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Wednesday 27 June 2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Commuter Train A
Success, Planning
Additional Runs To Meet
Demand
The Instituto
Costarricense de
Ferrocarriles (Incofer)
- the train authority -
says that its "tren
urbano" (commuter train)
has become so popular
with Costa Ricans that
it needs to add an
additional trip during
the afternoon hours.
MOPT Minister Promises
to Get Tough With
Corrupt Inspectors
The Ministerio de Obras
Públicas y Transportes (MOPT)
- ministry of public
works and transport -
announced yesterday that
it will investigate
fully the work of the
Departamento de
Inspección Vial y
Demoliciones, following
the report of payoffs to
one or more MOPT
officials regarding the
placement and
installation of
billboards along the
country's highways.
Man Sets Fire To Hotel
After Being Rejected By
Prostitute
Furious for having been
rejected by a
prostitute, a man only
known as "Machillo",
decided to set fire to
the mattress in his
hotel room that engulfed
and destroyed the entire
downtown building known
as El Campesino hotel.
Electricity Price Hike
Approved
It's time to loosen the
purse strings a bit, as
electrical rates are on
the way up, following
the approval by the
Autoridad Reguladora de
Serivicios Públicos (ARESEP).
NOAA
Scientists To Search
Tropical Skies For
Answers on Climate
Change
Scientists from NOAA’s
Earth System Research
Lab will be among 400
researchers in Costa
Rica this summer to
probe one of the most
complex and least
observed regions of
Earth’s atmosphere
during the rainy season.
Costa Rica Partnership
to Train Hispanic
Ministers
A partnership with a
university in Costa Rica
to train Hispanic United
Methodist pastors in the
United States addresses
a critical new building
block in efforts to
develop educated leaders
for The United Methodist
Church.
Nicaragua May Strip
Bolaños Immunity
The judge in charge of
investigating an
accusation of immigrant
trafficking against
former Migration
Director Fausto
Carcabelos requested
Tuesday the removal of
parliamentary immunity
for former President
Enrique Bolaños to be
able judge him for
covering up.
Poisoned Panama Blames
Health Head
Most Panamanians want
President Martin
Torrijos to demand
resignation of Health
Minister Camillo Alleyne
due to the crisis caused
by the massive poisoning
with an industrial and
toxic substance, survey
data revealed Tuesday.
Panama to become FAO's
regional headquarters in
Central America
Panama City will be the
Central American
headquarters of the Food
and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations (FAO),
Panamanian Minister of
Agriculture and
Livestock Development
Guillermo Salazar told
media on Tuesday.
Cheap Shots in
Guatemalan Election
Some candidates to the
Guatemalan Presidency in
the September 2007
elections violate ethics
when they confront
against each other,
electoral observers
denounced here Tuesday.
Ecuador calls for
suspension of
Ecuadorian's death
sentence in U.S.
Ecuador on Tuesday
condemned the death
sentence handed down to
Ecuadorian citizen
Nelson Ivan Serrano
Saenz in the United
States for the murder of
four people.
OAS acknowledges
improvement in Dominican
prisons
The Organization of
American States (OAS)
said the Dominican
Republic has respected
"the dignity" of those
imprisoned with its new
penitentiary model, the
local press reported on
Friday.
ARGENTINA:
Poverty Bites Deeper in
the Northeast
"It just crushes
you: children here, aged eight or nine, are
sniffing glue to dull their hunger," says a
rural medical doctor in Corrientes, 1,000
kilometres north of the capital and the province
with the highest childhood poverty indicators in
Argentina.
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