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Costa Rica Pushes To Be Host Of
European- Central America Trade
Deal
President Oscar Arias wants
Costa Rica to be the home of the
first round of meetings of talks
for the beginning of a trade
deal agreement between Central
America and the European Union (EU).
The announcement of the location
will be made this weekend in
Vienna, Austria.
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The Volcá Arenal treated
visitors and residents
of the area to an
eruption at 10am
yesterday, which caused
a spectacular slide of
volcanic material on the
north side of the
volcano. The Arenal is
located in La Fortuna,
northwest of San José.
[Foto: Cortesía Ovsicori]
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U.S.
Pledges Strong Support for Costa
Rica
The United States values its
relationship with Costa Rica and
reaffirmed its strong support
for the country at the May 8
inauguration of President Oscar
Arias, according to U.S. first
lady Laura Bush.
ICE
Selects Lucent For Value-Added
Services
Lucent Technologies that the
Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) - the state
monopoly on telecommunications -
has awarded Lucent a contract to
deploy elements of Lucent's IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
service architecture and a
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
solution to offer next
generation voice and data
services.
Gasoline
Prices Up Saturday
You
have all of today and tomorrow
to fill your gas tank, because
come 12:01am Saturday, the price
of gasoline at the pumps will
jump drastically.
June
9th A National Holiday?
What Are Some of The Pressing
Problems Facing the New
Administration?
The
new government of Oscar Arias
has said it may declare June 9,
the day of the opening game of
the FIFA World Cup 2006 between
Costa Rica and Germany, a
national holiday.
Costa
Ricans Charged with Child
Trafficking
Costa Rica's Justice charged a
group of nationals with child
trafficking and illegal
association that traded in the
adoption of Guatemalan children
for us$42,000 dollars.
Nicaragua Edgy after Student
Threats
Nicaraguan university students
have stoked the prevailing
social tension Thursday by
announcing they will continue
protesting in support of
striking doctors and demand a
solution to the transport issue.
Nicaraguan Rightwing in Crisis
Forty-eight hours before the
close of registration of
election alliances, neither
threats from the US Embassy nor
big money have had the power to
unite Nicaragua's rightwing.
Guatemala Anti-FTA Vigil Grows
Several popular organizations
have joined the on-going vigil
in front of the Guatemalan
Constitutional Court, where a
bill against the free trade
agreement with the US is being
discussed Thursday.
Panama
Increases Cuba Flights
Panama´s Copa Airlines will make
seven more direct flights to
Cuba, Cuban Civil Aeronautics
Authority (AAP) announced
Wednesday.
Plans to
Enlarge Panama Canal Continues
Although the number of groups
opposed to the enlargement of
the Panama Canal continues to
increase, influential sectors of
society and the National
Government itself have stepped
up actions to defend the
project, which will be voted in
a referendum.
ENVIRONMENT-CUBA:
Sugar Mill
Poses Explosive Risk
One
of the main industrial sugar
refining complexes in the
province of Matanzas, in the
west of Cuba, has been blamed
for an underground build-up of
methane gas and other violations
of environmental law that are
putting thousands of families in
the area at risk.
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