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Boca San Carlos is part of the
2% of the Costa Rican population
- some 22.000 people - that live
their daily lives without
electrical power. The 75
families that make up the
community finally will get
electrical power by the end of
this month.
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Finally, There Will Be Light!
Boca San Carlos, is a place
where Costa Rica ends to the
north and the San Carlos rivers
flows into the San Juan river,
and incredible that to this day,
this place lives without
electricity. However, this
month, the residents of Boca San
Carlos will finally see light.
Revised Vehicle Inspection
Manual Ready
Finally, at the end of this
month the Consejo de Transporte
Público (CTP) will have ready
the long awaited revised manual
for vehicle inspections that
will be used by Riteve.
Liberia Airport To Get
Improvements
The Consejo Técnico de Aviación
Civil (CETAC) is getting ready
to sign a contract that will
improve conditions at the Daniel
Oduber airport in Liberia.
Export Goals
The Ministry of Foreign Trade
and the Foreign Commerce
Promoter (PROCOMER) challenged
Costa Rica to increase exports
to us$16 billion by the year 2015.
How do Hurricanes
Form?
A National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) team of
researchers and technicians are
currently in Costa Rica to
launch the largest atmospheric
study ever by the space agency
outside the United States.
LATIN AMERICA
Brazilian ruling party admits
receiving support from
controversial businessman
Brazil's ruling Workers Party
admitted Saturday that it
received financial support from
a businessmen who was under
investigation for allegedly
bankrolling a bribes-for-votes
scandal in the congress.
CARICOM Summit for Integration
and against Crime Begins
The 26th Summit of the Caribbean
Comunity opens in Castries St.
Lucia on Sunday with renewed
efforts to step up integration,
discuss failed sugar deal with
Europe and how to wipe out
increasing scourges such as
crime.
Cuban Breakthrough in Treatment
of Diabetic Ulcers
Citoprot-P, a new product
designed in Cuba to treat
diabetic ulcers, will be
introduced into treatment
regimens in hospital centers
throughout the country.
Colombia
and Venezuela Establish
High-Level Bilateral Commission
Colombian Foreign Minister
Carolina Barco and Venezuelan
Foreign Minister Alí Rodríguez
Araque have signed the Act of
San Carlos creating a High Level
Bi-national Commission to
evaluate bilateral ties.
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