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Alajuela
Hospital Builder Director In
Preventive Detention
When President Abel Pacheco, on
live television a couple of
weeks ago spoke the words of
getting tough with those
responsible for the Alajuela
Hospital debacle, a hospital
that has been some 25 years in
making, that has so many
deficiencies and malfunctioning
medical equipment since it
opened last October, no one
really believed that anything
would be done about it.
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An
Interview with Fiscal General
Dall'Anese, Who Says He Is Only
Doing His Job
In
an interview in today's edition
of the Spanish language
newspaper, La Nación,
Fiscal General de la Republica,
Franciso Dall'Anese, talks about
the current situation at the
Fiscalía - the prosecutor's
office - since he took over one
year ago, the achievements and
the weaknesses of the
department, the change of
opinion in accepting a bodyguard
and some of the cases that his
office have been working on.
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Sales Abroad
Increased
The Promoter of Foreign Trade
(PROCOMER) reported
that Costa Rican exports
increased by 4.2 percent and
reached $502.4 million in
January, $20.2 million more than
in the same month last year, at
$482.2 million.
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Liberia Airport
Expands
With a $2.2 million
investment, Daniel Oduber
International Airport in
Liberia, Guanacaste, will expand
its bay for airplanes from four
to six commercial jets at a
time.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Colombia
Gearing Up to Do Its Bit
Colombia is set to begin
systematically measuring the
impact of climate change on its
remarkably diverse territory,
which ranges from Caribbean and
Pacific coastal regions to
snow-capped Andes mountains and
tropical Amazon rainforest, in
compliance with the Kyoto
Protocol.
A five-year Integral National
Adaptation Pilot Project (INAP),
to be designed this year and to
go into effect in early 2006,
will be ”the first climate
change adaptation project in the
world,” according to Colombian
officials.
”Everyone will be closely
watching our methodology,”
Minister of the Environment,
Housing and Territorial
Development Sandra Suárez told
IPS.
The project will involve
documenting trends and impacts
and evaluating the foreseeable
consequences of climate change,
with particular attention to the
highly vulnerable ecosystem of
the ”páramos” or high plateaus
and the Andes mountain glaciers.
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