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San José, Costa Rica -
Tuesday 15 February 2005 |
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Overbuilding of Commercial Space
Worries Experts
The financial
weekly newspaper El Financiero reports that the Gran Área
Metropolitana (GAM) - the San José Metropolitan Area - is at
capacity cannot sustain any new commercial development. The
"boom" of commercial development of the last three years has
left the market saturated.  more
Thieves Steal Telephone
Cables And Equipment
Thieves have gotten so
desperate to feed their habit and wreak havoc on society
that have no taken to stealing telephone cables. While they
are still attached to the posts and in use. more
Cellular Network Saturated On
Valentine's Day!
Cellular customers
yesterday morning were left scratching their heads as to why
their calls were not getting through. And the answer was
simple: Valentine's Day! more
The New Outsourcing Kid On The Block:
Costa Rica
The Costa Rican
outsourcing industry is preparing to step up its emerging IT
(Internet Techonology) expertise, as it builds on some
existing successful outsourcing contracts while struggling
with the agonies of moving rapidly out of third-world
country status. more
Dobbs Defeats Fernandez in Play-off
for the Costa Rica Open
Kyle Dobbs of
the USA completed a thrilling victory at the Costa Rica Open
to defeat Sebastian Fernandez in a sudden-death play-off at
the Cariari Country Club, San José. more
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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Check out the Grupo
Nación
elempleo.com
website
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Colombian,
Venezuelan presidents to discuss
diplomatic crisis
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
and his Colombian counterpart
Alvaro Uribe will hold a meeting
on Tuesday in an effort to end a
diplomatic crisis triggered by
the disputed capture of a
Colombian rebel.
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Venezuela
declares state of sanitary alert
Sanitary authorities of
Venezuela declared a state of
sanitary alert on Monday to
prevent an epidemic outbreak in
the states affected by heavy
rains.
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Victims
calls for seizure of Pinochet's
assets
A
lawyer representing victims of
an operation carried out by
former dictator Augusto Pinochet
asked the Chilean government on
Monday to seize 7 million US
dollars worth of Pinochet's
property to pay civil damages.
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SOUTH AMERICA:
Rains
Claim At Least 80 Lives in Three
Countries
The unusually heavy rainfall
that has pounded Colombia,
Guyana and Venezuela over the
past few weeks has left more
than 80 dead, 100 missing,
100,000 families homeless, wiped
out a number of bridges and
caused severe damages to roads
and highways and tens of
thousands of hectares of
farmland.
The rain was caused by
barometric depressions that
occurred outside of the normal
rainy season, which stretches
from May to October in this
northern portion of South
America.
The disaster came on the eve of
the Feb. 16 entry into effect of
the Kyoto Protocol, the global
convention on climate change.
”Mathematically it is impossible
to demonstrate that the current
atmospheric phenomena are a
product of climate change...but
it is obvious that the
environment is affected by
unsustainable meddling,” the
president of the Venezuelan
environmental organisation
Vitalis, Diego Díaz, told IPS.
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