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"La
Fanatica Más Sexy" here!
Consumers Need Only Pay Current
Utility Bill, Aresep Says
As of yesterday, the public
institutions like the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE), Acueductos y
Alcantarillados (AyA),
Radiografica Costarricense SA (RACSA)
and the Compañía Nacional de
Fuerza y Luz (CNFL), cannot
charge customers for outstanding
bills, that is customers are
only required to pay the current
bill for services.
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Costa Rica's national
team runs through the
last workout of their
training camp on Playab
Conchal. The team is
expected to leave Costa
Rica today headed for
Germany in preparation
of the opening game
against the 2006 World
Cup host on June 9. |
Sharp
Increase In The Price of Chicken
Shoppers yesterday got a
shocking surprise and there was
no foul play involved: the price
of a kilo of chicken breast went
from ¢750 colones to ¢1.440
colones, a ¢690 colones
increase.
Unemployed
Man Decides To Collect Tibás
Garbage
The garbage that is piling up in
Tibás is paying off for
unemployed Juan José Castillo,
who like many of the residents
of Tibás are fed up city's
inability to collect the garbage
that is now in it's 22nd day.
Pacheco
Departed With Low Numbers
An
CID-Gallup
poll
taken days before Abel Pacheco
was to step down from the
presidency gave him poor
ratings. Only 23 per cent of
respondents rate the president’s
performance as good, down five
points since December.
Unlucky
Miller Left Out
The national soccer team today
heads for the 2006 World Cup in
Germany, but without defender
Roy Miller who was the unlucky
player as Costa Rica confirmed
their final 23-man squad for the
World Cup finals on Monday.
The
Pineapple: Best Served At Room
Temperature
Because most of the sugar
content in a pineapple is in the
bottom half of the fruit, the
best way to serve pineapple is
in long spears. That way, all
your guests receive some of the
very sweet and some of the not
as sweet.
Banana
Producer Signs Collective
Agreement with Workers
The private Costa Rican company
Bananera Atlántica (COBAL) has
decided to sign a collective
agreement (CA) with the union of
its workers.

Panama
Canal Extension Centers Debate
The Panama government is
intensifying its diplomatic
offensive to obtain foreign
support for the expansion of the
Panama Canal. However,
Panamanians remain divided on
the wisdom of the extension.
Death toll in Brazil's violence
rises to 81
Sao Paulo experienced its third
day of terror and traffic chaos
on Monday after street and
prison violence at the weekend,
with the official death toll
having reached 81.
27
nations meet in Peru to discuss
int'l migration
Ministers from 27 nations met in
Lima, Peru's capital, on Monday
to discuss methods of
regularizing international
migration, Peru's Foreign
Ministry said in a statement.
US, Mexico
agree on holistic solution to
immigration issue
Mexico and the United States
agreed that a holistic solution
was needed for the immigration
issue, Mexico's presidential
spokesman Ruben Aguilar
Valenzuela told media on Monday.

LATIN AMERICA-EU:
Transnational
Corporations Stand Condemned
The
governments of Argentina and
Bolivia joined civil society
organisations, in the Austrian
capital, to accuse European
companies of disregarding laws
on the environment, civil rights
and labour in their operations
in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
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