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Women Top Drug Sellers
Cartago appears, according to
a report by Channel 7 news, the leader for women who sell drugs. In the past
three operatives by the drug enformcement police, of the six people arrested
to the sale of illegal drugs, five were women.
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13 Year Old Victim of Gang Shooting
A 13 year old boy was the
victim of what appears a gang related shooting. The shooting occurred at
about 9:30pm Saturday night in Los Guidos de Desamaparados, south of San
José.
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Police Lay Murder Charges
Police in Costa Rica have
charged an 18-year-old with the murder of Saint John teacher Brad Whipple.
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11.215 Denied Entry to Costa Rica This Year
A recent report by
immigration officials says that in the first 39 days of this year, 11.215
Nicaraguans were denied entry to Costa Rica. Most tried to enter without a
passport or visas, as required by new immigration rules at the end of 2003.
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No Water? Make Sure Your Water Bill is Paid.
The AyA - Instituto
Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados - the national water and
sewage company has said that it will continue with it's program to cut
service to those who pay their water bills late. In the bast year the
insitute has recovered more than ¢2.000.000.000 colones in payments.
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US, Agricultural Nations Try To Jump-Start Free-Trade
Negotiation
The Cairns Group of 17 nations seeking an end to farm subsidies is meeting
here this week with the United States in a bid to revive stalled World Trade
Organization (WTO) negotiations.
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U.S. mulls political asylum for battered women
Immigration and human rights
groups are hoping that a legal brief they have submitted to U.S. Attorney
General John Ashcroft will persuade him to permit women who have suffered
severe domestic abuse in their homeland to receive political asylum in the
United States.
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