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NO MORE POWER CUTS, ICE Promises
Following Friday's decision to
continue the rotating electrical
power cuts, the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) guaranteed yesterday that
there will not, repeat not, be
any more power outages.
Spectacular
traffic
accidents
continue to be
part of daily
life in Costa
Rica, as the mix
of alcohol and
speeding and
alcohol combine
for fatal
results. In the
latest, Susana
Arias Lara, 17
years of age,
died when she
ran into a post,
leave three
others injured
at the San Ramón
intersection on
the Bernardo
Soto (Inter
American)
highway . [Foto:
Graciela Solís] |
The Legislative Process For The
Referendum Begins Today
The heads of the political
parties and the president of the
Legislative Assembly, Francisco
Antonio Pacheco, are to meet to
today to discuss the plans for
the referendum and vote on the
government decree for a public
vote on the Tratado de Libre
Comercio (TLC) - free trade
agreement with the united
States, Central America and the
Dominican Republic.
Arias Invites Ortega To Costa
Rica
The Fundación Arias para la Paz
(Arias foundation for peace)
sent an invitation to
Nicaragua's president, Daniel
Ortega, to participate in the
20th anniversary of the signing
of the Acuerdos de Paz de
Esquipulas, Guatemala, that
brought peace to Central
America.
Porteadores Will Protest On Same
Day As Taxis
The May 15 taxi strike may
become a day of confrontation as
the porteadores will also use
that day for protest.f rain play a drumbeat on tin
roofs. They don’t call this the
rainy season for nothing.
Nicaragua-Iran Relations
Strengthened
Nicaragua and Iran reaffirmed
their will of strengthening
bilateral relations with the
three-day visit of Iran´s
Foreign Minister Manouchehr
Mottaki to this Central American
nation.
Statue of Jose Marti to Be Built
in Mexico
A sculpture of Cuban National
Hero Jose Marti will be built in
Mujeres Island, Mexican state of
Quintana Roo, said the municipal
government of the island Sunday.
Colombian authorities seize over
40 drug dealers' properties
Colombian authorities seized
more than 40 properties worth a
total of 16 million U.S. dollars
from drug traffickers, the
nation's Anti-Drug Police said
on Sunday.
Brazilian police seeks
Interpol's help to battle
gambling mafia
Brazil's Federal Police said on
Sunday that it will rely on the
Interpol's assistance to track
treasurers for the gambling
lords who bribed court judges.
Chile begins
searching for people
lost in earthquake
The Chilean army and
its Military Police
Special Operations
Group (GOPE) on
Sunday's morning
began searching for
the 10 people who
remain missing after
an earthquake in
Aysen, in the far
south of Chile,
Interior Ministry
reported.
HEALTH-LATIN
AMERICA:
Girls Living with
HIV Break the
Silence
"I feel happy when
I'm with my friends;
at those times, I
don't even remember
that I have the
infection," Keren,
an 11-year-old
Honduran girl living
with HIV, told IPS.
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