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12
Days to the Presidential
Elections!
Take A Guess - And the winner
is? Steve
Fargo.
This morning the Banco Central
de Costa Rica posted the sell
rate for the Colon agains the
U.S. Dollar at ˘500.02. Steve
Fargo was the first to submit
today's date and winner of the
shining brand new "Colooney".
Steve, keep an eye on your mail
box!
The
guess list!
At Last, Potholes To Be Filled
In, Outgoing President Announces
Yesterday, the official
government newspaper, La Gaceta,
published the details of 22
contracts aimed are repairing
4.500 kilometres of the national
road system over the next three
years. Seven contractors were
awarded the work, but will not
begin until March.
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A girl cheers for presidential
candidate of the Movimiento
Libertatio (ML) party Otto
Guevara during a campaign
caravan in the poor neighborhood
of Tirrases in San José. Guevara
was in third place in the polls
with approximately 15% of the
intended vote in the
presidential elections to be
held on Feb. 5, 2006.
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No Cellular Telephones in
Voting Booth Permitted, TSE Says
Voters who are intent on
carrying their cellular
telephones everywhere will find
a surprise on February 5, as the
Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE)
has decided that cellular phones
will not be permitted in the
voting booth.
Rubber
Boots May Have Been Cause of
Drowning
Cruz Roja (Red Cross) rescue
experts theorize that the rubber
boot German national, Kai
Karpensky, could have played a
factor in his drowning. Dive
experts recovered the body
yesterday after drowning on
Sunday in waterfalls of the
Savegre river.
Study Shows Only Six Nations
Achieved Environmental Goals
A pilot, nation-by-nation study
of environmental performance
shows that just six nations -
led by New Zealand, followed by
five from northern Europe - have
achieved 85 percent success in
meeting a set of critical
environmental goals ranging from
clean drinking water and low
ozone levels to sustainable
fisheries and low greenhouse-gas
emissions.
Drugs Penetrate Honduran
Police
A probe by the Honduran
anti-Drug Division (DLN) has
shown the police in that Central
American nation are plagued with
drug trafficking.
Honduran Catholics Slam Neolibs
The Catholic Church said in this
capital that the neoliberal
economic model developed in this
country has only privileged
minorities and impoverished over
80 percent of seven million
Honduras.
Cuba Donation to Bolivian
Hospital
Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage
visited this city´s Children´s
Hospital to officially donate
medical equipment to the
center´s intensive care room.
WSF Opens in Venezuela
The 6th World Social Forum (WSF)
opens Tuesday in Caracas with a
march along its main streets,
packing together peace
activists, intellectuals and
representatives from indigenous
movements and civilian
organizations.
Fidel
Castro: US Gov´t Insults Cuban
Sovereingty
Cuba will never accept insults
to her dignity and sovereignty,
and the US president George W.
Bush knows it very well, Fidel
Castro told Tuesday a huge rally
in Havana.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM:
Indigenous
People Demand More Central Role
Indigenous leaders from Latin
America are overjoyed at the
inauguration of Aymara Indian
Evo Morales as Bolivia's new
president, which they are
celebrating as a victory of
their own. They are now hoping
that the achievement will help
catapult them into a more
central role at the sixth World
Social Forum (WSF), which opens
Tuesday in Venezuela.
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