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Take A Guess
This week the sell rate of the
Costa Rican colon to the US
Dollar will hit ¢500. Could be
tomorrow, could be later this
week or next. Take your guess,
buy sending us an email. The
first correct email will win a
shiny, commemorative ¢500
colones coin. Actually, it's
just a plain ¢500 coin we like to call it the "colooney".
Canadians know what we are
talking about.
Send your email here.
Bad Weather Stalls Search For
Missing Plan
Inclement weather in the
Caribbean yesterday forced
authorities to suspend the
search for the missing plane
that is presumed to have gone
down Sunday morning near the
Volcan Irazú.
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This NOAA satellite image taken
Monday, at 02:15 PM EST shows
scattered clouds in association
with a weak front extending from
the Virgin Islands westward
through the central Caribbean
Sea and then into Costa Rica.
The inclement weather has caused
more than 1.000 in the Limón,
Siquirres and Moin area to be
evacuate as the area readies for
the annual flloods. [Foto:
Weather Undergorund] |
Pothole
Protest Sunk
The cold and rain yesterday kept
many away from the "pothole"
protest organized by the
Movimiento Cívico Nacional (MCN)
who called on all citizens to
join them in front of the
offices of the Ministerio de
Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT)
in San José.
$100 Laptops Soon To Be A
Reality for Poor Children
Portable Computer For a us$100?
The director of the Fundación
Omar Dengo, Clotilde Fonseca,
announced yesterday that by the
end of this year or beginning of
2007, the us$100 computers will
be a reality.
Transit Police
Staying Tough
in Palmares
The Policía de Tránsito reports
that more than 1.000 drivers
have been pulled over and handed
a ¢26.000 colones (us$52.) fine
for speeding, not wearing
seatbelts, careless driving and
multitude of other driving
offences during the Palmares
festival.
Ladies, Let's Go Fishing!
LADIES, LET'S GO FISHING! has
announced its third annual Costa
Rica special event.
Nicaraguan Parliament
Deadlocked
The impasse marking the
beginning of 2006 Nicaraguan
congressional sessions will
extend at least another day,
with suspension of the election
of the board of the National
Assembly again on Monday.
Chile's president-elect
receives congratulations from
abroad
Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first
woman to be elected president,
received congratulations from
foreign governments promising
close relationships with Chile,
local media reported on Monday.
Venezuelan Med Students Go to
Cuba
President of Cuba Fidel Castro,
through a phone call with his
Venezuelan counterpart Hugo
Chavez, said greeted the first
group of students from that
country who will travel to the
island this week to study
medicine.
Colombia
dismantles 8 cocaine labs
Colombia has dismantled eight
cocaine laboratories run by the
Self Defense Forces of Colombia
(AUC), a right-wing rebel group,
the Security Administration
Department (DAS) said on Sunday.
AIDS-LATIN AMERICA:
Prejudice
and Ignorance, a Deadly Alliance
Prejudice and lack of
information about HIV/AIDS are
damaging to society and to
people with the disease,
creating obstacles to the
prevention and treatment of the
pandemic, agreed the
participants in a weekend
conference in Brasilia.
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