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Monday 01 December
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
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Hospital Will File
Charges For Children
With Fireworks Burns
The Christmas holiday
tradition of fireworks
always comes with a high
price, children with
severe burns. To combat
this national problem,
the Hospital Nacional de
Niños (Children's
Hospital) is taking
action.
Costa Ricans Reject Open
Border With Nicaragua
Most people
in Costa Rica reject the
notion of opening the
border with Nicaragua in
order to allow for the
free traffic of citizens
between the two Central
American countries,
according to a poll by
CID-Gallup.
Arias Calls For Rich
Countries To Help Poor
Countries and For A
Gradual Disarmament
Costa Rican president,
Oscar Arias, in his
speech at the
International Conference
on Financing for
Development, being held
in Doha, Qatar, asked
rich countries to help
out the poorer countries
to face the shock of the
global financial crisis.
Costa Rica With 58
Political Parties
There are only 15 months
to go before Costa
Ricans vote on a new
president and already 58
parties have registered
with the Tribunal
Supremo de Elecciones
(TSE).
Boyeros Parade A Cold
And Wet One This Year
The traditional annual "boyeros"
parade took place in San
Jose yesterday amid rain
and poor attendance due
to a lack of promotion
by organizers.
Caja With New Digital
Communications System
The Caja Costarricense
de Seguro Social (CCSS)
- Social Security - has
announced a new
telephone number - 2539
0000 - and a new digital
telephone system to
attend to calls.
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LETTERS:
New Ley de Transito,
Bad Investment,
3G,
Shark Finning,
Time Out,
Proposed Immigration Bill,
Eradicating Slums |
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Georgia
Severs
Diplomatic Ties With
Nicaragua
Moscow - The foreign ministry
of Georgia on Saturday
announced to break off
diplomatic relations
with Nicaragua in
protest against its
recognition of the
independence of South
Ossetia and Abkhazia,
two breakaway Georgian
regions, the Caucasus
Press news agency said.
Guatemalan Children in
Organized Crime
Guatemala - Guatemalan
children and teenagers
between the ages of ten
and seventeen are being
recruited by drug
trafficking gangs and
other crime
organizations, according
to reports from
humanitarian
organizations, released
in Guatemala on Sunday.
Raining
Season In
Colombia Kills At Least
57
Bogota - The second raining
season in Colombia this
year has left at least
57 people dead and some
67,000 houses destroyed
since mid-September, the
director of Colombia's
Red Cross said Sunday.
Dengue Fever Expands in
Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo - The magnitude of
the dengue fever
expansion in the
Dominican Republic is
bigger than that
admitted by authorities,
and the number of
infected has increased
to nearly 5,000 Sunday.
MERCOSUR Officials
Debates Global Crisis
Montevideo - Agriculture
and cattle breeding
ministers from the
Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR)
will analyze in this
capital repercussions of
the global financial and
economic crisis in the
region, particularly on
those sectors.
DEVELOPMENT LATIN
AMERICA:
Solutions from Below
he global
financial crisis has not demoralised those
involved in community
projects throughout
Latin America and the
Caribbean who took part
in ECLAC’s fourth social
innovation fair, which
ended Friday in this
city in northwest
Colombia.
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29 November 2008 |
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