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Telecom Services To Increase 25%
If TLC Approved, Opposition Says
The referendum on the Tratado de
Libre Comercio (TLC) - free
trade agreement with the United
States - is still months away,
however, the campaign to sway
the vote has just begun.
Costa Ricans
take their
futbol (soccer)
seriously!
The streets of
downtown were
nearly empty
yesterday and
Saturday night.
Was it some kind
of holiday? No,
it was time for
the finals, as
the Saprisssa
and Heredia
square off
Saturday night
and Alajuela and
Puntarenas on
Sunday. Saprissa
will not meet
Alajuela in the
final on
Wednesday night
at 8:00pm at the
Morera Soto
stadium in
Alajuela. [Foto:
Uriel Rodríguez] |
Ticos With Good English, Study
Shows
More and more Costa Ricans are
looking at learning the English
language as a step to better
jobs in the future. And the
results of that effort are
already being felt as dozens of
service companies have already
set up shop in the country and
more to follow.
NASA To Set Up Base in Costa
Rica To Study Effects Of Global
Warming
The United States National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) has chosen
Costa Rica for its operations
research base on the stuyd on
the impact of tropical clouds on
global warming.
Trips Take Aim at High Health
Costs
If you're a multitasker who
inexplicably desires to combine
knee-replacement surgery with a
family vacation to Singapore, or
perhaps twin a heart bypass with
some sun and beach in Costa
Rica, the May issue of Fortune
Small Business will entice as it
unveils the growing,
cost-cutting universe of medical
vacations.
Formula 1
Race Cars Closed Safe Driving
Week
Hundreds of Costa Ricans, the
majority young, were out to see
the Formula 1 (F-1) exhibition
in La Sabana yesterday as the
Próspero Fernández highway was
closed off from the east end of
the Sabana park to the Pavas
turn off.roups are making efforts to
enlist the help of Nicaragua to
protect whales.
Ortega Opens Program against
Hunger
Nicaraguan President Daniel
Ortega inaugurated the program
Hunger Zero, with a call to all
the Nicaraguans to fight to put
an end to poverty affecting70
percent of the population of
this Central American country.
Links of Posada Carriles with
Guatemala Denounced
The links and structures
established by terrorist Luis
Posada Carriles in Guatemala
years ago emerged to public
light in this capital, because
of the publishing of a US report
on his activities.
Colombian Films in Cannes
Festival
A total of seven Colombian films
will participate in the Cannes
Festival 60th edition from May
16 to May 27 in that city on the
French Mediterranean, sources
reported.
Venezuelan Government Moves
Toward Constitutional Reform
Venezuelan Information Minister
William Lara confirmed that the
government is making progress in
elaborating a constitutional
reform, which will be announced
for the people to discuss it.
Bolivia
Nationalizes, Italy
Respects
The Italian
government assured
Bolivia that it will
respect the results
of the
nationalization
process of the
National
Telecommunications
Company (ENTEL), a
branch of Telecom,
affirmed the
minister of the
presidency, Ramon
Quintana.
DEVELOPMENT:
Global Campaign
Calls for Tackling
the Roots of Poverty
The Global Call to
Action against
Poverty (GCAP) made
a commitment in
Uruguay Saturday to
extend their
campaign until 2015,
and to emphasise the
structural causes
that determine that
over one billion
people in the world
are living in
extreme poverty.
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