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Taxi Strike Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Wednesday, taxi drivers and "porteadores" (informal taxi
drivers) will square off on the streets of San Jose, as taxi drivers
have called a day of protest, which for certain is expected to cause
all kinds of traffic jams.
BCR Lowers Interest
Rates
The Banco de Costa Rica
(BCR) announced
yesterday that it is
reducing its interest
rates 3.5 percentage
points on all new
mortgage loans and 5
percentage points for
all new small and medium
sized business loans (Pymes).
The lower rate will be
for a two year period.
ICE To Soon Have
Competition
The Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE), the
state institution that
has held the monopoly on
telecommunications in
the country for the last
80 years, will soon have
competition.
Domino's Pizza Closes
Its Doors in Costa Rica
Without notice to employees and customers, the Mexican owners of the
Domino's Pizza franchise in Costa Rica decided to pull up stakes and
close its nine store on Saturday, leaving its 130 employees,
unemployed.
¢2
Million Daily To
Maintain 125 Men In Jail
For Not Paying Alimony
and Child Support
Costa Rica spends about
¢2 million colones daily
to house and feed 125
prisoners who are behind
bars for not paying the
"pensión alimentaria"
(alimony and child
support), who each owe,
on average, ¢400.000
colones.
Costa Rica Coffee Exports Down
15%
Costa Rican coffee exports in January, the fourth month of the
current 2008-09 crop cycle, fell 15% to 119,340 bags of 60 kilograms
each, the official Costa Rican Coffee Institute, or Icafe, said
Monday.
Environmentalists Try Greening
Central American Sugar
(Reuters) - Environmental groups
are working to set up labeling programs to certify green-friendly
sugar in a bid to cut the pollution caused by this major cash crop.ions across the
United States, Mexico
and Costa Rica.
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2x1
pizza
days are
over
with the
closure
of
Domino's
Pizza in
Costa
Rica.
The
Mexican
owners
of the
franchise
in Costa
Rica
decided
to pull
the plug
on the
operations,
closing
all nine
stores
and
putting
more
than 130
people
out of
work and
without
a single
word as
to why.
[Foto:
Domino's
store in
Pavas] |
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Costa Rica Expects EU Offer on
Bananas Next Month
Costa Rica expects the European Union to make a new offer on bananas
next month in an attempt to resolve the world's longest-running
trade dispute, Foreign Trade Minister Marco Vinicio Ruiz said on
Friday.
"Patch Adams" In Costa
Rica Saturday
Hunter Campbell "Patch"
Adams, M.D., the
American physician,
social activist, citizen
diplomat, professional
clown, performer, and
author, who founded the
Gesundheit! Institute in
1972, will be in Costa
Rica Saturday 07
February.
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Panamanian Exporters
Attentive to US Crisis
Panama -
Panamanian exporters are
closely following the
evolution of the
economic crisis in the
United States, as sales
to that major trading
partner might fall.
First Femicide Trial in
Guatemala
Guatemala - Calixto
Simon Cun, accused of
physical aggression
against his wife, will
be the first Guatemalan
citizen to be tried
according to the Law
against Femicide and
Other Forms of Violence
against Women.
Colombia Re-Authorizes Senator
Cordoba to Attend Next Hostages Release
Bogota - Colombian
President Alvaro Uribe announced on Monday he will permit opposition
Senator Piedad Cordoba to join efforts to release two politicians
abducted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
ALBA Summit Today in
Venezuela
Caracas - The summit
today of the Bolivarian
Alternative for the
Peoples of our America
(ALBA) plus Ecuador and
other regional guest
countries will evaluate
the group"s goals for
2009 and plans to face
the world economic
crisis.
5.8 Earthquake Shakes Southern
Peru
Lima - The earthquake that shook southern Peru on Monday noon was
confirmed of 5.8 Richter magnitude, according to the latest report
of the Geophysics Institute of Peru (IGP), which in a preliminary
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MIGRATION-US:
Building a House for Day Labourers
Twenty-five centuries ago, ancient Athenians set aside part of their agora, the central public plaza, as a place where people seeking temporary work and others seeking workers could meet.
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Quálitas
Eyes Expansion to Costa Rica,
Panama - Central America
Mexico's
largest automobile insurance
company Quálitas, which launched
operations in El Salvador
earlier this month, is analyzing
an expansion to Costa Rica and
Panama as part of its
internationalization strategy,
top executives from Quálitas
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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
known as 3G. |
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