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Responsible
corporate
citizen?
Daily
the side
entrance
of the
Banco
Uno
main
offices
located
in
Rohrmoser
is piled
up with
garbage,
blocking
the
sidewalk
and at
times
scattered
along
the
street.
Isn't
anyone
there
looking
out the
window?
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Costa Rica Hotels Rank
in the Top 25
Recently the magazine
Travel & Leisure
unveiled its ¨2007
World’s Best Awards.¨
They sent out a
questionnaire to their
subscribers and asked
them to rate hotels,
cities, cruises,
agencies, islands,
business hotels, and
more.
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Fiserv Announces Global Delivery
Centre in Costa Rica
Fiserv Global Services (FGS) ,
the offshoring arm of Fiserv,
Inc., a Fortune 500 company, and
one of the largest providers of
information technology services
to the financial services
industry worldwide, today
announced it has added a new
global delivery centre in its
network, in Costa Rica.
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A collection of our best fotos
of news events, people,
happenings in Costa Rica and
more...
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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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Monday 10 September
2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Countdown to TLC Referendum:
27
Days
Adolescent Mothers
To Receive Grant To Stay in School
With objective of avoid adolescent
mothers abandoning the classroom,
beginning next school term, some 500
young mothers will receive a monthly
grant of ¢50.000 colones (us$97.) to be
used to pay for child care while they
are in school.
Drug Trafficking
Continues Despite Police
Crackdown
Though authorities in
Costa Rica seem to be
hitting hard on the drug
trade, traffickers
appear undeterred, as
traffickers continue to
haul large quantities of
illegal drugs into and
through Costa Rica.
PAC Has Greatest
Amount of Lawyers Accredited To
Supervise TLC Vote
More than 28.000
attorneys were accredited by political
parties to supervise the referendum on
the Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) -
free trade agreement with the United
States - scheduled to be held October 7.
Inflation Slowing
Down
Consumer prices have kept on increasing,
but they have done so at a much slower
pace than before since last April.
Costa Rica Beats
Honduras On Penalty Kicks
Victor Nunez's penalty
kick turned out to be the winner as
Costa Rica beat Honduras Sunday in a
FIFA-sanctioned exhibition at Rentschler
Field.
Chinese Embassy
A three-story building
located in Rohrmoser,
west of San José, became
the launching pad that
the Government of the
People’s Republic of
China.
Nicaraguan Hurricane
Survivors Float For Days
at Sea
Nicaraguan villagers
spent four days in
shark-infested seas
clinging to driftwood or
smashed houses and boats
after Hurricane Felix
battered the Caribbean
coast, survivors said on
Saturday.
Panama's Noriega Stays
in Miami Jail
Panama's former military
ruler Manuel Noriega
remains in jail in the
United States, even
though his 17-year
sentence for drug
offences has ended.
Guatemalan president
hails general election
as world model after
voting
Guatemalan President
Oscar Berger said Sunday
that the nation's
general election will be
a model for the world,
after voting at the
Santa Teresita College
in the south of the
capital.
Venezuela Reform,
United Party Side by
Side
The forces supporting
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez are
advancing towards two
parallel fronts that
express political
upheaval in the country:
the creation of a united
party, and a
constitutional reform.
Pinochet victim marchers
clash with Chilean
police
Chilean marchers clashed
with police Sunday
during their annual
demonstration in memory
of victims of the
controversial former
ruler Gen. Augusto
Pinochet.s and
working to make Cuba a
"huge cultural plaza."
COLOMBIA:
Foster Families Help
Child Fighters Rejoin
Society
"I took in a 14-year-old
boy. I did it for
Colombia, for peace.
These children need
another chance, to be
able to live and grow up
as decent citizens,"
says Maria*, a
29-year-old mother of
three.
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