ICE Strike: Day 10
• Central Bank authorizes issue of bonds for $40 million
• Teacher's may go on strike tomorrow as well

Though the Central Bank authorized $40 Million of the $100 Million bond that ICE had requested, the strike continues, as union leaders and management are not satisfied with the decision.

Meanwhile, Pablo Cob, president of ICE is hard at work making his explanations to the government on the irregularity found in it's accounting, when the Central Bank alerted the government that it found 40.000 million colones difference in the documentation submitted by ICE to that institution. >more


When it rains, it pours

The last few weeks, mother nature has been playing with us. It gave us a taste of the rains to come, with regular afternoon rains/showers and then a few days of no rain, or at least in some parts while downpouring in others. But, yesterday, did it rain! >more

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Founder's Passion Is Helping Youths
Ken Kay was doing his best to look unruffled.
    
At the headquarters of World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools, in an office complex the same rusty red as the southern Utah hills, the phone rang incessantly Friday.
    
On the line were parents and reporters from across the country, clamoring for news about the confusing events taking place at the Academy at Dundee Ranch in Costa Rica. Calls also flooded in from the ranch, as staff sent garbled messages about the fate of director Narvin Lichfield and the status of the school. [full story]


Drop in fertility
In Costa Rica, women ages 15 to 45 gave birth to an average 2.1 children last year.  >more


Tropical studies
It all started with one idea, studying, researching, and rationally using the bio-diversity of the tropics. >more


Organic products
European consumers pay up to 30 percent more for Costa Rican organic products, while several nations are drafting legislation to promote the consumption of such goods. >more


Disease threatens people and palms 
Lethal Yellowing Disease (LYD) has ripped through the Caribbean coast of Central America, destroying the major species of coconut palm in its path. It is also wiping out the livelihood of the Garifuna people who populate the Caribbean coastal regions of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. LYD is a phytoplasma whose organism is thought to behave like a primitive virus. >more

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