Every morning I start my day by reading the two online English language news websites, AM Costa Rica (except weekends) and Inside Costa Rica. My Spanish is almost but not quite good enough to read La Nacion, so I stick to the English stuff. Well… this morning I came across an article that normally I
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It’s been more than 4 months since we started this blog, and we’ve put up nearly 300 posts on all kinds of topics, from Volcanoes to street vendors to residency procedures and more than I care to list. Nothing stays static and we’ll try to catch you up on a few things since the original
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On Thursday, March 25, 2010, President-elect Laura Chinchilla announced the creation of a new ministry, the Ministry of Social Welfare and Development. The stated aim of this new ministry is to sort out and reorganize the dozens of current programs designed to fight poverty. Poverty in Costa Rica? According to official statistics, Costa Rica has
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The taxi protest has been called off, which is good news if you plan to join the Thursday morning commute. The protesters had threatened to again block traffic as part of the ongoing conflict between the official taxis and the contract taxis. The official taxis want the contract taxis outlawed, the contract taxis want their
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Remember the first President Bush? I do, and I remember his campaign promise, shouted loudly, ‘NO NEW TAXES!’ which he broke, which certainly didn’t help him in the election he lost to Bill Clinton (with an assist from Ross Perot). I don’t know anybody who enjoys paying taxes. A few people regard them as a
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Once upon a time, in a land far away, I worked as a systems analyst and computer programmer. One of the things that troubled me was the fact that nobody, and I mean not one person, understood how the system worked, how it all fit together, or exactly what it was supposed to do. I
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