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Second Store Owner Fights Back
and Kills Assailant
For the second time in less that
two weeks, a shopkeeper decides
to fight back and kills his
assailant. Yesterday's incident
occurred in Alajuela, a block
south of the Central Market,
where 43 year old José Méndez
Ledezma was brushing his teeth
in the back of his jewellery
store as his 17 year old
employee, Kenneth, is left to
tend the store.
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Intel is one 68 national and
international companies taking
part in Expoempleo 2006 on until
Sunday at the San José Palacio.
The job fair brings together
companies and prospective
employees under one roof.
Click here for more.
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San José -
Caldera Highway Contract Signed,
But Will Road Be Finally Built
Here we go again, with another
attempt to complete the Caldera
- San José highway, a project
that has been in the planning
for almost 20 years and has been
jump started a number of times.
JBIC
Agrees to Lend us$127Milllion
for San José Sewerage Project
The Japan Bank for International
Cooperation (JBIC) has agreed to
lend us$127 million for a
sewerage project that will
benefit Costa Rica's capital San
José, the Costa Rican foreign
affairs ministry reported.
Cyber
Bookie Billionaire Faces Raid By
Costa Rican Police
What are the odds?
If anyone would know, it would
surely be Calvin Ayre.
Looking
For A Job in Costa Rica?
Expoempleo May Be Your Answer
The
third edition of Expoempleo is
ongoing at the San José Palacio,
running until Sunday, that is a
meeting point for the most
national and transnational
corporations an those wishing
explore work options.
Colombia captures submarine
suspected of hauling drug
Colombia's navy seized a
submarine that may have been
used by drug traffickers to haul
over 4 tons of cocaine for
transshipment to the United
States.
Venezuela denies U.S. charges on
its handling of drug problems
Venezuela has complained to UN
chief Kofi Annan about a United
States report which discredited
Venezuela's efforts in curbing
drug trafficking, local media
reported on Friday.
Argentina, U.S. to build nuclear
test monitoring station
The United States signed a deal
on Friday with Argentina to
build a station in the South
American country to monitor
underground nuclear tests,
Argentina's Foreign Ministry
said in a statement.
Bolivia, Chile agree to
strengthen bilaterial ties
Chile's president-elect Michelle
Bachelet and Bolivian President
Evo Morales pledged here on
Friday to forge stronger links
between their two countries.
Colombian
AUC rebels hand over last of
their weapons
The Self-Defense Forces of
Colombia (AUC), once Colombia's
largest rebel army with 27,000
soldiers, handed in the last of
their weapons on Friday,
completing a 2003 peace
agreement, local media reported.
ELECTIONS-COLOMBIA:
Paramilitaries Aggressively
Campaign for Votes
A
group of sons and daughters of
victims of the "dirty war" in
Colombia urged voters not to
vote in Sunday's legislative
elections for candidates on
lists that include alleged
members of paramilitary
militias, their accomplices or
their front men.
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