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Gunmen Shoot Up Honduran Newspaper Office

TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) – A car full ofpeople dressed in military fatigues conducteda drive-by shooting of the central officeof the Honduran daily La Tribuna on...

Panama Annuls 007’s License

PANAMA CITY (AFP) –Panamanian President Martín Torrijosannounced this week that his governmentis annulling 121 diplomatic passports,including one issued to Scottish actorSean Connery, known for...

Honduras: Harris Cooperating with Case

SAN JOSÉ – Beleaguered childrenright’s activist Bruce Harris last week lefthis home in Costa Rica, shortly after beingfired from his job as director of...

Region Warns of al-Qaeda Link with Gangs

GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) –Guatemala’s Vice-President Eduardo Steinwarned Monday of a possible connectionbetween members of the terrorist networkal-Qaeda and youth gangs in CentralAmerica.“We have received...

National Airline Keeps Expanding Horizons

NEARLY one year after it began offering flights to Granada, Nicaragua, Costa Rican airline Nature Air is showing no signs of slowing down. The...

Tax Collection Improved During First Eight Months

BETWEEN January and August, thegovernment collected ¢668 billion ($1.54billion) in taxes – 17% more than lastyear, according to the Finance Ministry.The increase occurred despite...

Future Tico Engineers Show Off Their Robots

MORE than 100 students and 40teachers gathered on the second floor ofthe Children’s Museum in San José Sept.24 for the second School RoboticsFestival.Wearing red...

President Appoints Ambassador to OAS

PRESIDENT Abel Pacheco onTuesday named Rina Contreras, his formerPresidency Minister, as Costa Rica’snew ambassador to the Organization ofAmerican States (OAS).Contreras will begin work at...

New Trade Minister to Foster CAFTA Discussion

NEW Foreign Trade Minister ManuelGonzález is promising to promote anopen dialogue between the country’s differentsectors on the Central AmericanFree-Trade Agreement with the UnitedStates (CAFTA).González...

High Court Rules on Prison Concession

THE Constitutional Chamber of theSupreme Court (Sala IV) on Tuesday ruledthat the proposed concession to build andoperate a maximum-security prison inPococí, in the eastern...

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