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Sunday 09 February 2003
Back to School Tomorrow!
Almost 943 thousand students are
back to school this Monday for the 2003 school year.
The official inauguration will be in the school Dr. Fernando Guzmán Mata
in Cartago. At the ceremony, the education authorities will hand out 49
scholarships and 450 scholastic bonds and school supply provisions.
The 2003 school year will end the 13th of
December, which this year is comprised of 205 days.
The education authorities assure that all this
ready to begin the classes Monday, although there still some curriculums to be
defined, after the government struggled these last few weeks to find the funding
for the additional school days up from 174 in the past.
Cheaper AIDS drugs
The Central American nations achieved a historical agreement with five
international pharmaceutical corporations to lower - by 55 percent on the
average - the prices of 14 drugs used in the treatment of AIDS patients.
In a meeting held in Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and the host country reached the reduction after talks with
representatives of E. Hoffman-La Roche, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Merck Sharpe &
Dome, Glaxo Smith Kline, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.
According to official sources, the region has 16,000 AIDS patients and 180,000
HIV carriers. They added that the treatment of each patient costs $2,800 a year,
but that amount will be lowered to $1,035 to $1,454 thanks to the agreement.
Costa Rican in International Court
Jurist and former Vice-President of Costa Rica Elizabeth Odio was appointed as
judge to the 18-member International Court of Penal Justice, the world's top
institution to try war crimes, genocide, and offenses against mankind.
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Nations in New York, 60 countries -of 83 voting- supported Odio. After her
appointment, Odio stated gratitude and reasserted her commitment to the
cause of human rights and international humanitarian law. She won in spite
of the fact that Costa Rica as a state did not promote her; it was the
President of Panama, Mireya Moscoso, who proposed her as a
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Last August, President Abel Pacheco had denied
support to Odio, claiming that she had not done a good job as Minister of the
Environment in the 1998-2002 administration and that the candidacy would cost
the nation some $10 million -an expense that did not actually exist. President
Pacheco's position ran against the will of a majority of Costa Ricans, including
politicians from all parties, who have warmly welcomed the appointment, and who
appreciate Panama's gesture of supporting her.
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The
Week in Review: 03 - 08 February 2003
From
the Daily News! |
Police charge 3 in
Martin murder
The lawyer for a Topeka woman whose daughter,
Shannon Martin, was killed in Golfito, almost two years ago said three suspects
have been charged with murder and a trial is imminent. Saturday
08 Feb ·
Nazi hunter calls on Estonia, Venezuela to
take action against alleged Nazi
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Estonia and Venezuela Friday
to act swiftly against an alleged Nazi war criminal barred from traveling to
Costa Rica.
Saturday
08 Feb ·
Fernandez wins Costa Rica Open
Sebastian Fernandez is the new champion of
the Costa Rica Open, but he was hardly overjoyed.
Saturday
08 Feb ·
In the last week, eight minors died violently
The authorities maintain that it is not a
case of isolated facts and worries them lack of attention on the part of the
adults. It is now at 8, the count of small children that have found the death in
violent form, in the last week, while they played or while they were
in their houses. Friday 07
Feb ·
Support for Pacheco goes down
Costa Ricans are more stern now when
evaluating the performance of President Abel Pacheco and his ministers, but they
are still benevolent with the image of the chief executive, according to the
most recent poll by Unimer for the daily La Nacion. Friday
07 Feb ·
Police authorities making progress in the murder of a girl the previous week in
Tres Rios
One week after the
murder, police show much optimism of the possibility in solving the murder of
Emma Elizabeth Góngora Jaime. Sub. director of the OIJ, Gerald Lázcarez,
declared that the investigation is going very well, and that they have important
leads to the perpetrators of the homicide, although he preferred not to give
details. Thursday
06 Feb ·
2 Year Old Girl Found Drowned
The community of Encanto, in Cariari is shocked by the death of Sheidy Guevara
Hernandez of 2 years of age. The body was found shortly before 11 in the morning
Tuesday in the Palacios river, 500 meters from her house. Wednesday
05 Feb ·
Young Man Suspected of Raping 9 Year Old
The family Barquero Cascante lives days of tension
since one on its members, Alexánder, 20 years of age, began to be investigated
by the office of the public prosecutor and the Organism of Judicial
Investigation, OIJ. Wednesday
05 Feb ·
Alleged Nazi War Criminal
Sought in Costa Rica
Nazi hunters Tuesday praised
Poland's decision to open new war crimes investigations and expressed hope they
would at last bring to justice men suspected of the mass murder of Jews in World
War II. Wednesday 05 Feb
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Can ICE fulfill directive so that its budget does
not grow more of 5,9%?
That is the pulse that will free unions, administration of the Costa Rican
Institute of Electricity, ICE, and government, in the negotiation table
during all the week, which were started this Monday. Tuesday
04 Feb ·
Gasoline will
rise ¢27 the liter
The conflict
in Iraq and Venezuela shot the petroleum barrel to $34.
Tuesday
04 Feb ·
University urges Costa Rica to find Martin´s
murderer
In a letter addressed to the president of
Costa Rica, Kansa University (KU) Chancellor Robert Hemenway asked that pressure
be applied to authorities so the murderer of former KU student Shannon Martin
can be brought to justice. Tuesday
04 Feb ·
In Villalobos We Trust!
Sunday afternoon a meeting of Enrique
Villalobos Camacho (the Brothers) was held at the Aurola Holiday Inn in downtown
San Jose, where about 400 of the 6,000 plus investors attended to hear speakers
of the UCCR, the organizer of the meeting, and José Miguel Villalobos Umaña,
former Justice Minister in the Pacheco administration, and no relation to
Enrique Villalobos.
Monday 03 Feb
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UCCR Plea for Money!
Following the general meeting held at the Aurola Holiday Inn in downtown San José,
those that were not investors were asked that they should not return to the
meeting hall after the short recess, as the following part of the meeting was
for investors only.
Monday 03 Feb
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