It's Back To School
Almost 1.000.000 students return
to classes today for the 2007
school year, both for private as
well as public schools, some
attending classes in in the
morning, while others will be in
the classroom in the afternoon
and a number at night.
Traffic jams are
becoming a
constant
nightmare for
drivers, with
buses and all
types of trucks
fighting for
room on the
small, crowded
streets. Traffic
on the La Uruca
to Heredia route
(above foto) can
become so
congested that
it can take up
to one hour to
make a trip that
normally would
take 10 minutes. |
ICE Promises End To
Cellular Reception
Problems
If you can believe the
promise, the Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) - the
state monopoly on
telecommunications - it
will better the service
to its cellular network,
mainly by assuming the
operations of the
Alcatel GSM network of
400.000 cellular lines.
Costa Rica Exporters
Enthusiastic About China Trade
Fair
China is a reality that cannot
be shunned, and that is why
Costa Rica's Chamber of
Exporters (Crecex) has created
the Pro-China project, Crecex
President Alvaro Aguilar said on
Tuesday.
Ex-ICE Official Faces Bribery
Charges in Alcatel Scandal
Hernán Bravo will be the first
former official of Costa Rica's
state power and telecom monopoly
- the Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) - to
face charges in relation to the
on-going ICE-Alcatel corruption
scandal.
Wanted Korean is NOT in
Costa Rica, Immigration
Director Says
The Director de
Migración, Mario Zamora,
said yesterday that the
presence of Seok Jung
Myung, the Korean
national wanted for more
than 10.000 violations,
is only a "rumour".
Sasso Resigns FIFA Post
saac Sasso Sasso of Costa Rica
has resigned his position on the
FIFA executive committee after
17 years, and will be replaced
by Rafael Sandoval of Guatemala,
CONCACAF announced Tuesday.
Nicaragua sends
peacekeepers to
Guatemala, Dominican
Republic
Nicaragua's legislature,
the National Assembly,
on Tuesday authorized
soldiers to take part in
peacekeeping operations
in Guatemala and the
Dominican Republic.
Military Useless in Salvador
Jails
The El Salvador Human Rights
Ombudswoman, Beatrice de
Carrillo, criticized the
disastrous decision to appoint
military officials to the penal
boards of El Salvador.
Cuba and Argentina Sign UN
Convention
Cuba and Argentina became part
on Tuesday of the 58 countries
that signed the UN Convention
against people of forced
disappearance, in a ceremony
held in the Quai d Orsay palace
of this capital.
Ecuador to sue Colombia
over herbicide spraying
Ecuador will take
Colombia to the
International Court at
The Hague and to the
Inter-American
Commission on Human
Rights in a bid to stop
Colombia spraying
herbicide along their
common border, Ecuador's
foreign minister said
Tuesday.
Honduras Restarts Dengue Fever
Fight
Operations for cleaning and
fumigation to prevent dengue
fever were restarted in Honduras
Monday, beginning with the city
of San Pedro Sula (175 miles
north of the capital) local
authorities informed.
BOLIVIA:
Protesters Demand - and
Get - Faster
Nationalisation
Pressure from protesters
in the Bolivian town of
Camiri forced the
government of Evo
Morales to accelerate
progress towards the
effective re-nationalisation
of the country's energy
resources, but at a cost
of 12 demonstrators
injured in clashes with
the security forces and
half a million dollars
caused by the cut-off of
fuel supplies to several
cities.
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