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Alcohol Sales Will Not Be
Interrupted During Referendum
Come September 23, bars,
restaurants, supermarkets and
liquor stores will be able to
remain open and business as
usual when it comes to sales of
beer, wine and liquor, during
the referendum on the Tratado de
Libre Comercio (TLC) - free
trade agreement with the United
States - voting.
A Hourglass
Treefrog, Hyla
ebraccata, is
seen at La Selva
biological
station in
Sarapiqui.
Global warming
is the top
suspect for the
disappearance of
17 amphibian
species from
Costa Rican
jungles,
scientists said
earlier this
week, warning
monkey and
reptile
populations were
also plummeting.
About a third of
the 5,743 known
species of
frogs, toads and
other amphibians
are classified
as threatened,
according to the
Global Amphibian
Assessment
survey. |
Cuban Communist Party
Ask Ticos To Vote "No"
In Referendum
The official press of
the Partido Comunista de
Cuba (Cuban Communist
Party), Granma, made a
call on Wednesday of
this week to all Costa
Ricans to vote "no" on
the Tratado de Libre
Comercio (TLC) - free
trade agreement with the
United States.
Costa Rica Aims to Win
"Carbon Neutral" Nation
Race
Costa Rica is drawing up
plans to cut its net
greenhouse gas emissions
to zero before 2030, the
government said
Thursday, and aims to be
the first nation to
offset all its carbon.
Minister Says Costa Rica Values Ties With Taiwan
Costa Rica has never considered changing its
longstanding diplomatic relations with Taiwan,
Costa Rica's Acting Foreign Minister Edgar
Ugalde Alvarez said on Wednesday during an
interview with the Central News Agency (CNA).
All
Bets Off As BETonSPORTS Goes Bust
Online gambling group BETonSPORTS (BoS) is
finally going out of business. The move comes
after it pleaded guilty in a US court to
racketeering - the US government has been
battling to shut down online gaming sites.
Cuban Ophthalmologists Work in Nicaragua
Cuban ophthalmologists have performed 900
cataract and pterygium surgeries in less than 15
work days in Nicaragua, where the physicians
from the Caribbean Island have won the people's
love and affection.
UN
Warns on Central America Drugs, Crime
The executive director of the UN Office against
Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, said that
drugs and violence threaten to paralyze the
economic development of Central America.
Honduras on Carpet for New IMF Debts
The Honduran PN (National Party) took the
government to task Wednesday for intending to
sign a new agreement with the International
Monetary Fund following the recovery delays of
the National Electric Energy Company ENEE.
Salvadorans: Look to Social Needs
A Technological University (UTEC) survey of
2,117 people released Thursday shows 70.48
percent of the Salvadorian population considers
the government overlooks important social
situations in the country.
Guatemalans Nix
Ex-Dictator in Vote
Guatemalan social
organizations
presented an appeal
against the decision
of Citizenship
Enrollment to accept
former dictator
Efrain Rios Montt as
candidate to deputy
in the next
elections.
MEXICO:
Activists Defending
Central American
Migrants Complain of
Harassment
Activists with the
Mexican
non-governmental
organisation Sin
Fronteras complained
that they are the
targets of
harassment and
intimidation by the
authorities in
Mexico because of
their work on behalf
of Central American
migrants who suffer
abuses of all kinds
in this country on
their way to the
United States.
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