The start of the rainy season is already reeking havoc in the country, especially the coast areas. Simon Shaw sends us this photo of the wash out of the bridge on the road between Paquera and Tambor, about 2 kilometers past Playa Tambor going towards Cobano. The water washed the road out on the bridge abutment. [Foto: Simon Shaw] |
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San José -
Caldera
Instills Fear
Among Drivers
Driving on the
San José -
Caldera has
become a Russian
roulette, as
fallen rocks and
mudslides play
with people's
lives. In the
four months the
highway has been
opened there
have been
numerous
problems, which
are now
intensified with
the start of the
rainy season.
Laura Puts
Legislator's In Their Place: Pay
Hike Dead and
Buried!
Listening to the
will or the
people or the
finding of a
collective
conscience or
perhaps heeding
to the stern
warning of
presidenta
Chinchilla,
legislators have
given up on
giving
themselves a
hefty salary
raise even
though the bill
had already been
approved in
first vote.
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GSM & 3G Phones, Data & SIM Cards, Prepaid
Phones & SIM Cards.
Guanacaste On
"Yellow" Alert
For Heavy Rains
Five bridges
damages, 30
roads with
problems - four
highways and 26
rural routes -
and 324 people
affected is the
tally of the
severe rain that
has hit
Guanacaste in
the last couple
of days.
Power Company Takes
Responsibility For Damage By Lightning Of
Household Appliances
When lightning strikes, your household
appliances, stereo, television and computer
equipment are all in danger of being damaged
by a surge or spikes in electricity.
Herradura First
Costa Rican
Hotel To
Complete Medical
Tourism Training
Course
In the first
course of its
kind, 250 staff
members of the
Ramada Plaza
Herradura in San
José, Costa
Rica, completed
a two day
training
program, “Caring
for the Medical
Tourist”,
created and
delivered in
Spanish by
Medical Tourism
Training.
Judge Annuls
Rare Restraining
Order Against
Wyoming
Newspapers
CHEYENNE
(Associated
Press) - A judge
Tuesday
dissolved a rare
restraining
order that had
prohibited two
newspapers from
publishing
stories about a
college
president’s trip
to Costa Rica.
France Beats Costa
Rica 2-1 In Friendly
LENS, France - Mathieu Valbuena scored in
his international debut to help France beat
Costa Rica 2-1 in a World Cup warmup
Wednesday, with Raymond Domenech's team
showing encouraging signs in a new attacking
formation.
Laura
Chinchilla,
Costa Rica's
First Woman
President
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While in Spain
to negotiate the
trade agreement
with the
European Union
earlier this
month, Costa
Rica's first
woman president
took the time to
be interviewed
by Spain's El
País daily, who
is being
described as the
only woman
president in
Latin America
coming to power
without the "aupadas"
(the help of her
husband). |
ICE Offers Morose
Customers Payment Arrangements
Since the beginning of the year, the
Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) has been promoting its new 3G service
and package deals for upper end 3G
telephones on a payment plan over 12, 24 and
36 months.
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