According to Nacion.com, there was a protest by 150 sanitation engineers (garbage men) protesting the 7% wage increase they will receive. They are asking 12%. Inflation/devaluation in Costa Rica runs about 15%. But it’s not my place to take sides in labor negotiations, so instead, let’s talk about garbage. I live on the fifth floor
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In my morning routine, I came across a letter to the editor of A.M. Costa Rica, January 21, 2010, that really got my blood flowing. An attorney named Jim Irwin seems to be upset that so much media (and human) attention is being paid to the situation in Haiti, and so little to the victims
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According to an article in the Jan. 19 edition of Diario Extra, the Sala IV court has ordered that the trains running between San Jose and Heredia try to keep the noise down. A woman in Heredia complained that the noise of the train horns was causing her severe physical and emotional problems. Having heard
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According to the best information I can find, and I admit it’s not official government stuff, New traffic laws and punishments are going to go into effect on March 1st of this year. I took a quick stab at trying to read the actual law on the MOPT site, but I am not up to
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Compared to other Central American countries, Costa Rica’s literacy rate of 94.9% is at the top of the list. (Nicaragua: 67.5%, Houduras: 80%, Guatamala: 69.1%, El Salvador: 80.2%, Panama: 91.9%) If you do a little reading about Costa Rica, you will probably come across references to Costa Rica’s ‘free and compulsory’ educational system. Like many
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A recent article in AM Costa Rica reports that Janina del Vecchio, minister of security in the Arias administration, recently made the case that crime in Costa Rica is going down, backing up her claims with statistical evidence showing a decrease in the number of murders and home invasions in the past year. Based on
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