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Notary agency
independent
under new legal setup By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Dirección Nacional de Notariado is becoming independent of the judiciary. A law to that effect soon will be published in the La Gaceta official newspaper putting the changes into effect. Instead of the judiciary, the agency that supervises notaries will be managed by a new Consejo Superior Notarial, which will have members appointed by the Consejo de Gobierno, the president's cabinet. The current situation will continue until Jan. 18, the expected date that the new law will go into effect, said a spokesman for the Poder Judicial. The independent agency will be self-supporting through the various tax stamps that are required on official documents. Notaries have much more power in Costa Rica than in the northern part of the hemisphere. Each has to be a lawyer who has taken months of additional classes and training. Property deeds in Costa Rica do not bear the signature of the seller. Instead, a statement of the transfer signed by the notary is placed in the Registro Nacional. The Sala IV constitutional court ruled the notary agency's relationship with the judicial unconstitutional in 2006 and gave the legislature three years to make other arrangements. Several government ministries wanted to assume the agency. One was the Ministerio de Justicia y Paz. The notary agency has been a hotbed of fraud. Because of the way property ownership is listed, a crooked notary can change the ownership of just about any property. Notary submissions are written on special paper and the author is supposed to keep a copy in a protocol book. When investigators capture a ring of property fraud artists there always seems to be a notary or two involved. But most are not punished either by the Dirección Nacional de Notariado or the courts. Notaries simply report that their protocol book has been stolen, and judges usually let them off the hook. Country gets U.S. grant By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The U.S. Department of Energy has allocated $100,000 to Costa Rica to create a center of energy efficiency at the Universidad de Costa Rica. President Óscar Airas Sánchez and U.S. officials signed a memo to that effect Wednesday. The goal is to help Costa Ricas to become carbon neutral by 2021 and to help researchers exploit alternative energy sources. Muhammed cartoon creator escapes attack by Muslim By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A Somali man with alleged links to terrorist groups al-Shabab and al-Qaida has been charged with an attempt to kill a Danish cartoonist whose depiction of the Prophet Muhammed sparked outrage in the Muslim world. Police and medical personnel carried an injured Somali man strapped to a stretcher into a Danish court Saturday, just hours after his alleged attempt to kill Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. The suspect's face was covered by a blanket and under Danish privacy laws his name has not been revealed. The 28-year-old man was later charged with two counts of attempted murder for Friday's attack on Westergaard, whose cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban in 2005 ignited riots and outrage among Muslims worldwide. The suspect denied the charges. Denmark's intelligence service claimed that the alleged attacker had close ties to the Somali terrorist groups al-Shabab and al-Qaida in eastern Africa. The man apparently broke into Westergaard's home near the town of Aarhus about 200 kilometers northwest of the capital Copenhagen. Westergaard, 74, fled with his granddaughter to a special safe room in his house where he could call police. The deputy chief superintendent of the Aarhus police, Fritz Keldsen, confirmed that the man was shot after apparently threatening police with an axe and a knife.
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The round of holiday parties moves to Palmares starting Jan. 13. The tope, the big gathering of horses and riders, is the next day. There are many special musical guests invited to perform. The Fiestas Palmares 2010 runs until Jan. 25. The event is basically a carnival much like the Zapote festival that ran from Christmas Day until Jan. 3. There is food, rides, shows. And, of course, there are bulls to entertain spectators in the 1,500-seat arena. |
The beer tents are popular, and the
Policía de Tránsito makes a big
haul each year of drunk drivers trying to return to the Central Valley.
There also is bus transportation. The Fuerza Pública, fresh off a successful event in Zapote, will be sending 250 officers to provide fiesta security. Officers also will be screening visitors as they enter the carnival grounds to weed out drugs and troublemakers. Extra police will be on duty for the concerts Jan. 17 and 24, security officials said. |
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| Intel donating $200 million to enhance
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As U.S. students return to school this week, Intel Corp. – in conjunction with President Barack Obama's "Educate to Innovate" Campaign – has announced a 10-year, $200 million commitment to advance education in math and science. The announcement is part of the Obama Administration's most recent effort to stress the importance of science and math education in U.S. schools. "Intel has worked for decades to improve science and math education, so the president's initiative is exciting and timely," said Shelly Esque, vice president, legal and corporate affairs director. "At Intel, we feel strongly that the real magic to help young minds compete in an innovative society comes from the teachers." As part of its $200 million commitment, Intel will provide |
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more than 100,000 U.S. math and science teachers over the next three
years, including an intensive 80-hour professional development math
course for elementary school teachers and new Web-based instruction and
collaboration tools including targeted professional development for
science teachers of all grades. Currently, this teacher training is available in just four states. The content and materials will now be available to school districts in all 50 states at no cost. Intel will continue to maintain its support for the Intel Science Talent Search and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, which reach 600,000 American students per year. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. It has facilities in Belén |
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The Presidential Challenge of Costa Rica, scheduled for March 4 to 7, coincides perfectly with the height of the billfishing season off central Costa Rica, offering anglers the ultimate in light-tackle angling in a tournament setting that's highly competitive both on a team and individual angler basis, said organizers. This year's event is once again in the blue waters off Carrillo on the Pacific coast of the Nicoya Peninsula. The |
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entry fee includes nightly cocktail parties in addition to the awards
