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Friday 26 September
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Excessive Military
Spending Is A Perversion
Of Values, Costa Rica
President Says At UN
Universal literacy, the
eradication of many
preventable diseases and
safe drinking water for
everyone could all be
achieved if the world
spent as much on those
causes as it already
does on military forces,
Costa Rica’s president,
Oscar Arias Sánchez,
told the United Nations
General Assembly in a
call for a radical
re-think of global
spending.
Recope Upset At Gasoline
Price Drop Decision By
Regulatory Authority
The only one upset about
the decision by the
Autoridad Reguladora de
los Servicios Públicos (Aresep)
to reduce the price of
gasoline is José León
Desanti, president of
the Refinadora
Costarricense de
Petróleo (Recope).
Cruise Liner Season
Opens in Puntarenas With
the Arrival of the Coral
Princess
The cruise liner season
began in Puntarenas with
the arrival of the Coral
Princess with its 2.000
passengers. And so did
the protest by local
independent transport
operators, who are
asking guaranteed work.
Guanacaste Second In
Construction Permits
This Year
As of the end of August,
Guanacaste placed second
to San José out of Costa
Rica’s seven provinces
in the number of
construction permits
rubber-stamped by the
Engineers and Architects
Federated Association (CFIA).
Overall, a total of
6,700,711 new square
meters of construction
have been approved
during 2008 — a 25
percent increase over
the same period last
year.
María José In the Latin
American Idol Finals
In a controversial
decision by the
producers of the Latin
American Idol, no one of
the four finalists were
dropped, leaving all
four contestants, and
not three, to compete in
the grand finale last
week.
Blackberry On Sale in
Costa Rica Next Month
The Blackberry is set to
hit, legally, the Costa
Rican market next month
as the Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) -
state telecom - will be
offering the sale of
equipment for the first
time in its history.
Panamanian Port
Authority Launches
Program To Privatize
Ports
Panama's port authority
(AMP) has launched a
program to privatize
three inland ports whose
development has been
hindered due to a number
of factors, Chilean
paper Marítimo Portuario
reported on its website.
Guatemalans Study Doing
Business with Cuba
GUATEMALA - More
than one hundred
Guatemalan
businesspeople from
different sectors
attended a meeting at
the Cuban embassy, about
opportunities to trade
with the Island.
Venezuelan President,
Russian PM Discuss
Bilateral Cooperation
CARACAS - Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez,
who is visiting Russia,
discussed bilateral
relations and
international issues on
Thursday with Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin.
Morales Rejects
Opposition Autonomy
Proposal
LIMA - Bolivian
President Evo Morales on
Thursday rejected a
proposal from opposition
governors to give full
autonomy to their
provinces while talks
aimed at aimed at ending
the political crisis in
the country were
postponed to next week.
Brazilian FM: Emerging
Economies To Remain
Locomotive of Global
Growth
RIO DE JANEIRO -
Brazilian Finance
Minister Guido Mantega
said Thursday that
emerging economies will
continue to be the
locomotive of the
world's economic growth.
CENTRAL AMERICA:
Violence Exacts
Increasingly Heavy Toll
Violent crime costs
Central America an
estimated 6.5 billion
dollars a year,
equivalent to 7.7
percent of gross
domestic product in the
region, where the two
least violent countries
are the wealthiest --
Costa Rica -- and the
poorest -- Nicaragua,
according to a study
carried out in El
Salvador. |
