GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – Thegovernment this week proposed beginningfree-trade negotiations with Belizeas an effort to improve strained relationscaused by an ongoing border conflictbetween the...
TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) – TheHonduran government this week started anew national registry of legal weapons aspart of a campaign to combat violence.“We are inaugurating, for...
SAN SALVADOR (AFP) – With twoweeks to go before the government’s provisionaland highly controversial anti-ganglaw expires July 2, new PresidentAntonio Saca has already started...
COMPUTER-chip manufacturinggiant Intel, in La Ribera de Belén, northwestof San José, last week began manufacturingits first chipsets.Chipsets are special componentsadded to computer motherboards toenhance...
THE Canadian company EBIBERTHIER, which administers the onlylandfill in the San José area, hasannounced it will continue operating, LaRepública reported.Presidency Minister Ricardo Toledosaid the...
HALF of Costa Rican voters couldcast their votes by electronic ballot in2006 if an agreement is formalizedbetween Costa Rica, Brazil and theOrganization of American...
THE Constitutional Chamber of theSupreme Court (Sala IV) was set to begina review today of three motions of unconstitutionalityfiled against President AbelPacheco and his...
A newspaper journalist was arrested thisweek in connection with the murder case ofjournalist Parmenio Medina, AttorneyGeneral Francisco Dall’Anese announcedon Wednesday.Dall’Anese said prosecutors suspect thejournalist...
AS the country prepared to celebrateNational Tree Day on Tuesday, theWorkers Syndicate of the Environment andEnergy Ministry (SITRAMINAE) announcedit filed a motion of unconstitutionalitylast...
GOVERNMENT officials this weekdownplayed concerns that the country’sfailure to ratify an international maritimeagreement would result in full-scale paralysisof international commerce at the country’sports.However, “just...
