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Quepos On
"Yellow" Alert
For Heavy Rain
And Winds
The residents of
Quepos have
begun the
cleaning up of
their town after
a Tuesday night
storm with heavy
rains and winds
caused damage to
homes and
businesses on
Costa Rica's
Central Pacific
coast.
Autopistas Given
48 Hours For
Plan To Make San
José - Caldera
Safe Or Face
Closure Of The
Highway
Autopistas del
Sol, the
concessionare of
the San José -
Caldera has been
given 48 hours
to come up with
a remedial plan
to prevent more
landslides and
rock falls or
face the closure
of the highway.
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Salud Closes
Costa Rica's
Stem Cell Clinic
The government
of Laura
Chinchilla has
ordered Costa
Rica's largest
stem cell clinic
to stop offering
treatment,
saying there is
no proof that it
is effective,
Maria Luisa
Avila, Costa
Rica's ministra
de Salud (Health
Minister) said
on Wednesday.
Costa Rica Firm
On No Open Pit
Gold Mining
Costa Rica is
one three
Central American
countries that
have called a
halt to new open
pit mining
projects.
Fearing
environmental
and political
fallout from
mining, Costa
Rican president,
Laura
Chinchilla,
signed the
decree banning
all new open-pit
gold mining
within minutes
of taking office
on May 8, 2010.
Laura: Firm and
Honest
It's a
new era for
Costa Ricans
moving forward.
A short while
ago, Costa Rica
became 1 of 13
countries being
led by female
leadership.
Laura Chinchilla
has promised to
stick with the
Arias directives
however improve
on them.
Our Readers
Write
John Holtz has
been busy
responding to
letters
following his
article "Costa
Rica Killing The
Goose Who Laid
The Golden Egg"
published here
on Monday, May
31, 2010.
Ericsson gets optical network order from
CableTica in Costa Rica
Swedish
telecoms equipment maker Ericsson AB (STO:
ERIC B) said today it will build and operate
an optical transport network for Costa Rican
cable television operator CableTica under a
five-year deal with an undisclosed value.
Young Man Loses ¢12
Million Colones In Wrong Answer
Orlando Morales was "this" close to ¢25
million colones on Teletica's local game
show, "Quién Quiere ser Millonario" (Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire).
Legislative Building With Leaky Rook
While
legislators debated for the past several
weeks their controversial salary hike that
was finally defeated by the threat of a veto
by presidenta Chinchilla, no one took the
time to fix the leaky roof of the aging
Legislative Asamblea building. |
