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$624,000
patrol boat has arrived
By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
A 45-foot patrol boat promised to Costa Rica has arrived, and officials staged a welcome ceremony Thursday. The boat is valued at $549,000, and the U.S. government threw in $75,000 more in electronic gear. An additional $75,000 in similar electronic gear has been donated for another patrol boat. The boat is part of the lengthy war on drugs. It carries six crew members and can also carry eight passengers. There are sleeping quarters, showers and air conditioning. The boat will be used on the Caribbean side of the country. It is part of a donation of equipment from the United States that has been valued at $30 million. Included were tents now being used by Haitian migrants. The United States said that yet a third boat is expected to arrive next year. Light-fingered police are on video By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
Two policemen responding a crime at an Escazú electronics store decided to try a little larceny themselves, according to the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública. The police officers appeared to not realize they were being taped by a security camera while they were alone in the Gollo in Guachipelín Wednesday morning. The video of their presumed crime made all the television news shows. The pair are seen going to a storage closet and removing what appeared to be an electronic tablet and boxes that may have contained cell telephones. Gustavo Mata, the security minister, said that steps are being taken to fire the police officers. They have 10 and seven years service in the police force. Turrialba continues to put on a show By the A.M.
Costa Rica staff
The Turrialba volcano continues to emit ash, and scientists are detecting small earthquakes within the mountain caused by fluids, gas and magma passing through the rocks. The volcano sent ash 1,000 meters into the air, about 4,340 feet above sea level, at 8:06 p.m., said the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica at Universidad Nacional. The wind was carrying the ash to the southeast toward Aquiares, Pacayas and Juan Viñas, where residents reported a sulfur smell. In the past most of the winds were to the west or southwest. An eruption Thursday morning produced a column of ash about 500 meters high and was followed by yet another eruption that threw ash even higher, said the Observatorio. During the daytime, the smell of sulfur was reported in Lagunilla de Heredia and Heredia, the Observatorio said. Our
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Control the money, not
term lengthsDear A.M. Costa Rica: While I share the frustration expressed by David Rogers and Henry Kantrowitz about the roles played by big money and big corporate interests in U.S. politics at all levels, I disagree with their sentiment in favor of term limits. Term limits are a simplistic approach to a complex problem. The issues that elected officials at all levels face are incredibly intricate and to think that a newcomer can grasp all those intricacies in a term or two is unrealistic. It takes a newly elected congressperson most of a first term just to learn his or her way around the Capitol and to find the restrooms. Expecting them to also become expert in complex policy matters on a worldwide stage just isn’t reasonable. The effect of institutionalizing superficial knowledge of these complex issues would be to leave important policy making decisions to two parties we cannot always trust, lobbyists and bureaucrats. What’s more, by limiting terms, the pool of available candidates is automatically limited to those who can afford to take a few years off from their careers to serve. Who can do that? Attorneys, corporate executives, and the independently wealthy can, but what of the the man in the street? How many of us have ever worked at a job we could walk away from for a few years and then expect to return to where we left off? How many self-employed people could do the same? No, the answer to cleaning up the legislative branches at the federal and state levels is to restrict or eliminate the influence of big money. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United which opened the doors to unlimited political spending was based upon good legal scholarship, but the impact on the political system was devastating and must be remedied. If we remove the corrupting influence of these vast and unaccounted for monies, legislators will be less susceptible to undue influence and also able to become sufficiently knowledgeable about critical policy matters to make good decisions. David C. Murray
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| Environmental
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
An environmental organization said it has presented a claim of unconstitutionality against a law designed to give residents in the maritime zone a two-year breathing space before their homes were destroyed. The Federación Ecologista Costarricense said Thursday it had just presented the case to the Sala IV constitutional court. The government proposed the delay on evictions in order to give time to lawmakers to draft new regulations for the maritime zone. This is the 200 meters of land that borders the oceans and some waterways in Costa Rica. Development there is restricted, but many homes were built there before the original law was passed. |
The Federación Ecologista Costarricense said that the law
