Presidential Count Continues;
Ballots Will Then Used for
Toilet Paper
Despite anything to the
contrary, the Tribunal Supremo
de Elecciones (TSE), has not
proclaimed a winner in Sunday's
presidential elections, and
according to Oscar Fonseca,
president of the TSE, there will
not be any until all the ballots
have been manually counted.
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Costa Rican Supreme Elections
Court Magistrate Luis Antonio
Sobrado frowns at a reporter
trying to get him to declare a
provisional winner in the
presidential race as a manual
vote count continues in San
José, Thursday. Costa Rican
electoral officials began
counting votes by hand Tuesday
in a laborious effort that could
take five weeks to determine the
winner of one of the country's
closest presidential races in
history. [AP Photo/Kent
Gilbert] |
Health
Says It May Have No Money to
Fight Dengue
The rainy season will be here
soon and so will the Dengue
season. This year, the
Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of
Health) says that the Ministerio
de Hacienda (Finance) have some
¢2 billion colones (us$3.9
million dollars) frozen that
would leave them with no money
to fight the disease.
La Niña
Could Bring More Rain and
Flooding This Year
The phenomena known as "la Niña"
could cause strong rain and
flooding of the Pacific coast
areas this "winter" season,
according to the Instituto
Meteorológico (IM), the
weatherman. The IM added that
the Caribbean will also be
hotter than normal.
Lending
Neighbour Gun Was Fatal
Lending your gun to a friend can
be fatal. That is exactly what
happened to 27 year old Gustavo
Alonos Granadas, who lent his
neigbour in Los Cuadros de
Purral, his gun yesterday
morning, who in turn shot
Granados in the head.
Fourth
Date of Costa Rica's Surf
Competition To Kick-Off Next
Copa Mango Contest
Antonio Pilurzu, head of Costa
Rica’s Federacion de Surf (FS) ,
announced today that the fourth
date of the 2005-06 Circuito
Nacional de Surf (CNS) will take
place this weekend, February 11
and 12 in Playa Dominical,
beginning at 7:00 a.m.
The
Billfish Foundation Presidential
Challenge Of Central America
Costa Rica - 2006
The Billfish Foundation
Presidential Challenge of
Central America begins the Tenth
Anniversary season of the
Presidential Challenge series in
Playa Carillo.
Puntarenas
Carnaval Begins
The Puntarenas 2006 Carnaval is
on.
El
Salvador Hospital Workers Strike
Hundreds of public health
workers began a strike on
Thursday to demand a wage raise
and medical supplies to
hospitals from the Salvadorian
government.
Fox
Allocates Public Resources to
Elections
Mexican opposition coalition "Por
el bien de todos" announced to
denounce President Vicente Fox
for using public resources in
support of the official
candidate for next elections in
July.
Bolivian Congress to Start
Project Discussion
The Bolivian Congress opens
discussions Friday on a crucial
government bill to call for a
constituent assembly, an
initiative that is already
facing resistance from the
rightwing and regional groups.
Mexico
Nettled after US Meddled
Granma newspaper sympathized
with Mexican protests this
Friday that the United States
has acted "with impunity and
absolute disrespect" towards
that government and people when
it expelled a Cuban delegation
from a hotel there.
Chavez
urges UK to return the Malvinas
(Falklands) to Argentina
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
on Thursday condemned Britain as
a violator of international law
and urged British Prime Minister
Tony Blair to return the
Malvinas Islands to Argentina.
DRUGS-COLOMBIA:
The
Difficult Rescue of La Macarena
The
manual eradication of coca leaf
in an operation launched by the
Colombian government on Jan. 19
is intended to save La Macarena
National Park, one of the
country's most important parks
for its rich biodiversity, but
environmental organisations say
this effort isn't enough.
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