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Monday 09
July 2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Online Banks Do Not
Offer Sufficient
Security on Money
Transfers
The problems that led to
customers bank accounts
being ransacked by
criminals using the
method of "phishing" is
made possible due to the
local banks low security
in allowing transfer of
funds from one account
to another.
Eight Digit
Telephone Numbers Around the Corner
If you weren't aware of
it take note because come March 20,
2008, all phones numbers in Costa Rica
will go from seven digits to eight.
Family Killed in Water
Accident
Five members of a family
were swept away by
torrential waters when
they were enjoying a
family day near the
riverbed of the Balsa
river in San Lorenzo de
San Ramón, Alajuela.
Public Employees Yet To
Know Their Salary
Increase
Public sector workers
traditionally get their
salary increase on July
1, the second of two
increases given to all
public employees each
year.
Pacific Poker hosts
Costa Rica WPS qualifier
With great surfing,
nightlife and a heavy
dose of the "pura vida"
Costa Rica is
internationally renowned
for, Jacó beach in Costa
Rica, a notorious hot
spot for travelers the
world over.
Workers Say
Pesticides Made Them
Sterile
The pesticide was
designed to kill worms
infesting the roots of
banana trees on Latin
American plantations.
But at least 5,000
agricultural workers
from Nicaragua, Costa
Rica, Guatemala,
Honduras and Panama have
filed five lawsuits in
this country claiming
they were left sterile
after being exposed in
the 1970s to the
pesticide known as DBCP.
Noriega's supporters
rallied by his possible
return to Panama
One paragraph hints of a
once passionate
friendship torn apart by
prison. It is too
intimate, she says, to
be reproduced in a
newspaper. The letter
ends with the words
''subliminal kisses.''
It is signed ``Mantonor.''
CARICOM for Single
Market
The Caribbean Community
(CARICOM) is on a road
toward a single economy
by 2015, and has several
early hurdles in
political work and
legislative changes.
Cuba, Russia renew
aviation alliance
Cuba and Russia renewed
their alliance with a
commitment to increase
cooperation in aviation
services and training,
according to Cuban media
reports Friday.
Colombia refuses to
create zone to hold
talks with FARC
The Colombian government
on Friday rejected
former President Andres
Pastrana's proposal to
create a zone to hold
talks with the rebel
Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Q&A:
Science Ignores AIDS in
Women, Says Nobel
Nominee
Science has yet to
provide rigorous studies
of how HIV/AIDS or the
impacts of
antiretroviral
medications affect
women's bodies in
particular, Argentine
activist Patricia Pérez,
nominated for the 2007
Nobel Peace Prize, told
Tierramérica.
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