Legislator Questions Possible
Arms Factory
Legislative deputy, Oscar López,
of the Partido Accesibilidad Sin
Exclusión (PASE), is questioning
the eventual establishment of an
arms manufacturing plant in
Costa Rica.
Cruise liners like the
one pictured above will
be a common sight at the
nation's ports as the
cruise ship season
opened yesterday. More
than 200 cruise ships
are expected to dock at
Limón (Caribbean coast)
and Puntarenas (Pacific
coast) for the 2006-2007
season. |
Limón Still In Conflict Though
Docks Are Operational
While the workers of the unta de
Administración Portuaria y de
Desarrollo Económico de la
Vertiente Atlántica (Japdeva)
continue on a work to rule, the
loading and unloading of ships
at the ports of Limón and Moín
seen continue at a normal pace.
Gasoline
Prices Drop At Midnight
Don't fill your cars tank today,
because at the stroke of
midnight the latest decrease in
the price of gasoline takes
effect.
Riding out with the Costa Rica
cowboys
I was being followed by a man
riding an ox. It was a big ox,
complete with horns, but perhaps
more worrying was the fact that
he had a mobile phone in one
hand and a drink in the other.
U.S. Immigration
Nabs 2 Alleged Tico Rapists in
New Jersey
Federal immigration agents last
week arrested two international
fugitives living in New Jersey,
both wanted for rape in Costa
Rica.
American Defense Ministers in
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan President Enrique
Bolaños opened the seventh
Defense Ministerial Conference
of the Americas in Managua on
Monday, amid strong security
measures due to attendance of
Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld.
Panama Bank Boosts Assets
Panama's International Banking
Center (CBI) raised its assets
to us$6.8 billion dollars, an
additional us$11.3 percent
compared to similar period last
year.
Central America Looks at
Violence, Integration
The extraordinary summit of the
Heads of State and Government of
the Central American Integration
System (SICA) is opening Tuesday
in Francisco Morazan, 30
kilometers north of Tegucigalpa,
focusing on regional
delinquency.
Cubans Recall Creation of Party
Cubans recall Tuesday the
creation of the Cuban Communist
Party (PCC) s Central Committee
41 years ago in a ceremony
marked by a reading of Commander
Ernesto Che Guevara s farewell
letter.
Chile Socialists:
Venezuela in UN
President of the
Socialist Party (PS)
of Chile Camilo
Escalona, called
upon President
Michelle Bachelet on
Tuesday to vote for
Venezuelan candidacy
to the United
Nations Security
Council, in the name
of regional
integration.
COLOMBIA:
International
Mission Hears
Indigenous Cry for
Help
Indigenous people's
organisations in
Colombia presented
an international
mission with a
document protesting
human rights
violations and
urging that they be
supported as an
especially
vulnerable group in
the armed conflict
that has been going
on for over four
decades.
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