Sexual Delinquents
Top OIJ's 10 Most Wanted
The Organismo de Investigacion Judicial (OIJ)
yesterday made an appeal for help in locating 10 of
the most wanted criminals in the country.
The majority are criminals who were convicted for
sexual crimes: aggravated rape and abuse of minors.
At the top of the list are: Anselmo (Rafael Alexis
Hidalgo Chinchilla) y Alfonso (Jesús Jovel Pérez
Calvo), sentenced to 12 and 10 years respectively in
1998.
The two, along with the other eight on the list,
have orders for their detention.
Click here for the names and fotos of the 10 most
wanted in Costa Rica.
The 10 are the most
wanted in a list of more than 100 criminals that the
OIJ is searching to capture. To help them in their
'manhunt' is the services of Interpol - the
International Police organization that has
operations in the country.
Police officials are asking that you call them
at 295-3255 or 295- 3311 if you have any
information that can help them. Jorge Rojas,
director of the OIJ, has assured complete
confidentiality of those who offer assistance.
"International
Roaming" Service is Now Working
As of
yesterday, ICE (Insitituto Costarricense de
Electricidad), the state owend telephone and
electric power monopoly, announced the new service
of "Automatic Roaming", as they call it.
The new service makes a cellular telephone activated
in Costa Rica available to to place and receive
calls in 16 other countries, as well as those users
of cellular service in the countries listed, can use
their cellular telephones in Costa Rica. The service
is available on both TDMA and GSM services.
The countries on ICE's list are:
TDMA:
Panama
U.S.
Israel
Mexico
Hong Kong
Puerto Rico
Colombia
Guatemala
Honduras
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Canada
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GSM:
Spain
U.S.
Chile
Mexico
Hong Kong
Dominican Republic
Israel
Guatemala
Honduras
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Belize |
For ICE subscribers,
it asks that, at least 24 hours before leaving Costa
Rica, subscribers visit ICE's offices to request the
service and pay a deposit of at least $150.
The costs of the calls made and/or received will
depend on the service they are connected. ICE has
contracts with service providers in those countries
that the subscriber can using the roaming service.
The international roaming service had been announced
months ago, but delays in getting all the contracts
with the respective countries signed, delayed the
availability of the service.
U.S. led push to ban human cloning falters
A United States-led drive for a broad global ban on all forms of human cloning - including research on stem cells - faltered on Thursday, as diplomats scrambled to avoid a messy battle over the issue.
At issue is a 2001 proposal, initially put forward by France and Germany, that the UN General Assembly's legal committee draft an international treaty banning human cloning.
Two years later, the proposal has divided the 191 -
nation assembly into two rival factions. A vote in the legal committee is expected around the middle of next week.
One group of more than 50 countries, led by the United States and Costa Rica and assembled with the help of US-based anti-abortion groups, has insisted on a treaty banning both the cloning of humans and 'therapeutic', or 'experimental', cloning, in which human embryos are cloned for medical research.
A second, smaller group - led by Belgium and including several European governments as well as Japan, Brazil and South Africa - is pushing for a narrower ban exempting therapeutic cloning.
This group, which also includes Singapore, argues that the top UN priority should be to quickly ban the cloning of humans, leaving it up to individual governments to decide whether - and if so, how - to regulate therapeutic cloning.
While the assembly's legal committee typically works by consensus, the US and Costa Rica initially vowed to push for a recorded vote on a resolution instructing the treaty's drafters to prepare a broad ban.
While their backers had superior numbers, the prospect of a head-to-head confrontation on the issue prompted a third group, led by the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), to emerge and draft a motion deferring the issue until 2005.
With the OIC's intervention, 'the dynamics have changed', said Philippines Ambassador Lauro Baja, who chairs the assembly's legal committee.
'The OIC has picked up considerable support from the sidelines. We have tried to impress on the hardliners that they may no longer have a majority,' Mr Baja said.
He said he had asked both sides to try to reach a compromise, or risk seeing the deferral motion approved.
'They could have a general, vague mandate, or no mandate at all, so drafters could start writing' without being bound from the start to a particular text, he said. -- Reuters
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