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Wal-Mart Purchase Means Lower
Priced Milk Beginning Today
The purchase by the giant U.S.
retailer Wal-Mart of controlling
shares of Central American
Retail Holding Company (CARHCO),
which operates the Más x Menos,
Hipermás and Maxi Bodega
supermarkets in Costa Rica, can
be felt by consumers beginning
today.
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"See, those are the people who
voted for me. You know, they
gave me
Nobel prize last time I was
president, who knows
what they will give me this time
around", could be what
president-elect Oscar Arias (L)
was telling outgoing president
Abel Pacheco (R)at a meeting at
the Centro Nacional de Alta
Tecnología. [Foto: Juan Carlos
Rubí]
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Woman Paying Young Boys For Sex
In a reversal of roles for
police who accustomed to
detaining men for having sex
with young women, the Organismo
de Investigación Judicial (OIJ)
detained a "cuarentona" - forty
plus woman - for seducing young
boys to perform "“trabajitos del
sexo".
Electrical
Energy Costs More During January
And August
Been puzzled why your electrical
bill has been so high over the
last few months? The answer is
simple, during the months of
January through August,
electrical service costs some
20% more than during September
and December. The fact was a
reminded by the Autoridad
Reguladora de Servicios Públicos
(Aresep) which sets prices for
public prices and services.
Riteve
Will Take In Your Old Tires
Don't know what to do with that
used tire? Bring it to Riteve.
That's right, the vehicular
inspection company will accept
used tires at all of its 13
stations in an effort to reduce
the spread of Dengue fever. And
for free.
Costa Rica to Push Tourism,
Exports at World Cup
The government of Costa Rica
published plans on Thursday to
promote its tourism and exports
in Germany alongside the 2006
soccer World Cup, using a 500
square meters Costa Rica Arena
in Munich's Am Deutschen Museum,
among other venues.
Nicaragua, Panama Clinching FTA
Nicaragua and Panama are
resuming Friday in Managua
negotiations to seal a bilateral
Free Trade Agreement.
Panama
Presents FTT with Singapore
Panamanian Minister of Trade and
Industries (MICI) Alejandro
Ferrer presented a bill to the
Panamanian National Assembly
Thursday to adopt a free trade
treaty between Panama and
Singapore.
Central
America Tourism Officials in
Panama
Panama is hosting Friday the
66th Ordinary Meeting of the
Central American Tourism Council
(CTC) that gathers regional
ministers to outline strategies
on the issue.
Cuba
Completing Anti-polio Campaign
Coinciding with the World Health
Day, Cuba is immunizing from
Friday 524,000 children in the
second stage of the
anti-poliomyelitis vaccination
campaign.
MIGRATION-US:
Mexico
Still Wants "The Whole
Enchilada"
A
bipartisan immigration reform
agreement reached by the U.S.
Senate Thursday, which would
offer a path to citizenship for
as many as seven million
undocumented immigrants while
creating a guest worker
programme, met with mixed
reactions in Mexico.
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