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New
Tránsito Officials To
Earn Less Than New Traffic Fine
The new 400 Tráficos (transit officials) will be earning less than
the fine that a careless or drunk driver would pay.
ICE Will Soon Have
Competition In Telephone
Services
The Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) will
soon have competition.
The newly created
Superintendencia de
Telecomunicaciones (Sutel)
- telecommunications
board - confirmed that
Ticom, Amnet, ICANN,
WorldCom, InterTel
Worldwise and R&H
International Telecom,
have all expressed an
interest in opening up
the Costa Rican telecom
industry.
Intel Is At Home in
Costa Rica - For Now
Computer chipmaking
giant Intel started the
year off like several
other big-name
companies: taking stock,
crunching numbers and,
ultimately, scheduling
painful cutbacks to cope
with the global
downturn. In January,
amid plummeting computer
demand, California-based
Intel announced as many
as 6,000 layoffs and
five plant closures by
year's end.
Jeremy Lusk Loses Battle To
Survive FMX Accident in Costa Rica
Action sports star Jeremy Lusk lost is
battle to survive the freestyle motocross accident he suffered
Saturday night at the Saprissa stadium in the X-Knights event. Luck
did this morning in the Calderon Guardia hospital after being in a
coma since the accident.
Costa Rican Website is Launched
for the German Community
Costa Rica Aktuell will be posting daily articles in the German
language about Costa Rica hotels, tourist attractions, National
Parks, tour operators, special events and celebrations among others.
Costa Rica Cock-Up Hits
Holidaymaker
A woman who booked a
three-week holiday ended
up 1,300 miles away from
her chosen destination
after travel agents
mixed up her flights.
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Amid
shutdowns
and
layoffs
announced
this
month
due to
the
financial
crisis,
Intel
says it
is
staying
put in
Costa
Rica,
for now,
despite
the
announced
global
reduction.
Intel's
processors
make up
a
whopping
20% of
Costa
Rican
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Another 140 Join The
Unemployment Line Due To Financial Crisis
Another 140 people have made the list of the unemployed or to be
employed as the company, Sábila Industrial, located in Liberia,
closed its plant without notice and without paying its employees
severance pay nor the salaries for the second half of January,
according to the ministerio de Trabajo.
Price of Rice and Taxi
Fares Down
The price of rice in
Costa Rica protected by
government which
establishes the maximum
price to the consumer.
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