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Monthly Archives: October, 2004

Youth Challenged to Answer Where in the World?

TEENS who know that Nanga Parbatis in Kashmir or that the Mures riverflows into the Tisza stand a chance atwinning the upcoming seventh annualNational...

Health Officials Deny Medicine Caused Deaths

IN spite of alarm raised to the contrary,generic medicine prescribed to kidneytransplant patients is safe, top officials ofthe Social Security System (Caja), whichprovides cradle-to-grave...

New Butterfly Species Named after Country

Leila de Pacheco with a framed picture ofthe butterfly, in a symbolic gesture “tothank the country for all the support it hasprovided during our...

Proposed Fishing Law Sent Back to Debate

A proposed law that would give governmentofficials authority to enforce thenation’s fishing regulations, which wasapproved in first debate by the LegislativeAssembly in July, has...

Foreign Workers Reap Benefits of Coffee Harvest

BETWEEN 150,000 and 200,000coffee pickers, most of whom are fromNicaragua and other countries, will participatein the coffee harvest in CostaRica, which is expected to...

National Debt, Spending Debate Continues

FINANCE Minister Federico Carrilloand members of the Legislative Assemblyappear to be at a fiscal impasse regardingthe nation’s spending and debt.Carrillo maintains his position thatreducing...

Stamps Honoring Rodríguez Present Sticky Situation

JUST before the official appointmentof former President Miguel ÁngelRodríguez as Secretary General of theOrganization of American States (OAS)last month, the Costa Rican PostalService printed...

Hundreds Expected At Buyers’ Conference

BUSINESSES from around theworld will come to San José to negotiatedirectly with Costa Rican exportersduring the fourth Commercial Buyers’Mission next week, organized bythe Foreign...

Price of Gas Rises Again

ANOTHER increase in the price ofgas took effect Wednesday.A liter of super unleaded gasolinenow costs ¢361.40 ($0.80), up from¢349.80 ($0.78), according to figuresfrom Costa...

Cellular Phone Purchase Suffers Another Blow

THE Constitutional Chamber of theSupreme Court (Sala IV) this weekrejected an appeal filed by the Swedishtelecommunications firm Ericsson,accused of having paid for hotel rooms...

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