damages the nation’s holdings. The law No. 8373 violates the constitutional protection of the public domain as well as the right to a safe and ecologically balanced environment, said the filing, according to Mauricio Álvarez, president of the federation. The federation statement calls the occupants of the zone illegals and said the moratorium on eviction is equivalent to authorizing those on the property to violate the law for two years. During that period the state and public entities are unable to intervene to defend and recover public property, said the federation, citing information in the legal filing. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Another sure sign of Christmas is the announcement expected next week of the Gordo Navideño 2016, the big Yule lottery. Last year there were four top prizes, each of 1.4 billion colons tax free. That is about $2.6 million for each of the four top winners. And there are thousands of lesser prizes. Winning is a super long-shot. The top ticket needs to show the correct three-digit series and the correct two-digit lottery number. That’s nearly a one in 100,000 possibility of winning. Even those who do not play the lottery usually buy a ticket or a fraction of a ticket so they can sit in front of the television one Sunday night and watch the balls jump around in rotating cages. The excitement generated by watching the drawing certainly can be worth the price of the ticket. Last year, the full Christmas lottery ticket of 40 fractions sold for 70,000 colons, about $130 then. Even the holder of a single fraction of the winning ticket got 35 million colons or about $65,000. |
This is
a national ritual with some neighborhoods chipping in to
buy full tickets. Sometimes they win, and the
Spanish-language newspapers feature them. Any U.S. expat who plays and wins the lottery is supposed to remit a chunk of the money to Uncle Sam because the country taxes global incomes. Ironically a lottery win can ruin lives because most of the winners do not know how to handle large sums. But the Junta de Protection Social, the lottery agency sure does. Typically the agency will get about a third of what the public pays for tickets after distributing prizes and salaries to vendors. The final beneficiaries are a host of charities that depend on the Junta for income. Expats also should be wary of fake lottery tickets. They show up every Christmas season. And the vendor has been known to hike up the cost of the tickets as the drawing approaches. The Junta stages a lottery drawing each Sunday. Usually the prizes and the price of the tickets are much smaller. A typical full sheet of 10 tickets can sell for 12,000 colons. |
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A press advocacy group and Google has created a partnership to prevent denial of service attacks on news media Web sites. These attacks flood servers and put the display of Web site material out of service. The advocacy organization, the Inter American Press Association, said that these attacks are used as a tool of repressive censorship. The organization is encouraging the adoption of Project Shield, a free service developed by Jigsaw that uses Google technology and Google's infrastructure to protect news sites and free expression from denial of service attacks throughout Latin America. The objective of the partnership is to ensure that all Inter American Press Association member organizations are protected. The Project Shield service from Jigsaw is available to independent publishers of all sizes as well as human rights organizations and election monitoring groups, all of which are frequent targets of denial of service attacks, said the press group. The attacks are considered one of the most pernicious forms of digital censorship in the 21st century, and are increasing at an alarming rate, it added. News publishers are especially at risk of being targeted by attacks to take down their sites for political, economic or personal reasons. Attacks have taken down publishers large and small, from TechCrunch and Página12 to the BBC. According to a Neustar report, the odds of getting attacked are 50 percent, and once a site has been attacked, there's an 80 percent chance it will be attacked again. It's estimated that 50 percent of media sites have already been hit. |
"IAPA has
been in the frontline of the defense of Freedom of
Expression since it was created," said Pierre Manigault,
president of the Inter American Press Association, during
the organization's General Assembly in Mexico City. "As
news consumption has gone increasingly digital, there is
worrisome evidence that new ways of censorship are growing
which could limit publishers' ability to deliver news,
opinion and analysis to an ever growing number of news
consumers in the Americas. Through this partnership, we
hope to offer blanket protection from DDoS attacks to
publishers large and small throughout the region." Project Shield was created by Jigsaw, an incubator within Alphabet, Google's parent company. The free service was launched in early 2016 as a way to defend the world's news organizations from denial of service attacks, and it is part of Jigsaw's broader goal of ending repressive censorship online. Project Shield is free for qualified organizations. "We are thrilled to announce this new partnership with IAPA as a way to protect news organizations throughout Latin America," said George Conard, the Jigsaw product manager who leads the Project Shield team. "Our goal is to end repressive online censorship, and defending publishers against DDoS attacks is a crucial step toward eliminating DDoS as a threat to free expression." Project Shield uses a multi-layer defense system and is built on Google's sophisticated infrastructure to protect against the full range of attacks, large and small, multi-vector and single vector. Put simply, Project Shield uses Google's own defenses and network capacity to protect news sites from attacks. |
