Daily Archives: June 14, 2012

A strike by workers on the Limón docks has become the core around which other unhappy organizations are clustering. Workers of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de Administración Portuaria y Desarrollo Económica de la Vertiente Atlántica, a public agency, walked out … Continue reading →

The journalist professional organization has taken up the cause of the director of the newspaper  Semanario Universidad at the Universidad de Costa Rica. The director, Laura Martínez, has been fired by the new university rector, and the Colegio de Periodistas … Continue reading →

Airline companies will have to pay more at Juan Santamaría airport. The nation’s price regulating agency has approved a 6.72 percent increase in fees there. An increase was sought by the Consejo Técnico de Aviación Civil, which wanted hikes in … Continue reading →

Rice producers are meeting today with central government officials in hopes of getting more incentives for their operations. A spokesman for the producers said that rice farmers were going out of business and that many have their equipment for sale. … Continue reading →

The threatening clouds are passing away, according to the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional. The low pressure area that dominated the nations’ weather since late Saturday has given way to typical rainy season weather. San José saw light rain Wednesday afternoon but … Continue reading →

The highway from San José to Limón, Ruta 32, will be closed for at least two days as workers try to clear some 6,400 cubic meters (8,370 cubic yards) of dirt and rock that fell on the roadway early Wednesday. … Continue reading →

One way top lawyers can tell if a witness is lying is by comparing what is being said now with what was said in the past. Lies are a lot harder to remember than the facts. So when Paul Watson, … Continue reading →

The predictions of doom that surround the slight temperature change being experienced by the earth nearly always overlooks the benefits of a warmer planet. Vast stretches of the northern hemisphere have a summer too short for most food production. Russians … Continue reading →

Police officers encountered an abandoned stash of weapons Wednesday when they re-entered a property that they had cleared Tuesday. Found were three 9-millimeter automatics, two rifles, and two shotguns along with appropriate ammunition. The location was a place called La … Continue reading →