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in a high security mode By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Fuerza Pública officers are on alert today because the new salmon-colored 20,000-colon banknotes are being dispensed at automatic teller machines, at banks and in stores. Police said they are going to give special attention to the teller machines, which are frequent sites of robberies. The new note is the first of a series of six that the Banco Central will issue. Each denomination contains sophisticated security features that are designed to frustrate counterfeiters. The 20,000-colon note contains a graphic of a hummingbird, so it probably will be christened with that as a nickname: colibri. It also contains an image of the writer Carmen Lyra on it. The bill, the first of the series, was supposed to come out in August. The highest denomination bill will be the 50,000-colon note. Until today, the highest denomination banknote in Costa Rica was the 10,000-colon bill. More information on the new currency is HERE! Two communities suffer under garbage buildup By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Both San José and Escazú have garbage pickup problems because trucks are awaiting repair. In San José only eight trucks are in good enough shape to go into the streets. That is less than half the fleet. In Escazú three trucks are out of service and the municipality said that garbage collection will be affected for the next two weeks. San José garbage collectors are meeting with Mayor Johnny Araya today to try to resolve the problem. They promise a strike Thursday if more trucks are not on the road. U.N. officials and agencies mark International Peace Day Special to A.M. Costa Rica
From cultural displays and a parade of peacekeepers to a children’s immunization campaign and the handing over of responsibilities to local police, United Nations field offices and missions around the world marked International Day of Peace Tuesday with a series of events in honor of its key themes. This year’s day is dedicated to young people, as 2010 also marks the beginning of the International Year of Youth, whose theme is dialogue and mutual understanding. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon used his official message to urge youth to work to promote international peace. “And I say to all young people, join us. Help us to work for peace. You are impatient. You see what we, your elders, allow to persist, year after year: poverty and hunger; injustice and impunity; environmental degradation,” Ban said. Police catch 15 year olds after two women robbed By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Police grabbed two 15-year-olds they said robbed two women of their purses and stabbed one with a knife. The crime took place in Parque Nicaragua in Zapote, in eastern San José. Each robber had a knife. Police picked up the trail quickly and detained the suspects. They said the teens carried the purses and other belongings of the women. One woman suffered a cut finger from the robbery. The second woman was threatened but not stabbed, said Fuerza Pública official Carlos Alvarado. Musician loses in labor court By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A musician who worked at a Cartago hotel for three years ending in 2006 was not an employee but a contractor, the Sala II labor court has decided. The man was let go and wanted payments from the hotel that are due employees. Even though the contract between the hotel and the musician mentioned a labor relationship in passing, the court said that the situation clearly was one of a contractor.
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| Earlier residents have fought potholes and flooding, too |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Residents have been wrestling with rain and flooding since the first human prowled the rainforest. If there is a constant in Costa Rica, it is that residents must plan to prevent rainy season disasters. Rains in the last week flooded out residents along the Río María Aguilar. The stretch runs from La Unión, Cartago province, to San José. The national emergency commission blames much of the disaster on poor urban planning and failure to maintain infrastructure. Paved parking lots do not hold water well. And some low areas eventually will be flooded. There was more flooding Tuesday. These are not new problems. Earlier residents have won modern praise for handling the rain. Residents around the Turrialba volcano get about 140 inches of rain a year. Much of it falls between August and November. There probably has been little seasonal change in thousands of years. This is the site on the flank of the volcano where the city now called Guayabo flourished until shortly before the Spanish arrival. Just like parts of modern San Sebastian and Zapote, the site is near waterways that must have swelled during downpours. Yet the site is still there, the streams having been tamed. The American Society of Civil Engineers named the remains of the city as an international engineering heritage site because of the elaborate waterworks, tanks and drainage systems. Some of the stone systems still work carrying away excess water. Guayabo is the name of a fruit tree. No one knows what the residents really called the site. There is no translated language, just enigmatic carvings, many featuring crocodiles and jaguars. The city may have held up to 10,000 persons at its peak. All the structures are gone now because they were made from organic materials like wood. What can be seen of the site was wrested from the jungle and a cow pasture by archaeologists. The site may have been first inhabited 3,000 years before Christ. The modern city dates from 900 to 1200 A.D. The civil engineers were impressed by several elements. "A wide roadway leads into the site," the association said in its award summary. "This roadway is made of multiple courses of rock pavement. The pavement still looks like we could walk on it today."  A.M.
