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Friday 05 December
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
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Users Can File
Complaints Against Rude
and Offensive Taxi and
Bus Drivers
Users of public
transportation services
like taxis and buses
will finally have
recourse against the
insults of rude and
offensive drivers.
Dollar Appreciates
¢16 In
A Single Day
with a Central Bank
reference rate of
¢526.12 for the buyr and
¢536.50 for the sell.
The actual exchange rate
at the state and private
banks hovered between
¢525 and ¢530 for the
sell and ¢535 and ¢542
for the sell.
Padre Minor Could Be
Free In Three Months
Without a doubt, Padre
Minor, the Catholic
priest convicted of
fraud, has God on his
side as the Tribunal de
Juicio de Heredia
reduced his fifteen year
sentence to eight years
and could be out in only
three months.
Costa Rica Coffee
Exports Down 2.9%
Costa Rican coffee
exports in November, the
second month of the new
2008-09 crop cycle, fell
2.9% to 64,060 bags of
60 kilograms each, the
official Costa Rican
Coffee Institute, or
Icafe, said Thursday.
U.S. Troops Aiding Costa
Rica, Panama
Two U.S. military
disaster-relief teams
from Joint Task
Force-Bravo, based at
Soto Cano Air Base in
Honduras, have delivered
more than 278,000 pounds
of relief supplies to
victims in
flood-affected
communities in Costa
Rica and Panama.
Children's Hospital
Christmas Tree Comes
Alive
35.000 light bulbs is
what it takes to
illuminate the Árbol de
Navidad del Hospital
Nacional de Niños
(Christmas Tree in front
of the Children's
Hospital). The ligths
went on last night as
hundreds of children and
their parents took part
in the traditional
annual festivity.
Big Drop In Gasoline
Prices Next Week, ¢152 A
Litre
Christmas for drivers
will come early with the
expected announcement by
the Autoridad Reguladora
de los Servicios
Públicos (Aresep) to
reduce gasoline prices
by ¢152 colones for a
litre of super, ¢150 for
regular and ¢85 for
diesel. The new prices
are expected to be in
effect by not later than
next Friday, 12
December.
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LETTERS:
New Ley de
Transito,
Bad Investment,
3G,
Shark Finning,
Time Out,
Proposed
Immigration Bill,
Eradicating
Slums |
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Russian Warship To Pass
Through Panama Canal
A Russian
warship was set Friday
to sail through the
Panama Canal for the
first time since World
War II in a symbolic
challenge to US
influence in the region.
Insecurity Climate
Worries Guatemalans
Guatemala -
Representatives of
diverse social sectors
manifested their concern
for the high rate of
violence and insecurity
lived in Guatemala and
they called on
authorities to take
urgent measures to
counteract them.
Central America for
Anti-Crisis Measures
Tegucigalpa - Central
American Ministers of
Economy or Trade are in
Honduras to participate
in a meeting to adopt
urgent measures against
global, economic and
financial downturn.
Venezuela-Cuba Health
Plan Helps 20,000
Caracas - Almost
20,000 Venezuelans have
received ophthalmologic
surgery in Cuba to date,
thanks to the bilateral
health agreement inked
eight years ago.
New Measures for Bolivia
Referendum
La Paz - Bolivia's
National Electoral (CNE)
announced new security
measures Thursday,
before the
constitutional
referendum scheduled for
January 25.
HEALTH-LATIN AMERICA:
Women Crusaders Against
Epidemics
With cutting-edge
science, social organisation and a
strategy that puts an
emphasis on prevention
and environmental
controls, Cristina Díaz
and her team checked the
spread of dengue in
Cuba, while María Monroy
did the same with Chagas’
disease in Guatemala.
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/Sell $1 |
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▲¢540.59 |
▲¢552.83 |
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B.C.C.R.
05 December 2008 |
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