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basically said to be his fault By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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To say that Donald Trump has a rocky relationship with the media is a massive understatement. For months, he's barred certain reporters and media outlets from his rallies. He's threatened to open up libel laws so that he could have an easier time suing news organizations he sees as dishonest. Emboldened by his fiery invectives against the media, his supporters regularly scream obscenities at journalists during his rallies, in one case even prompting the Secret Service to intervene to protect one reporter. Trump's conflict with the media continued Thursday, with the Republican presidential nominee threatening to sue The New York Times over a story in which two women accused him of inappropriate physical contact. The story was one of several that came out this week accusing Trump of making unwanted sexual advances. In a speech in Florida, Trump slammed the reports as a concerted, coordinated and vicious attack by the corporate media, which he said were controlled by his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. "The corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism," Trump said. "They're a political special interest no different from any lobbyist or financial entity with a total political agenda. "And their agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy. For them, it's a war and for them, nothing at all is out of bounds," he said. Though Trump denies the allegations of sexual misconduct, that hasn't kept them from receiving almost non-stop media coverage for much of the past week. That's in part because the accusations came just days after Trump was seen in a leaked 2005 video bragging about his ability to get away with sexual assault. The groping allegations are far from the only Trump-related controversy to receive media attention recently. In the past two-and-a-half weeks, news outlets have been filled with stories on Trump's refusal to release his tax returns, his public bickering with a former Miss Universe, possible violations of charity laws by his Trump Foundation, and his fallout with Republican Party lawmakers. Viewed together, it constitutes a stunning barrage of negative news coverage aimed at a presidential candidate, just weeks before the November election. There have been news cycles dominated by Clinton controversies. Most of that coverage has focused on Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email account, her alleged inaction during the deadly 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya, and inappropriate overlap between the Clinton Foundation and her former employers at the State Department. But the coverage, at least on major news outlets, is seemingly unequal, and the disparity is making some media analysts uncomfortable, at least in particular instances. "I think what's happening is that some journalists and news organizations think Trump is such an unusual and threatening candidate that they feel they have the right to bend or alter their ethical obligations," said John Watson, professor of journalism ethics at George Washington University. In Watson's view, it's a mistake for journalists to view Trump as an existential threat to democracy, and therefore break the rules of even-handedness. But at the same time, he says Trump "warrants greater news coverage because what he says and does is very often more newsworthy." In other words, whereas it may seem that the media are biased in favor of Mrs. Clinton, it only appears that way because she hasn't "said or done as much horrible stuff as Donald Trump has," according to Watson. Robert Drechsel, the recently retired director of the University of Wisconsin's Center for Journalism Ethics, agrees that the negative coverage has much more to do with the unusual nature of Trump's candidacy than any left-wing media conspiracy. "Anyone who has been involved in media work would very quickly realize that that is not the way things work," Drechsel said. "It's something largely of his own making. It's just that Donald Trump has done and said so many things that have invited so much scrutiny that they tend to dominate the news coverage." And dominating the news coverage is a strategy that Trump himself has embraced, at times explicitly. In his 1987 book “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” Trump acknowledged that he sometimes behaves in an outrageous or controversial manner in order to attract media attention. "From a pure business point of view, the benefits of being written about have far outweighed the drawbacks," Trump says in the book. That media strategy appears to have worked for Trump this election up to a point. During the primary election, Trump was largely seen as having benefited from the extra media attention, in part because his unorthodox stances appealed to his hardcore base of supporters and helped him stand out among his 16 Republican rivals. But during the general election, when Trump has faced just one major opponent and has needed to appeal to a larger and more diverse voter base, the extra scrutiny appears to have hurt him. After the latest barrage of negative stories, Trump now finds himself down more than six points in a two-way race with Clinton, according to a polling average compiled by RealClearPolitics. It could get worse. For instance, if more women come forward to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct or if, as rumored, additional tapes are released showing Trump making lewd comments. If that happens, journalists will have the responsibility to report the facts, whether or not it is seen as fair, says Aly Colon, professor of media ethics at Washington and Lee University. "The truth needs to be the priority in all these instances," he said. "They need to hold both of these candidates accountable for what they say, what they've said, and what they propose. And then the candidates have to answer that and deal with that themselves." Bits of glass show meteorite hit as a warm period began By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Droplets of glass dug up in New Jersey and from the Atlantic seabed indicate a comet or some other extraterrestrial object may have smacked Earth 56 million years ago, roughly 10 million years after the asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs. Scientists said Thursday the collision may have triggered a particularly warm, ice-free period on Earth when important mammalian groups, including the primate lineage that led to humans, appeared for the first time. The findings, published in the journal Science, marked the latest evidence of the profound influence that past impacts by celestial bodies have had on life on Earth. The tiny spherical bits of dark glass, called microtektites, represent strong evidence of a collision with a comet or asteroid, the researchers said. They form when a space rock hits Earth's surface and vaporizes the spot where it lands, ejecting into the air bits of molten rock that solidify