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Wednesday 10
September
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
No More Secrets With The
Press, Acting President
Promises
Acting president, Laura
Chinchilla, said that
"from now on there will
be nothing left out of
the press", referring to
the controversy over the
sale of Costa Rican
bonds to China.
Legislators Resume Work
On Organized Crime Bill
Legislators of the
Comisión de Seguridad
Ciudadana yesterday
resumed work on the law
against organized crime
by approving 24 articles
in one single day.
Próspero Fernández With
Partial Closing Starting
Tonight
Beginning tonight the
autopista Próspero
Fernández (San José -
Santa Ana highway) will
be partially closed -
one lane in each
direction - every night
to allow the expansion
of the highway to
continue.
No Mercy For Haiti In
World Cup Soccer Play
Costa Rica coach Rodrigo
Kenton doesn't want his
team to show any mercy
against Haiti in a World
Cup qualifier to be
played in the
storm-battered country.
Snow In Costa Rica?
It Sure Looked Like It!
Ok, so it wasn't snow,
as the area of Barrancas,
in El Guarco, Cartago,
was covered in white
from the accumulation of
"granizos" (hail) that
was part of yesterday's
weather in the Central
Valley.
Canadian Police Donates
Body Armour
Ten officers of the
Fuerza Pública's Policia
Aeroportuaria (airport
police unit) assigned to
the Daniel Oduber
international airport in
Liberia now have much
needed body armour
courtesy of Ontario's
Peel Regional Police.
Panama Canal Renews
Alliance With U.S. Port
PANAMA CITY - The Panama
Canal and the Port of
Savannah in Georgia, the
United States, renewed
Tuesday a strategic
alliance for three years
to further their
cooperation, the
Authority of the Panama
Canal (ACP) said
Tuesday.
CAN Urges EU To
Regularize Andean
Immigrants
LIMA - The Andean
Community of Nations
(CAN) urged the European
Union (EU) Tuesday to
hold an interregional
dialogue on regularizing
the Andean immigrants in
Europe and not to call
the undocumented people
"illegal."
Colombian Police Seize
us$900,000 From Drug
Cartel
BOGOTA - Colombian
police said Tuesday that
officers had seized
us$900,000 dollars
allegedly belonging to
the "Don Mario" drug
cartel.
Venezuela Deports Former
Colombian Senator Wanted
By Colombia
CARACAS - Venezuela
deported Tuesday former
Colombian Senator Alvaro
Araujo Noguera, who has
been detained by the
Venezuelan National
Guard since last
Thursday, to Colombia.
Hurricane Ike Kills 4 In
Cuba
La HABANA -
Hurricane Ike left the
Cuban territory on
Tuesday after killing
four people and causing
severe damages to
houses, electricity,
communications and
agriculture in the
Caribbean country.
ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL:
Click Here to Plant a
Tree
It has become
fashionable in Latin
America to pursue
initiatives towards
"zero carbon",
neutralising the
climate-changing
greenhouse gases
produced by industry,
commercial aviation and
even the football World
Cup -- and along with
it, atoning for the
environmental sins of
polluters.
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