Watercolor works to grace
new issue of telephone cards
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The new Colibrí 197 and Viajera 199 telephone cards will carry
reproductions of Costa Rican watercolors, according to the Instituto
Costarricense de Electricidad, the communications monopoly.
Works from some 30 artists will be shown, as will their names and the
date of the work, said a release. The project, which will generate 3.2
million cards, is being done in conjunction with the Asociación
Costarricense de Acuarelistas.
Such telephone cards are now collectibles, and the first issue of the
30 works will be available for members of the association, collectors
and members of the public who ask for them at 220-9303 or
220-9544, said the company. A later issue of 60 works will be available
to the public, it added.
The works that are being used on the telephone cards will be exhibited
until Nov. 29 under the title “Costacuarela 2007” in the Centro
Cultural Costarricense Norteamericano in Los Yoses. The company plans
to mount a traveling exhibition, too, it said.
Petroleum product prices
are again headed upwards
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The price regulating agency has approved a five-colon increase in the
cost of super gasoline and an 8-colon increase for regular. Diesel will
go up 24 colons per liter.
The agency, the Authoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos,
said it was basing its calculations on the world price of $102 per
barrel of petroleum. Diesel is now 462 colons (88.7 U.S. cents) per
liter. It will go to 486
colons or 93.3 U.S. cents.
Similar increases were authorized for aviation gasoline, kerosene and
liquid gas. The increases, which will be published Thursday and
go into effect Friday, mean that a U.S. gallon of regular gas is $3.89
License bureaus in Limón,
Liberia are making a move
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The transport ministry said that license bureaus in Liberia and in
Limón will be closed today through Friday while the facilities
move to new locations.
The office in Liberia will move 5 kms. out of town toward the Daniel
Oduber airport next to the office of the Policía de
Tránsito, the ministry said. In Limón the Ministerio de
Obras Públicas y Transportes said the new location
is adjacent to the transit police there in the Sandoval section
in what was once the port captain's office. Both offices are supposed
to be open for business Monday.
Animal medicines need
approval by officials, too
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Medicine for animals goes out of date, too, and an agency in the
Ministerio de la Producción makes regular inspections checking
up on
pet shops and pharmacies for veterinarians.
Last week, the agency, the Servicio Nacional de Salud Animal,
destroyed more than 180 kilos (nearly 400 pounds) of suspect medicines
by burning them in an incinerator in Caldera. The agency does this
every two months.
Some of the medicine is out-of-date but other medications are not
registered for use here or lack the appropriate documentation or
labeling, said the agency.
Flooding hits Heredia communities
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
San Rafael, Heredia centro and Barva are bailing out after a Monday
afternoon downpour flooded homes and damaged bridges and other
infrastructure.
The national emergency commission said it opened a shelter in Guarari,
Heredia centro, for 12 persons who had been flooded out. There
also was damage in San Pablo where a slide closed a road. A
bridge at
Valencia on the Heredia road suffered damage, said the
commission. A pipe of the Empresa de Servicios Públicos de
Heredia will be replaced there today, and the highway is being reduced
by one lane to allow the work, said the transport ministry.
Other flooding took place in Barrio Corazón de
Jesús en la Uruca and in a nearby area where a blocked storm
sewer caused flooding in businesses and homes.
Visitors coming from Louisiana
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A trade mission from the U.S. State of Louisiana will visit Costa Rica
Nov. 15 and 16. Included is an insurance company, a construction
management service, two universities and the City of New Orleans
convention and visitors bureau. The U.S. Embassy staff is arranging
appointments.
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