Government Intervenes in BetonSports Employee Situation
The more than 1.400 employees of BetonSports were promised payment when the company decided to close down operations in Costa Rica, following a board of directors decision as the president and other officials of BoS face legal problems in the U.S.

Iron-deficient Infants Have Lower Cognitive Scores
Costa Rican teens who were iron-deficient as infants continue to lag behind their peers in cognitive test scores, with a wider gap for children at lower socioeconomic levels, according to study results published in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Central Bank Planning ¢20.000 and ¢50.000 Notes
What happens to those colones notes that are just too worn out? The Banco Central de Costa Rica (BCCR) makes confetti out of them, using a powerful shredder that in minutes can turn hundreds of millions of colones notes into small pieces of worthless paper confetti.

"Gringo" Buys Talamanca Aqueduct
An unidentified "gringo" has purchased the Bribri aqueduct located in the first distict of Talamanca for a reported us& million dollars. The purchase was made from Fernando Chávez Altamarino who has owned the land that holds the aqueduct.

It "Pays" To Have Connections in High Places
From an office worker salary to a teacher salary in one day is what he wife of the vice-minister of Education, José Lino Rodríguez, received when she was promoted from an office worker to a professor, a position she never held, in just one day.