Beware Of Drunk Drivers At Wheel!
Though the Policía de
Tránsito (traffic
police) have called on
all citizens to drive
carefully and don't
drink and drive and
notwithstanding that the
full Tránsito force is
on duty, numerous
simultaneous spotchecks
and 24 hours patrols,
the highways and bi-ways
continue to spill blood.s.
Semana Santa in
Costa Rica! |
"Holy Water" in Guanacaste
The heavy rain that fell on
Guanacaste's northern zone
yesterday was a blessing to the
hundreds of firefighters,
volunteers and MINAE personnel,
to put out the forest forest
fire that consumed more than
2.000 hectares of the Parque
Nacional Guanacaste.
Arias
Blasts Catholic Church For Not
Allowing Use of The Condom
Costa Rican president, Oscar
Arias, yesterday reiterated his
stand against the Catholic
church's stand on the ban of the
use of condoms. Arias said that
"sooner or later" it has to give
in.
Arias Donates
us$2,000 to Quintuplets
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has donated
¢1 million
colones (us$2,000 dollars) to a
family that recently saw the
birth of quintuplets, said his
office in a statement on
Tuesday.
Agreement Reached to Promote
National Product Safety Testing
and Certification Standards
Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
and Instituto de Normas Tecnicas
de Costa Rica (INTECO) announced
today an agreement to promote
the use of UL Standards for
Safety in Costa Rica including
development of national
standards for product safety
testing and certification.
Co-Defendant in BetonSports Case
Likely to Remain in Costa Rica
Button Norm Steinberg, who once
ran BetonSports.com's second
most successful branding
concept, Millennium Sports, is
likely to remain in Costa Rica.
Spirit
Begins Operations in Costa Rica
Tomorrow
Spirit Airlines begins
operations in Costa Rica
tomorrow, with the first
passengers arriving from
Florida.
Panama, Nicaragua for Economic
Ties
Promotion of investments,
bilateral cooperation, and
signing of a free trade
agreement were the key issues
discussed by Panamanian and
Nicaraguan representatives here,
an official source informed
Tuesday.
Latin America Must Educate
People
Latin America is undergoing
favorable political moments,
however, there are still huge
debts in education of its
peoples at a time when
integration is of key importance
to develop a regional teaching
philosophy.
Americas Social Forum in
Guatemala
Guatemala was chosen as venue
for the 2008 Social Forum of the
Americas, in recognition of the
importance of its current
indigenous and people s
movement.
Peru Confident in Chile
Resisting Japanese Pressure over
Fujimori
Peruvian Justice Minister Maria
Zavala said on Tuesday that she
was confident that Chile would
resist pressure from the
Japanese government to prevent
the extradition of ex President
Alberto Fujimori to Lima.
Peruvian
president orders airstrike on
coca plants, airstrips
Peru's President Alan Garcia
said on Monday that Peru should
launch airstrikes and machine
gun attacks to demolish drug
manufacturing plants and
clandestine airstrips used by
drug traffickers.
SCI &
TECH.
Antarctica
to Costa Rica: mapping humpback
whale's amazing journey
It is one of the most remarkable
journeys by any creature on the
planet - and it is made by one
of the biggest creatures known
to science. Researchers have
shown that humpback whales
travelling between breeding
grounds off the west coast of
Central America and feeding
grounds off Antarctica clocked
up more than 8,000km on one leg
of their journey - the largest
recorded journey by any
individual mammal.
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