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Saturday 18
August 2007, San José, Costa
Rica
Contraloría Says
Governments Lacks the
Funds Deliver on Promise
of Building Homes For
the Poor
The Contraloría General
de la República
(comptroller's office)
is asking the government
to find other sources of
funds for the Banhvi to
finance the promise made
to deliver 20.000 homes
to poor families.
Recope Appeals
Aresep Decision Of Monthly Gasoline
Price Changes
The Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo
(Recope) - national refinery and
distributor of combustibles - has
appealed a decision by the Autoridad
Reguladora de Servicios Públicos (Aresep)
that would allow changes to gasoline
prices once a month.
300 kg of Cocaine Seized
A total of 300 kg of
cocaine has been seized
in an abandoned boat in
Costa Rica, the
ministerio de Seguridad
Pública announced on Friday.
Marriages For Money May
Soon Be Thing Of The
Past
The business of
foreigners marrying
Costa Rican nationals
for money without ever
even having met will
soon come to an end.
Canada Ousts Costa Rica
The Canadian men's
sitting volleyball team
defeated Costa Rica
25-8, 25-12, 25-10 on
Friday at the 2007
Parapanamerican Games in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
160,000 Species
Threatened
According to recent studies, world
temperatures would rise by 3 degrees
centigrade in the next 90 years and the
sea level would do so by 1 metre in the
same period.
Nicaragua to Study
Electricity Saving
Nicaragua's energy
sector will discuss a
new rationing program
amid little hope that
the annoying power cuts
may drop.
Salvadoran President
Concludes Panama Visit
Salvadorian President
Elias Antonio Saca left
a calmer Panama City
Friday with his host,
Panamanian President
Martin Torrijos, to
inaugurate a hospital in
Chiriqui.
US Firm to Expand Panama
Canal
The US CH2M Hill
corporation won the bid
for the contract to act
as manager of the Panama
Canal expansion program
Friday.
Guatemala: Organized
Crime Bully Polls
The possibility that
drug money penetrated
the election drive rise
as powerful threat to
the elections in
Guatemala and concern of
social and political
organizations.
Peru hit by new tremor
Peru was hit by a
5.9-magnitude tremor
Friday after the
devastating earthquake
rocked southern Peru
this week and killed
hundreds of people, the
U.S. Geological Survey
said.
CORRUPTION-HONDURAS:
International Aid
Hanging by a Thread
The Honduran government
of Manuel Zelaya has not
been able to overcome
the country’s reputation
for corruption, to the
extent that it is on the
point of losing millions
of dollars in aid from
the Millennium Challenge
Account, a fund set up
by the United States to
help extremely poor
countries.
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