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The
price of
gasoline
has hit
such a
high
that we
can only
assume
that
this
family
in Santa
Ana was
forced
to live
under a
bridge
to
maintain
the gas
tank
filled.
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Guanacaste
consortium, Enercon ink turbine,
O&M deal
Consorcio JES, the consortium
behind a 49.5MW wind power
generation project in Costa
Rica's Guanacaste province, has
signed a turbine supply and
installation agreement with
German wind power company
Enercon.
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What is a Lunar Eclipse?
A lunar eclipse occurs
whenever the Moon passes
through some portion of
the Earth's shadow. This
can occur only when the
Sun, Earth, and Moon are
aligned exactly, or very
closely so, with the
Earth in the middle.
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A collection of our best fotos
of news events, people,
happenings in Costa Rica and
more...
click
here!
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People Words
Spanish like
English has different names for different people. By learning the words
below you will increase your vocabulary, comprehension and language fluency.
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Sunday 02 September
2007, San José, Costa
Rica
International Bank
To Decide On New Cellular Provider
To avoid past mistakes
in the purchasing of cellular telephone
lines, the Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE), has announced that
it will leave the financial decision of
which company will be granted the
contract to install 1.5 million lines of
the new cellular network to the Banco
Centroamericano de Integración Económica
(BCIE).
Poor Families in
Guanacaste To Receive
Housing Grant
51 poor families of the
community Santa Cecilia
de Santa Cruz,
Guanacaste, will soon
have a new home in the
coming months.
$250 Million Resort
Guacamaya Beach, in
Sardinal, Guanacaste,
will be home to
us$250-million Guacamaya
Development, which is to
be home for a
Ritz-Carlton 150-room
hotel, 800 houses, and a
220-slip marina, among
other facilities.
$1 Million Donation
The Ambassador from
South Korea Byoung-Lip
Cho, and the chairman of
the board of the
National Biodiversity
Institution (INBio in
Spanish) Rodrigo Gamez
launched a cooperation
in research program
linking their two
nations.
Tilarán Residents Upset
Over Lack of Repairs of
Giant Hole
The residents of Tilarán
are pretty upset that
the government has yet
to repaid the gigantic
hole that maintains
several communities
isolated.
Tourism Job Fair
To Be Held in Liberia
Looking for work? Want
to live and work at the beach? Then mark
your calendar for on September 7 and 8,
some 40 tourism companies will be
holding a job fair looking to fill 1.158
jobs in the tourism sector.
Honduran Dengue Fever
Crisis Worsens
The expansion of dengue
fever in Honduras is
reaching features of a
national crisis, since
almost 1,600 new cases
were registered last
week, most of them in
the capital.
Venezuela, Colombia Work
on Peace Agreement
Venezuela is today the
prospect core of a peace
agreement in Colombia,
after President Hugo
Chavez assumed the
responsibility of acting
as the facilitator of a
humanitarian agreement,
which is complicated but
promising.
Peru welcomes
Venezuela's attempt to
return to Andean
Community
Peruvian President Alan
Garcia on Saturday
welcomed Venezuela's
decision to consider
returning to the Andean
Community of Nations
(CAN).
Book by Fidel Castro
Published
The book "Dialogue of
Civilizations" by Cuban
President Fidel Castro
was presented in Cuba as
a privileged source of
the historical thought
of mankind and
protection of
environment.
BRAZIL:
'Quilombos' Fight
Exclusion
More than a century
after the abolition of
slavery, Brazil still
has small remnant "quilombos",
free settlements created
by fugitive African
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