dinner at the completion of the event. All proceeds from the tournament
will go to The Billfish Foundation to support its conservation efforts
in Costa Rica. The waters hold sailfish and a large number of blue, black and striped marlin, according to organizers. This year's event kicks off March 4th with registration and a mandatory angler's meeting. Fishing begins March 5th. |
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| Development
promoted to key in U.S. foreign policy By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a Washington policy address Wednesday said the Obama administration intends to put development and foreign aid on the same level as diplomacy and military power in U.S. foreign policy. She also said empowering women around the world is not just a personal priority but a strategic interest of the United States. Mrs. Clinton, in office now for nearly a year, has spoken frequently about the need to upgrade and modernize the U.S. foreign aid program. But her speech at a Washington policy institute was the first devoted entirely to the subject and she said it is time to elevate development as a central pillar of foreign policy. The secretary, speaking at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, said the United States seeks a safer, more prosperous, more democratic and equitable world but it can't be assured of progress toward that goal as long as a third of mankind is mired in poverty. "We cannot stop terrorism or defeat the ideologies of violent extremism when hundreds of millions of young people see a future with no jobs, no hope and no way ever to catch up to the developed world," said Mrs. Clinton. "We cannot build a stable global economy when hundreds of millions of workers and families find themselves on the wrong side of globalization, cut off from markets and out of reach of modern technologies." The Obama administration has already promised to double the non-military U.S. foreign aid budget to $50 billion a year by 2012 and Mrs. Clinton's speech offered no new commitments. But she said the U.S. Agency for International Development, which in the process of doubling its overseas staff, must be rebuilt into the world's premier development agency. She also said the U.S. aid community must have the courage to rethink its strategies and must not simply add up the dollars spent, but assure that the programs achieve lasting change in recipient nations. "In countries that are incubators of extremism like Yemen, or are ravaged by poverty and natural disasters like Haiti, the odds are long," she said. "But the cost of doing nothing is potentially far greater. We must accept that our development model cannot be formulaic, that which works in Pakistan may not work in Peru. So our approach must be case-by-case and country-by-country, region-by-region." Mrs. Clinton paid tribute to two aid initiatives of the Bush administration — the Millennium Challenge Corp, which makes grants to countries with concrete plans for good governance and fighting corruption, and PEPFAR, the anti HIV-AIDS program, which has provided millions of Africans and others with anti-viral medications while stressing AIDS prevention. She also said the administration intends to better coordinate traditional aid programs with others aimed at boosting foreign trade and investment like the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act. And she said the United States is moving to put women at the front and center of U.S. development work, saying women and girls are one of the world's greatest untapped resources. "This is not only a strategic interest of the United States, it is an issue of personal importance to me, and one I have worked on for almost four decades," said Mrs. Clinton. "I will not accept words without deeds when it comes to women's progress. I will hold our agencies accountable for ensuring that our government and our foreign policy support the world's women and achieve lasting, meaningful progress on these issues." The secretary of State said she is working to integrate U.S. aid efforts more closely with diplomacy and defense operations abroad without politicizing aid programs, saying the 3-D's, development, diplomacy and defense, must be mutually-reinforcing. She also said that advancing human rights is an integral part of the U.S. development agenda. |
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Africans face trial as terrorist drug couriers By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Three citizens of the West African country of Mali will soon go on trial in the United States on charges of conspiracy to commit acts of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The three, Oumar Issa, Harouna Toure, and Idriss Abelrahman, were arrested Dec. 16 in Ghana after they allegedly agreed to transport cocaine through West and North Africa to Europe for al-Qaida, al-Qaida in the Islamic Magreb and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia. The three organizations have been designated by the U.S. State Department as foreign terrorist groups. Lou Milione, supervisory special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said the arrests were made after a series of undercover meetings. “In the complaint, it lays out that there were a series of undercover meetings where there were audio and video recordings, And during those negotiations, our undercovers, one of them presented himself as a member of the FARC. And the other undercover presented themselves as a Lebanese sympathizer or Islamic sympathizer and also anti-American,” he said. Milione said that during undercover negotiations, Oumar Issa, Harouna Toure, and Idriss Abelrahman admitted to being supporters of al-Qaida in the Islamic Margreb. U.S. official in Honduras seeking stalemate's end By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A senior U.S. diplomat is in Honduras for more talks on reuniting the parties involved in the long-running stalemate over Manuel Zelaya's ouster last year. U.S. officials say Craig Kelly, the deputy assistant secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, arrived in the Central American nation Tuesday to meet with the deposed president and his rival, interim President Roberto Micheletti. Kelly is also expected to see president-elect Porfirio Lobo, who takes office Jan. 27. Kelly was also in Honduras in November to discuss the stalemate. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley says the United States is continuing efforts to help the parties move forward in implementing the Tegucigalpa-San José Accord on ending the turmoil over Zelaya's removal. The deal calls for the creation of a national unity government and a truth commission to look into the circumstances of the coup. Zelaya was ousted in a military-backed coup June 28 and sent into exile. He returned to Honduras in September and has been holed up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa under the threat of arrest. Zelaya's opponents say he was trying to illegally change the constitution to extend his term in office. |
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