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Daily Archives: April 17, 2012
$340 million loan signed to pay for many road jobs
The government signed a deal Monday to borrow $340 million from a development bank to make major improvements in roadways, including the construction of 3.8 kilometers as the first phase of the much-awaited Circunvalación Norte and overpasses at the congested … Continue reading
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Hey, Buddy! Can you spare 594.2 billion colons?
Is it possible that personal finances in Costa Rica mirror that of the central government? Is it possible that Costa Ricans owe $1.2 billion on their credit cards. That is the report from the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio. … Continue reading
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Milanes and Villalobos: a study in contrasts
It’s been many years since Milanes was captured. He has received the best treatment by the courts, and since then the Costa Rican and American victims have received nothing but bills from their lawyers. The victims who live here deserve … Continue reading
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Strip club mainstay is now the new elegant exercise fad
The skill of pole dancing has come out of strip clubs and gained elegance as a new exercise fad. What used to be considered seedy has found a place in certain dance studios and have taken over as the new, … Continue reading
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Law enforcement has diverse reasons for questionnaire raid
A Fuerza Pública official said that a Saturday night lockdown of the Del Rey and its Key Largo dance club was an operation to attack sexual exploitation. The director of Fundación Rahab, which had volunteers involved in the police action, … Continue reading
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Virus in U.S. is100% fatal to amphibians, reptiles
Since the mid 1990s, a type of virus known as a ranavirus has been taking a devastating toll on reptiles and amphibians, especially turtles, frogs, toads and salamanders, in more than 20 states across the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading
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More than 4,000 try out the new highway along Río San Juan
There were more than 4,000 persons who participated in a Sunday bike event on the new Juan Rafael Mora Porras, Ruta Nacional 1856, alongside Nicaragua’s Río San Juan. The event was styled as a peace ride to promote the national … Continue reading
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Extent of eruption Saturday captured in photographs
Volcano experts are confirming that there was an eruption at Volcán Rincón de la Vieja Saturday afternoon. They are helped in their investigation by statements from residents and photographs. The eruption also was detected by seismographs as if it were … Continue reading
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U.S. citizen will again hold the World Bank top job
The directors of the World Bank have named another American, Jim Yong Kim, to be the president of the global development agency. Kim is a physician, anthropologist, and president of Dartmouth College. Previously, he ran the United Nations efforts to … Continue reading
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Commercial spacecraft readied for launch April 30
The only spacecrafts to travel to the International Space Station have been produced by nations, not commercial enterprises. But that could change if a previously postponed launch takes place at the end of this month, as planned. The Dragon would … Continue reading
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Police zero in on site where chickens fight
Fuerza Pública officers said they located a chicken-fighting compound in Ciudad Cortés Monday. But officers said they could not enter because the property is private. Instead they managed to locate 10 injured chickens nearby and confiscated 51 spurs that are … Continue reading
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Banco Nacional leads cleanup of new stadium
Well, someone had to do it. That is why Sunday volunteers associated with Banco Nacional brought their brooms, mops and other cleaning equipment to the Estadio Nacional. About 200 person participated in the first of three Sunday cleanups, said the … Continue reading
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