Constitutional Court Rules
Vehicular Restriction Fines
Valid; Drivers Must Pay
Drivers who have refused to pay
the ¢5.000 colones fine for not
respecting the downtown San José
vehicular restriction, will have
to do so now, the Constitutional
Court or Sala IV ruled.
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Christian Bolanos of Costa
Rica's Deportivo Saprissa kicks
the ball for the first goal
against Australia's Sydney FC in
the second half of the FIFA Club
World Championship Toyota Cup
Japan 2005, Monday. Final score:
Saprissa 1: Sidney FC 0. [Foto:AP/Junji
Kurokawa]
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Accident Leaves Three
Seriously Injured
Three people were seriously
injured yesterday when a Toyota
pick-up truck violently slammed
into a Toyota minivan over the
Rafael Iglesias bridge over the
Rio Grande just northwest of the
turn off to Grecia on the
Bernardo Soto (Interamerican)
highway.
ATM Thieves Make Off With ¢40
Million Colones
We know the holiday season is
here by the crowds on the
pedestrian boulevards and the
malls and the high volume of
vehicular traffic. The season is
also marked by the high number
of bank robberies.
Work on Airport Terminal To
Begin in January
For more than two years work on
the Juan Santamaría
International (San José) has
been stopped. However, come
January work will resume,
according to Alterra in their
response to a recent court
decision that ordered both the
government and Alterra Partners
to complete the work on the
terminal building.
Top Goal Scorer Says Team Can
Win Group A in World Cup
Paulo Wanchope, 29, the top goal
scorer of Costa Rica's national
soccer team, said in a statement
on Sunday that the team had a
good chance of going through
into the second round of the
2006 World Cup.
 
Cubans Ready to Resist
For the second consecutive day,
Cubans are participating in
military exercises designed to
face any external aggression.
Chile expected to hold
presidential runoff
The second vote count in Chile's
presidential election has
indicated a runoff between
socialist Michelle Bachelet and
rightist Sebastian Pinera,
according to the government
electoral service.
Colombian indigenous people
suffer "unseen tragedy": UN
The United Nations said on
Friday that Colombian indigenous
people are suffering an "unseen
tragedy "because of armed
conflicts in the country, with
about 19,000 of them displaced
and millions affected this year.
Mercosur
accepts Venezuela as full member
A one-day summit of the Common
Market of the South (Mercosur)
accepted here on Friday
Venezuela as a full member of
the South America's leading
trade bloc and agreed to set up
a regional parliament.
SOUTH
AMERICA:
Mercosur -
Overly Ambitious?
Many of the
hurdles facing South America's
Mercosur trade bloc in its
attempts to deepen the
integration process have to do
with the gap between its
ambitious aims and the
institutions and other
instruments that have been put
in place to achieve those goals.
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