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"La
Fanatica Más Sexy" here!
Tibás
Garbage Declared An Emergency
The garbage situation - little
or no collection - in Tibás has
been going on for some time and
with the coming of the "rainy
season", fear or diseases like
Dengue and a possible epidemic
forced the hands of the Consejo
de Gobierno and the Ministerio
de Salud to declare and
emergency.
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Workers roll out the new
lawn at the World Cup
stadium in Munich for
the upcoming matches of
the 2006 Soccer World
Cup. The opening match
between host Germany and
Costa Rica will be
played at the arena on
June 9, 2006. Costa Rica
has declared a morning
off work for public
sector employees so that
they can watch the
opening game. [AP Photo/Diether
Endlicher] |
Mark It On Your Calendar: June 9
Is A Holiday Of Sorts!
The new government of Oscar
Arias decreed the public
employees can have the morning
of June 9, the morning of thed
ay of the opening 2006 World Cup
game between Costa Rica and
Germany, off so that people can
watch the game and then go to
work once the games are over.
Costa
Rica Farmers Win Suit vs. DuPont
A group of Costa Rican
fern growers received a
multimillion-dollar award
against DuPont Co. on Wednesday
for damages to their crops
caused by the fungicide Benlate.
Costa
Rica - Panama Border To Be
Defined
Travelling to the southern
border that divides Costa Rica
and Panama can be sometimes
confusing, for the border line
between the two countries is not
marked and defined. For that
reason, a group of Costa Rican
and Panamanian officials have
taken on the task of defining
the "real" border and properly
marking it.
Domestic Violence Ends in Death
of Woman and Five Year Old Child
A case of domestic violence left
a thirty year old woman and her
five year old child dead at the
hands of the man who the woman
had had a relationship with. The
tragedy occurred in the area
known as Sector seis in Los
Guidos de Desamaparados.
High
Gasoline Prices and Low Demand
For Service Hit Taxi Drivers
Where It Hurts Most, The
Pocketbook
Not happy about the recent and
soon to come gasoline prices
increase? Well, the "fuerza roja"
or the taxi drivers are one
group that feel it "stinks".
Costa Rica
Will Not Change The Clock
Definetively, Costa Rica will
not move to Daylight Savings
Time (DST)and stay in time
behind Nicaragua, Honduras and
Guatemala, in an effort to
reduce energy consumption.
Brazilian parliament worker
admits selling information to
gangsters
A sound engineer working for the
Brazilian chamber of deputies
admitted on Wednesday that he
had sold recordings of secret
testimonies to the First Capital
Command(PCC), a major organized
crime group in the state of Sao
Paulo.
Landslide in Colombia cuts off
gas supply
A landslide triggered by heavy
rains damaged a gas pipeline and
cut off gas supplies to more
than 756,000 families in
Colombia's capital city, a gas
company spokesman said on
Wednesday.
Brazilian president blames
violence on poor education
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva has blamed the
recent wave of violence, that
shook Sao Paulo state and left
at least 140 dead, on low
investment in schooling, local
media reported on Wednesday.
Int'l
conference ends in Peru with
promise to protect immigrants
An international conference on
immigration ended here Wednesday
with the signing of a
declaration, aimed at
strengthening protection of
immigrants' human rights, the
Peruvian foreign ministry said.
Chilean
peacekeepers' mission in Haiti
extended
The Chilean National Congress's
upper house on Wednesday agreed
to extend the country's troop
deployment in Haiti, as part of
the United Nations Stabilization
Mission (Minustah).
GUATEMALA:
Indigenous
Groups Sceptical about Social
Dialogue
Labour and
campesino organisations in
Guatemala are sceptical of
recent government calls for a
formal national dialogue to
address the social agenda set
out in the 1996 peace accords
that officially ended the
country's 36-year civil war.
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