Fiscal General Says More
Police Needed To Combat
Growing Crime
The increase in crime in
the country, like the
brutal home invasion of
former presidential
candidate, Ricardo
Toledo, Wednesday night,
has the Fiscalía washing
its hands and urging
more police in the
streets.
Costa Rican
coach Hernan
Medford gives
instructions to
his players
during a
practice session
in Santa Ana as
the Costa Rican
national soccer
team "la
seleccion"
readies to play
a friendly match
against New
Zealand on March
24. [Foto:Juan
Carlos Ulate |
Tránsito Ready For Semana
Santa
The ministra de Obras Públicas y
Transportes (MOPT), Karla
González, confirmed yesterday
that the Policía de Tránsito
(traffic police) are ready for
Semana Santa, a campaign that
will include more operatives
(road side checkpoints) and a
zero tolerance on drinking and
driving, in an effort to reduce
the mortality rate on the roads
due to traffic accidents.
Gasoline More Expensive Today
If you didn't fill you gas tank
last night, today super and
regular gasoline will cost you
more, following the publication
of last weeks price increase
approval in the official
government publication, La
Gaceta.
Costa Rica: New Pineapple
Exporter
Tholen – Spain, France and the
Netherlands will receive the
first four containers of
pineapples from the Costa Rican
this week from Sociedad
Agroturística Río Celeste.
Costa Rica discoveries: My
senior trip was life changing
Many schools have made it a
tradition to have senior trips.
Usually planned during the
junior year, they are meant as a
great motivator for the senior
year. Many hours of fundraising
goes into getting prepared or
getting that first job to save
toward the trip.
Quintuplets Born at Calderón
Guardia
Nancy Rodríguez Aguirre and
Gener Guzmán Coto, are the proud
parents of quintuplets born
yesterday at the Hospital
Calderón Guardia in San José.
Panamanian
20-ton drug haul belongs to
Mexican cartel
The 20 tons of cocaine seized in
Panamanian waters last Sunday
belonged to Mexico's Sinaloa
Cartel, local press quoted the
U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) as saying
Wednesday.
Cuba, Guatemala Sign Science
Accord
Cuba and Guatemala signed here a
scientific collaboration
agreement that foresees the
exchange of information and
experience in agriculture,
research of natural resources
and biotechnology.
Vote of No Confidence for
Guatemala Govt Minister
Guatemalan Government Minister
Carlos Vielmann is facing a vote
of no confidence due to the
security crisis in the country,
as ruled out by the Congress of
the Republic after a series of
questioning.
Bachelet Ends Tour in Panama
Chilean President Michelle
Bachelet begins today in Panama
the last stop of her five-day
Central American tour that
included Guatemala and Mexico..
Colombia appreciates U.S. offer
to witness talks with guerrillas
Colombia said Thursday it
appreciated a proposal by U.S.
lawmakers to join government
negotiations with a major
guerrilla group, hoping that the
U.S. gesture would encourage
guerrillas to enter the talks.
ECUADOR:
Pressure to Make Water a Public
Good
World Water
Day will be marked Thursday in
Ecuador by protests against the privatisation of water, the
construction of dams, and the
mining industry, and by demands
for the new constitution to
recognise access to water as a
basic human right. |
