BETonSPORTS Preparing to Leave
Costa Rica
Employees and clerks of
BETonSPORTS complex in San José
are being told that tomorrow's
salary will be the last.
Severance will follow in 30-90
days.
Costa Rican men are the
largest user group of
Viagra in Central
America, according to
Pfizer, who reports
selling 148.500 cases of
the product in Costa
Rica in 2005, up 13%
over sales for the same
period in 2004. |
Limón Dock
Strike Getting Closer To Reality
The meeting lasted more than two
hours, as the dock workers union
and members of the Junta de
Administración Portuaria y de
Desarrollo Económico de la
Vertiente Atlántica (JAPDEVA),
however, no consensus was
reached to avoid a potential
strike at the Limón docks.
2006
Telephone Book Making Its Way To
You
With only 10 days behind
schedule, the Guías Telefónicas
del 2006 (2006 White Pages
Telephone Directory), began to
hit the streets of the Gran Área
Metropolitana (GAM) - San José.
Discover
Costa Rica as Part of Toyota
International Teacher Program
Toyota is expanding its
acclaimed Toyota International
Teacher Program with a fully
funded, 10-day study tour for 20
teachers to Costa Rica, March 8
- 20, 2007, Toyota Motor Sales
(TMS), U.S.A., Inc. announced
today.
Sabana Sur
To Get Four Lane Road, MOPT
Announces
Residents and those travelling
through the south side of the La
Sabana will soon get a relief,
as the Ministerio de Obras
Públicas y Transportes (MOPT)
will next week open tenders to
expand the two lane road to four
lanes.
Higher
Fuel Prices Today
If you didn't fill up yesterday,
today you will be paying ¢22
colones more for a litre of
super gasoline, ¢23 colones more
for regular and ¢03 colones more
for diesel, as at the stroke of
midnight, gasoline retailers
changed the prices at the pumps
following the publication of the
increase in the official
government publication, La
Gaceta.
"Take Me
To The Morgue", Man Then Dies On
Doorstep
A
taxi driver got an unusual
surprise yesterday when he
picked up a fare near the San
Joaquín de Flores cemetery. A 83
year old man identified only by
his last name, Vega, hailed the
taxi around 8am to take him to
the Medicatura Forense (Medical
Forensic Lab) - the morgue - in
Heredia, a 600 metre distance
from the cemetery.
Guatemala Natives Claim Rights
By demanding the their rights,
Guatemalan indigenous peoples
are commemorating Wednesday the
International Day the UN
established to help solving the
problems of that important
social sector.
Murders on Rise in El Salvador
In July the daily homicide
average in El Salvador reached
12, with 357 killed, police
statisticians reported
Wednesday.
Washington Financing Venezuela
Opposition
Using US government declassified
documents, US attorney Eva
Golinger said it was at very
least ó suspicious ó that the US
is funding Venezuelan opposition
groups, given Washington ó s
hostility to the President Hugo
Chavez administration.
Cuba Denounces US Pirate Airways
Cuba has exposed the US pirate
satellite signals broadcasting
to the Island in violation of
national and international law,
which call for the overthrow of
the Cuban Revolution and
annexation of the Island.
Argentina accuses
U.S. of intending to
scrap preferential
treatment
Argentine President
Nestor Kirchner on
Tuesday strongly
criticized
Washington for
intending to call
off the preferential
trade treatment to
some countries,
including Argentina,
saying the intention
is in retaliation
against those
countries.
CENTRAL AMERICA:
Gold Fever Strikes
Again
Untouched
landscapes,
attractive
concessions and weak
environmental
legislation are
driving
transnational mining
companies to seek
new options for
exploration and
exploitation of gold
in Central America.
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