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Aresep
Looking Into State
Refinery's High Profits
The Autoridad Reguladora
de los Servicios
Públicos (Aresep) -
regulator of public
prices and services -
announced yesterday that
it will be analyzing a
reduction in gasoline
prices due to the high
profits earned last year
by the state refinery,
theRefinadora
Costarricense de
Petróleo (Recope).
Salud Warns of Consumption
Of US Peanut Butter
Products
The Ministerio de Salud (Health ministry) has advised against the
consumption of the product "Salted Nut Roll Bars", a salted nuts
wrapped around chewy candy bar product from the United States.
Domino's Employees To Be
Paid
The some former employees of Domino's Pizza in Costa Rica that shut
its doors abruptly at the end of last month will finally be getting
paid. A group of at least 17 employees were paid last Friday,
according to the ministerio de Trabajo.
Fat Tuesday Brings $39 Fares
To Costa Rica at Frontier Airlines
Frontier Airlines is keeping one thing skinny
this Fat Tuesday. The Denver-based airline today announced a
three-day sale starting today, Feb. 23, 2009, that will get you to
more than 50 destinations across the United States, Mexico and Costa
Rica for as low as $39* each way.
Health Care Abroad Saves
Cash, Worries Critics
A trip to Costa Rica did wonders for Sheila Liner’s smile. The sun
and sightseeing had little to do with the improvements.
Costa Rica’s 2009
Sailfish Numbers
Continue to Impress
By now most people know
that Costa Rica is a
tourism mecca and home
to some of the best
sport fishing in this
half of the world. Many
fishermen know that
fishing in Costa Rica is
typically best between
December through April
when the dry season
weather coincides with
the peak fishing season.
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The
ministerio
de Salud
has
issued a
health
warning
against
the
consumption
of
peanut
butter
products
from the
US after
a
product
recall
was
made. As
of
Sunday,
Salud
officials
could
not find
any of
the
products
on Costa
Rican
store
shelves. |
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Daytime Theatre For only
¢500 Colones
For lovers the the
theatre, the Teatro
Nacional (National
Theatre) today begins
its program "teatro al
mediodía" (noon day
theatre) program with
the presentation of top
artists like pianist
Ramiro Ramírez and
mezzosoprano Raquel
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Panama - A
Tale Of Some White Elephants
Panama Star - When Dr Belisario Porras decided to build the San
Tomas hospital on Avenida Balboa, there were enough nay-sayers to
fill the National Theater to overflowing. But the president, who
finished his time in office in 1924, the year of its official
inauguration, persevered with his truly visionary project.
US
Congress Easing
Restrictions on Cuba
Travel
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Democrats controlling
Congress are loosening
restrictions on allowing
people of Cuban descent
to visit their relatives
on the island.
Indigenous Awa to Search for
FARC victims in Colombia
Bogota - Indigenous Awa people from
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia are ready to search for
bodies of victims allegedly killed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC), local media reported on Monday.
U.S. Renews
Hard Line on Venezuela
Washington - U.S. officials are scrambling to assert that the Obama
administration hasn't softened U.S. policy toward Venezuela, where
President Hugo Chávez recently won a controversial referendum
allowing him to run for office as many times as he wants.
Rio Wraps Up
Celebrity-Fueled Carnival Parades
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) — Rio de Janeiro was wrapping up its famed
Carnival parades in the early hours of Tuesday, after two days of
effervescent partying that attracted celebrity guests.
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COLOMBIA:
A Hundred-Year War on Drugs
BOGOTA - The anti-drug, anti-insurgent Plan Colombia is, paradoxically, at the heart of the tragedy involving Awa indigenous people who were murdered this month by the FARC guerrillas.
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Reno
Wind-Turbine Maker Expands to
Costa Rica
Reno-based wind turbine
manufacturer Mariah Power has
expanded onto the international
stage with its first Windspire
installation in Latin America.
ASI Power & Telemetry, a Mariah
Power dealer based in
northwestern Costa Rica, has
installed one of the company’s
propeller-free vertical axis
wind turbines, called a
Windspire, in a
biodiversity-educational park
near Costa Rica’s capital, San
Jose.
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"How
to
Make
Coffee
A
Great
Cup
of
Coffee"
It is very simple to make a
great cup of coffee, you just
need to learn a couple a thing
to move your process from just
an average cup to great. Here
are some tips on how to make
coffee so that you will get the
most enjoyment out of your
gourmet coffee.
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Why ICE Is Stalling 3G
ICE, the Instituto Costarricense
de Electricidad and the only
provider of cellular service in
Costa Rica has been falling
behind in installing the next
generation of cellular network
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