into glass. The microtektites were excavated from a geological layer marking the start of the Eocene Epoch about 56 million years ago from three sites in southern New Jersey, Millville, Wilson Lake and Medford, and an underwater site east of Florida. That coincided with the beginning of a warming event, called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, associated with an accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide. It lasted more than 100,000 years and drove up global temperatures about 9 to 14 degrees F (5 to 8 degrees C). The impact of an asteroid about six miles wide (10 km) off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 10 million years earlier killed off many marine and terrestrial creatures including the dinosaurs, and enabled mammals to gain supremacy. No such mass extinction was associated with the event 56 million years ago, although many single-celled ocean-bottom creatures disappeared. During the warming period, primates and two mammal groups, one that includes deer, antelope, sheep and goats and another that includes horses and rhinos, first appear in the fossil record. The researchers said they have not found the location of an impact crater linked to the collision. They said geological evidence suggested the object was a comet. "We can't really say where it was, or how big, at this point," said geochemist Morgan Schaller of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who led the study. While the findings are not proof that the impact caused the warming period, they are a rather dramatic finding in support of an impact trigger for the climate changes, said planetary scientist Dennis Kent of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Rutgers University. Calculations show universe contains trillions of galaxies By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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It appears that scientists had underestimated the magnitude of the universe. An international team of astronomers reported Thursday that the universe might be 10, or even 20, times larger than previously thought, containing as many as 1 trillion or even 2 trillion galaxies. An astrophysics professor at the University of Nottingham in England led the team that came up with the mind-boggling estimate of 2 trillion galaxies in the universe. Professor Christopher Conselice said that represents a minimum tenfold increase. The scientists based their updated galaxy count on deep-space surveys by the Hubble Space Telescope and ground observatories, which they turned into 3-D images and studied using new mathematical models. “It boggles the mind that over 90 percent of the galaxies in the universe have yet to be studied,” Conselice said in a statement. “Who knows what interesting properties we will find when we discover these galaxies with future generations of telescopes?' Scientists have puzzled over how many galaxies the cosmos harbors at least since American astronomer Edwin Hubble showed in 1924 that Andromeda, a neighboring galaxy, was not part of our own Milky Way. Nicole weakens after hitting Bermuda as a full hurricane By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Hurricane Nicole weakened late Thursday as it moved into the open ocean after making a direct hit on Bermuda. Nicole slammed into the British territory as a Category 3 hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 180 kilometers per hour (120 miles per hour), the U.S.-based National Hurricane Center said. Nicole caused serious damage to the island’s infrastructure, causing walls and roads to collapse, tearing roofs off buildings, ripping up trees, smashing boats against rocks, and flooding numerous homes and roads, the Royal Gazette newspaper reported late Thursday. More than 27,000 customers were without power. There were no reports of deaths or injuries. By late afternoon, the storm was about 210 kilometers (130 miles) northeast of Bermuda. In Nicole’s aftermath, government officials inspected bridges and other structures. The Royal Bermuda Regiment removed uprooted trees and other debris from roads. Cleanup efforts were expected to continue until early today, and the island’s airport planned to reopen by then. Schools were scheduled to stay closed until Monday. Bob Dylan is surprise winner of Nobel Prize for literature By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Legendary American musician Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel prize in literature, the first songwriter to receive the prestigious award. The Swedish Academy, which makes the annual decision on who will win the Nobel Literature Prize, said Dylan was honored "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." Throngs of people who had gathered for the announcement in Stockholm, Sweden, reacted with a loud cheer when Dylan's name was read. He had been mentioned as a possible Nobel prize winner in past years but was not seen as a serious contender. Sara Danius, permanent secretary at the Swedish Academy said Dylan "is a great poet in the English-speaking tradition". "His repertoire stretches from folk songs in the Appalachians, delta blues in the south, all the way to Rimbaud, of French modernism. And he handles this heritage in this absolutely original way. No one has ever done anything like him," she added. Dylan is the first American to win the Nobel literature prize since Toni Morrison received the award in 1993. The 75-year-old singer and songwriter, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, launched his music career in 1959 by performing in coffee houses in the midwestern state of Minnesota. Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota on May 24, 1941 and raised in a Jewish middle-class family. He taught himself to play the guitar, harmonica and piano. Dylan's best known works are from the 1960's, when songs like 'Blowin in the Wind' became anthems for the anti-Vietnam war and civil rights movements. He also won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his contributions to music and American culture. His 1965 classic "Like a Rolling Stone" was named the greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. "No other pop song has so thoroughly challenged and transformed the commercial laws and artistic conventions of its time, for all time," the magazine said. Dylan will receive $906,000 in prize money for the literature award. There are a total six Nobel laureates, each of whom will receive a gold medal and a diploma at a formal ceremony in Stockholm Dec. 10. Miami neighborhood reported to harbor zika mosquitoes By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Florida officials have identified a small neighborhood in Miami that contains mosquitoes that have spread the zika virus to humans. The area spans about 2.6 square kilometers in the northwestern part of the city. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday that two women and three men have been infected by the virus in the neighborhood. Zika infections have been reported in more than 1,020 people in Florida. Most caught it while traveling outside the U.S., but 155 cases are not travel related. This summer, Florida became the first state in the continental United States to report the local spread of zika when a cluster of cases was discovered in the arts district of Wynwood, north of downtown. That area has since been declared clear of any mosquitoes that might be spreading zika, and health authorities have credited aerial insecticide spraying for eliminating the infected mosquitoes. |
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Santos extends Colombia ceasefire By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday he agreed to extend a cease-fire deal with a Marxist rebel group in the country in hopes of reviving a failed peace accord. The original cease-fire agreement between the Colombian government and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia was due to expire at the end of October, but will now extend through the end of the year. "I have made the decision to extend the bilateral cease-fire until Dec. 31. Let this be clear: This is not an ultimatum nor a deadline, but I hope that the entire process of obtaining a new agreement will be complete well before then," Santos said in a televised address. The announcement of the cease-fire extension came shortly after Santos met with demonstrators who have been protesting in Bogotá demanding the government move forward with the peace accord despite its rejection by voters. Voters narrowly rejected the deal with 50.2 against, or by a margin of just 54,000 votes. The result came as a shock to Colombian leaders as public opinion polls leading up to the vote forecast the referendum would pass by a two-to-one margin. Many "no" voters were genuinely offended that nearly all rebels will avoid prison time for crimes allegedly committed during the uprising and get various financial support from the government. Two tropical diseases being eliminated By the A.M. Costa Rica wire
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By the year 2020, two neglected tropical diseases, lymphatic filariasis, commonly known as elephantiasis, and trachoma, a blinding illness, may be eliminated in the world’s poorest countries, thanks to a partnership of governments, charitable foundations and pharmaceutical companies. The U.S. provides the most funding for elimination of neglected tropical diseases, through the U.S. Agency for International Development. That funding, between 2006 and today, has provided 1.6 billion treatments in about 30 countries. “In the areas that USAID has supported,” Emily Wainwright said, “there are going to be 400 million people who don’t have to worry about getting lymphatic filariasis again. We will have addressed that problem. And there will be about 184 million people who aren’t going to have to worry about getting trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness.” She is program coordinator for neglected tropical diseases. According to the World Health Organization, neglected tropical diseases affect an estimated 1.5 billion people in the poorest countries. Other diseases that are targeted for elimination include onchocerciasis, known as river blindness, schistosomiasis or snail fever, which causes intestinal and urogenital infections, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, a systemic illness that causes diarrhea, fever, fatigue and malnutrition. Children are disproportionately affected by the parasitic and bacterial illnesses, which stunt growth and affect brain development. Recently, World Health released data showing that in 2015, 979 million people received preventive chemotherapy for neglected tropical diseases, an increase of 121 million from 2014. USAID’s Neglected Tropical Disease Program and World Health have put a priority on eliminating 17 diseases in 149 countries, where one in six people suffer from at least one of the illnesses. |
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| From Page 7: Trade office opened in Seoul for Tico exporters By the A.M. Costa Rica
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The nation’s promotional arm has opened a commercial office in Seoul, Korea. This is the 41st office worldwide for Promotora del Comercio Exterior de Costa Rica. The announcement coincides with a visit to the Asian country by President Luis Guillermo Solís. The promotional agency also is trying to increase recognition of its Esencial Costa Rica trademark. Alexander Mora, minister of Comercio Exterior, said the trade office would give Costa Rican exporters more opportunities in the sophisticated Korean marketplace. The country is negotiating a free-trade agreement with Korea. San Pablo, Moravia face water cutoffs today By the A.M. Costa Rica
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Those who live in Moravia and San Pablo de Heredia might lose water service today. The state water company, the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados, said it would be maintaining one of its water plants in Moravia starting at 8 a.m. and this could affect the water supply. About 18,000 persons are involved, it said. In San Pablo the interruption is expected to begin at 7 a.m. There electrical work at two well locations will last until 4 p.m., said the company, which estimated that 19,500 people will be affected. |
