority of their Latin American peers in reading and math, the United Nations reported last week. Only Cuban students...

Wal-Mart Lets Billfish Off the Hook

Corporate giant Wal-Mart, owners of Costa Rican supermarket chains Más x Menos and Hipermas, has stopped selling billfish, whose populations are declining. “It's the...

Santa Ana to Get Municipal Police Force

Thirty-five municipal police officers will soon be patrolling Santa Ana, west of San José. Backed up by 16 surveillance cameras strategically placed throughout the municipality,...

1 Km of Phone Cable Stolen In C. Pacific Community

Nearly a kilometer of fiber-optic copper phone cable was recently stolen from hanging wires around the central Pacific towns of Chires and Vista de...

Arias Appoints Socialist Envoy … Say What?

History professor Vladimir de la Cruz is an unlikely choice for ambassador. He ran against President Oscar Arias in the 2006 elections. A former member...

C. America Gets Storm Alert System

A new system of early forecasts for storms and bad weather, with alerts every 30  inutes, will be in operation this summer in Central...

Parrita Still Digging Itself Out from Alma

PARRITA – Nearly a month after record floods left this working-class town under four feet of water, many residents are still feeling the effects. Though...

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