Tico Killed By Marshals on Miami
Flight
Rigoberto Alpizar bolted down
the aisle of American Airlines
Flight 924 shortly after 2 p.m.
Wednesday in Miami International
airport.
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Chics waiting to be sold are
seen in a market near Heredia.
Costa Rican health officials
were meeting to discuss what
measures to take to assure that
bird flu does not effect Costa
Rica. [AP Photo/Kent Gilbert]
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New GSM Network Customers Can
Now Buy Insurance Against Theft
of Cellular Phone
Tired of getting your cellular
telephone stolen and having to
dish out money to replace it?
Well, the Instituto Nacional de
Seguros (INS) - the state
insurance company - has come to
the rescue with an insurance
policy for cellular telephone
theft.
A Postal Strike? Maybe, But Not
Until January.
Postal workers are threatening
to go on strike come January
because the say that their
employers, Correos de Costa
Rica, has failed to keep it
commitment given them in
September, the payment of a
series of back salaries that
were owed to them.
Exposure to Pornography At An
Early Age Can Lead to Problem,
Study Shows
An investigation by the Hospital
Naciónal de Niños (Childrens
Hospital) says that 59% of
adolescents admitted to viewing
pornography. The investigation
found that minors under the age
of 10 (6.7%) have been exposed
to porno, 59.8% between the ages
of 10 and 13 and 23.2% of those
between the ages of 14 and 18.
Calls For The Release of "The
Five" in Costa Rica
Dozens of people, including
various foreigners, demonstrated
outside the U.S. embassy in San
José for the release of the five
Cubans imprisoned in the United
States since 1998 for combating
terrorism.
Armoured
Car Company Robbed in Liberia By
Man Applying For Job
There is a new twist to
committing robberies. The case
was reported in Liberia (Guanacaste)
where a man, on the pretext of
applying for a job at the Tecno
Pro company, he and three others
robbed the firm of ¢150 million
colones (us$303.000).
 
Barbados Hosts Cuba-CARICOM
Summit
Dignitaries from Cuba and the
Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
will foster relations during the
2nd bilateral summit taking
place Thursday in this capital.
Zelaya Is Unofficial Honduran
President
The Honduran Electoral Supreme
Court (TSE) announced Liberal
Party candidate Manuel Zelaya as
winner of the November 27
presidential elections, although
official results are yet to be
released.
Anti-Terror Forum Slams US
Participants at the 1st National
Meeting against terrorism
sessioning in Panama strongly
condemned the US and its
President George W Bush, and
reenergized their solidarity
with Cuba.
Chavez-Vazquez Tour Uruguay
Presidents Tabare Vázquez
(Uruguay) and Hugo Chavez
(Venezuela) started their
working agenda Thursday in this
capital and visited the
underdeveloped department of
Canelones.
MERCOSUR
Parliament Approved
Foreign ministers of country
members of the Southern Common
Market (MERCOSUR) approved on
Wednesday the region"s
parliament consultative
protocol.
BRAZIL:
Looking
for Unlost Electoral Causes
Brazil's economic slowdown has
joined forces with the
corruption scandals to threaten
President Luiz Inácio Lula da
Silva's chances of re-election
in October 2006, leaving
progress in the fight against
social inequality as his only
electoral banner still waving.
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