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Sunday 28 October
2007, San José, Costa
Rica
More than 4.000 Children
With Dengue This Year
According to the Caja
Costarricense de Seguro
Social (CCSS), more than
4.000 minors under the
age of 14 have had
Dengue this year. The
CCSS broke the figures
down to 940 children
under the age of 4,
1.230 children between
the ages of 5 and 9, and
1.989 children between
10 and 14.
ICE Says New GSM
Lines Available in January; Customers
Can Get On Waiting List
Come January, the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE),
will be making available 300.000 new GSM
lines, however, one third of the lines
are already reserved and the rest will
be going fast as the Christmas season
approaches.
Cellular Phones Problems
Expected
The Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE), the
state monopoly on
telecommunications,
announced that beginning
Monday, October 29, and
through December 14,
calling by cellular
telephone will be more
difficult than usual.
"Yellow" Alert For The
Southern Zone
The Southern Zone is on
"yellow" alert as the
Comisión Nacional de
Emergencias (CNE) -
national emergency
commission - takes
preventive measures in
the cantones of Pérez
Zeledón, Corredores, Osa,
Golfito, Buenos Aires
and Coto Brus, in the
face of a new
atmospheric phenomenon
which are expected to
bring rain on the area.
Rains Back to Normal,
Sun Shines on San José
While the Government and
the Comisión Nacional de
Emergencias (CNE) -
national emergency
commission -
struggle to address the
most pressing needs of
thousands of Costa
Ricans affected by
floods that destroyed
their homes, and to
re-open damaged roads,
among other tasks, the
weather has gone back to
normal for this time of
the year, meaning
basically sunny mornings
and wet afternoons in
most of Costa Rica.
Graduation at 88
“Graduating was a debt I
had with myself. It is
never too late to attain
what ones plans for
life,” said Elena
Nascimento, 88, when
receiving her master’s
degree in Law at the
University of Costa
Rica.
U.S. to donate us$16
million to Central
America for anti-crime
efforts
The United States will
donate us$16 million
dollars to Central
American countries to
help the latter's fight
against drug trafficking
and organized crime,
according to reports
from Guatemala this
week.
Many Candidates in
Danger in Colombia
Jair Diaz is one of the
brave ones. After
leftist rebels gunned
down two city
councilmen, most other
politicians fled this
town in the shadow of
Colombia's
rebel-controlled
southern jungles.
96.49 Percent of Cubans
Voted
National Electoral
Commission president
Maria Esther Reus
informed that 8.1
million Cubans or 96.49
percent of those
registered, voted in
last Sunday elections of
their municipal
delegates.
Ecuador Boosts World
Cuba Solidarity
Representatives of 30
countries attending the
Fifth Meeting of
Solidarity with Cuba
will address in five
commissions ways to
brace support to the
island on the second day
of sessions.
Presidential elections
kick off in Argentina
Presidential and
congressional elections
kicked off in Argentina
on Sunday, with First
Lady Cristina Fernandez
de Kirchner as the most
hopeful winner.
TRADE: Venezuelan
Diamonds Under the
Microscope
TORONTO, (Tierramérica)
- Venezuela will have to
explain its policies on
mining and exporting
diamonds at the next
annual session of the
Kimberley Process, an
intergovernmental
initiative to halt the
use of the diamond
industry to finance
armed conflicts and
civil wars.
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