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Monday 11 February 2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Back To School As School
Year Begins Today
Almost 1 million public
education students head
back to classes to today
as the 2008 school year
begins in every corner
of the country. Some of
the 962.000 students
will in their class this
morning, while others in
the afternoon and the
rest at night.
Guanacaste and Limón To
Get Closer
Imagine travelling from
Guanacaste to Limòn or
viceversa in under two
hours. That is the
promise made by the
minister of the
Ministerio de Obras
Públicas y Transportes (MOPT),
Karla González,
announcing the
construction of a 27
kilometre highway that
would connect San
Carlos, Upala and
Sarapiquí.
Recope Scraps Moín
Expantion, Looking At
Chinese Proposal For A
Refinery
The Refinadora
Costarricense de
Petróleo (Recope) -
state refinery - said it
has scrapped its project
to double the production
of the Moín refinery
because it believes it
will not be profitable.
Bilingual Job Fair To
Offer 3.000 New Jobs
Three thousand jobs are
being offered at the
fourth de "Feria
Bilingüe de empleo"
(bilingual job fair),
organized by the
Coalición Costarricense
de Iniciativas de
Desarrollo (Cinde).
Deforestation May Make
Humans More Vulnerable
To Infection
ScienceDaily - A new
study suggests that
socioeconomic factors
best explain patterns of
the infectious disease
American Cutaneous
Leishmaniasis (ACL) in
Costa Rica.
Macbook Air Coming
To Costa Rica
Good news for Apple
fans, the MacBook Air will soon be in
Costa Rica, according to Icon, Apple's
representative in Costa Rica.
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Panama: Union Leaders
Mistrust Wage Talks
Two main Panamanian
unions termed unfruitful
and doomed the
government-mediated
negotiations between
workers and managements
to define a new general
salary law.
Guatemala: National
Dialogue Starts this
Week
Rural development,
security and the
problems affecting the
indigenous peoples are
among the main topics
for the national
dialogue convoked by the
Guatemalan government
for Monday.
Cuban Vice President
Checks National Highway
Works
Cuban Vice President
Carlos Lage visited the
works of the National
Highway in the section
linking the provinces of
Guantanamo and Santiago
de Cuba in the eastern
tip of the island.
Colombian
Paramilitary Threaten Venezuela
Having emerged in the
context of an over 50-year old war,
paramilitarism crossed the borders of
Colombia and is currently a main worry
for Venezuelan authorities.
Venezuelans to Step up
Struggle for The Five
General Coordinator of
the Venezuela-Cuba
Solidarity Movement,
Carolina Contreras, said
on Sunday that this year
the group will intensify
the struggle for the
release of the five
Cuban anti-terrorist
fighters held in US
prisons.
RIGHTS-BRAZIL:
Pantanal Indians
Threatened by
Deforestation
The indigenous peoples
of the central-western
Brazilian state of Mato
Grosso do Sul do not
look like the tribes
portrayed in film,
decked out in colourful
clothing and adornments
and depending on their
natural surroundings to
survive in the Amazon
jungle.
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