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Overview of the explored part of the Guayabo siteAlso winning praise were the reservoirs that guarded the water flow for periods of scant rain. At the time the award was given more than a year ago, Costa Rican politicians mused about the modern problems of flooding and giant potholes and suggested that the country could learn some techniques from the early builders. Guayabo covers about 600 acres, but very little has been excavated scientifically. It is not unique. There are many such pre-Columbian sites, but none have been given the status of a national monument. About next March at the end of the dry or high season, if the past is any indication, Costa Ricans will be anxious awaiting the rain to clean the streets and to make the air fresh and cool. In the same way, they are grousing today about the heavy downpours, the flooding and the wet shoes. The early inhabitants of Central America also must have endured a rainy season and even hurricanes. But they, too, found rain to be very useful. One of the principal Mayan deities is Chac, who delivers the precious fluid. Better left unsaid is how one encouraged him to act. Archaeologists think that Mayan civilization collapsed because of a prolonged drought. The sun is pushing south and will cross that imaginary equator later tonight. The astronomical event is a promise of approaching December and the onset of the northern cold season and the dry season here. Folks in Turrialba got 52.4 millimeters, more than two inches, Monday afternoon, mainly at 4 p.m. The rain is heavier higher up the volcano. One can just imagine an earlier resident staring from his conical home in Guayabo wishing the rain would just stop so he could go hunting or tend the corn. And he was thankful for the constructions that carried the raging water away from his house foundation and dumped it safely downstream. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Corte Supreme de Justicia has come out against a legislative proposal to eliminate the use at trial of criminals who roll over on their associates. The lawmakers are studying changes in the Código Procesal Penal, the code that instructs lawyers and judges on how to try a case. In the United States, the concept is called turning state's witness. A criminal who informs and testifies on his associates is rewarded with a lesser sentence or perhaps none at all. The situation is current now because the chief witness |
against Miguel
Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría is José Antonio
Lobo, a
former official with the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad. He
has testified to participating in the bribery scheme and handling the
bulk of the money, yet he is not on trial. The possible legal change is being considered in the Comisión Permanente Especial de Seguridad y Narcotráfico. Jesús Ramírez Quirós, a court magistrate who has studied the proposal, said that he and other magistrates believe that eliminating this possibility would deprive prosecutors of a fundamental tool in the prosecution of crimes, particularly among organized crime groups. The magistrates urged lawmakers to reject the change. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Sala IV constitutional court has ordered the Instituto Nacional de Seguros to provide medical exams for about 2,000 persons who say they have been injured by a banana pesticide. If they are found to have been affected by the pesticide known as Nemagon they will receive compensation. So far the national insurance company has awarded compensation to about 10,000 persons. In an appeal filed by a former lawmaker, the court |
determined
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there are about 2,000 persons awaiting examinations. The court told the
insurance company to conduct the examinations immediately. Among other conditions, the pesticide, which had been used in the country for 30 years, causes sterility. The insurance institute has an entire office dedicated to handling the pesticide cases. There was no explanation why the institute stopped scheduling exams three months ago. Elsewhere, individuals have come forward to seek compensation even when they had not been involved in the banana operations. |
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Ms. Chinchilla is accompanied by Duncan Niederauer, chief
executive officer of the New York Exchange Stock. Dignitaries open and
close the exchange each day.Ms. Chinchilla promoting
country in New York visit By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
President Laura Chinchilla, in New York for the 65th General Assembly of the United Nations, had the honor of ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. The president used her visit to New York to promote investment in the country. She was accompanied by Anabel González, minister of Comercio Exterior, and others involved in promoting the country's products. She gave an optimistic economic report to a group of investors and told them that Costa Rica would reach its Millennium goals in 2015. Exports continue to improve but still lower than in 2008 By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The country exported $6.3 billion in goods and products in the first eight months of the year. That is a 9.8 percent increase over 2009, according to Promotora del Comercio Exterior, the country's promotional arm. Still the country has yet to surpass the exports that were registered in the same period of 2008, the agency said. August exports showed a 5.1 increase over the same month in 2009. The total was $746 million. The major importing nations showed a marked increase in their consumption, the result of improved economic conditions, said the agency. Exports to North America were up 16.6 percent and to the European Union some 11.3, it said. |
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