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José, Costa Rica, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015, Vol. 16, No. 227
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Espinoza is
judicial investigating candidate
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Six persons have been recommended to be the next director of the Judicial Investigating Organization. One is a prosecutor whose name will resonate with some expats. He is Walter Espinoza, who was the prosecutor in the Villalobos high interest case. Espinoza successfully prosecuted Oswaldo Villalobos in an aggravated fraud trial. Consequently, he was not held in high regard by those Villalobos investors who thought the government was prosecuting the brothers, who operated money exchange houses and a Mall San Pedro location where Luis Enrique Villalobos Camacho paid up to 3 percent a month to creditors. Luis Enrique Villalobos fled in 2002 and has not been heard from since. Espinoza and other prosecutors claimed that the brothers operated a ponzi scheme. Since the 2007 Oswaldo Villalobos trial Espinoza has been an organized crime prosecutor. The Corte Surpema de Justicia will make the final selection. Some 51 put their names forward as candidates, and the nominating commission interviewed 13 and selected the six. Water outage for Escazú and points west By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
If you live in San Rafael de Escazú or points west, this is why there may not be water in the tap this morning. The Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados said that its crews were repairing nearly a kilometer of line from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The locations involved are as far west as Piedades and Ciudad Colón said the company. Hospital CIMA, Multiplaza, Avenida Escazú and Guachipilín were included in the outage, as well as Santa Ana. Some of the western locations may not experience an outage of water if the demand to the east is not too high, said the company. Former justice ministers meet on prisons By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The justice minister assembled a meeting Monday of former justice ministers to hear their views on prison overcrowding. A summary said that among them was Elizabeth Odio Benito, who is now designated as a judge for the Interamerican Court of Human Rights. Also there was José Miguel Villalobos Umaña, who as minister under Abel Pacheco, opposed the construction of a new maximum security prison. The justice minister, Cecilia Sánchez Romero, is facing a political problem with plans to release hundreds of inmates before the end of their sentences. The Ministerio de Justicia y Paz, which runs the prisons, is under court order to reduce the numbers of inmate. However, the proposals are opposed by some lawmakers and some in the public in general. The discussion ranged from the flagrancy courts to preventative detention, according to a summary provided by the ministry.  Lancaster University
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Stimulating
a key produces a unique pattern that can be used for
authentication or identification purposes while being unclonable. New
security said to be unbreakable
By the Lancaster University news staff
Scientists have discovered a way to authenticate or identify any object by generating an unbreakable ID based on atoms. The technology, which is being patented at Lancaster University and commercialized through the spin-out company Quantum Base, uses next-generation nanomaterials to enable the unique identification of any product with guaranteed security. The research published in Nature’s Scientific Reports uses atomic-scale imperfections that are impossible to clone as they comprise the unmanipulable building blocks of matter. First author Jonathan Roberts, a Lancaster University physics doctoral student, said: “The invention involves the creation of devices with unique identities on a nano-scale employing state-of-art quantum technology. Each device we’ve made is unique, 100 percent secure and impossible to copy or clone.” Current authentication solutions such as anti-counterfeit tags or password-protection base their security on replication difficulty or on secrecy and are renowned for being insecure and relatively easy to forge. For example, current anti-counterfeiting technology such as holograms can be imitated, and passwords can be stolen, hacked and intercepted. The ground-breaking atomic-scale devices do not require passwords and are impervious to cloning, making them the most secure system ever made. Coupled with the fact that they can be incorporated into any material makes them an ideal candidate to replace existing authentication technologies. Writing in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the researchers said: “Simulating these structures requires vast computing power and is not achievable in a reasonable timescale, even with a quantum computer. When coupled with the fact that the underlying structure is unknown, unless dismantled atom-by-atom, this makes simulation extremely difficult. The reported Q-ID device, which uses an electronic measurement, can easily be integrated into existing chip manufacturing processes, enabling cost effective mass-production. The new devices also have many additional features such as the ability to track and trace a product throughout the supply chain, and individual addressability, allowing for marketing and quality control at the point of consumption. Robert Young, the research leader at Lancaster University and co-founder of Quantum Base said: “One could imagine our devices being used to identify a broad range of products, whether it is authentication of branded goods, SIM cards, important manufacturing components, the possibilities are endless.” The use of inexpensive nanomaterials and their ability to be produced in large quantities has resulted in smaller, more power efficient devices that are future-proof to cloning. |
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| El Niño in Pacific is getting stronger, U.N. weather
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
El Niño is expected to continue to strengthen and go down in the history books as one of the strongest ever, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The U.N. agency said that a mature and strong El Niño event is contributing to extreme weather patterns, and it is expected to strengthen further by the end of the year. The Geneva-based organization released its assessment on the eve of an international El Niño conference in New York. The weather phenomenon has brought drought to Guanacaste and much of the Pacific coast. Peak three-month average surface water temperatures in the east-central tropical Pacific Ocean will exceed 2 degrees C above normal, placing this El Niño event among the three |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Expats may be surprised to know that the Colegio de Periodistas takes a small bite out of newspaper and television advertising. That has been well known in advertising circles because the organization receives 1 percent of the cost of advertising in La Nación, El Grupo Extra, Televisora de Costa Rica, Repretel and Canal 9. But the current amount was not enough, and the professional organization had to cut back. It also said that it met with publishers and producers to make sure the organization was getting all the money to which it was entitled. |
The colegio
said that income from the advertising began to decline in 2014 and
continued through this year. An Internet announcement lamented the fact that the situation has been the subject of rumors on the social media and said that the colegio is able to make its payroll and pay its bills. At one time membership in the colegio was obligatory for newspeople in Costa Rica. This was established by law. But an expat newsman challenged the requirement all the way to the Interamerican Court of Human Rights and won. A.M. Costa Rica does not collect the tax on its advertising or are its staffers members of the colegio. |
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| Coffee study suggests drinking daily lowers some risks of
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By the American Heart Association news staff
Drinking a second or third cup of coffee may do more than get someone through a long day. It may also reduce your risk of death from heart disease and other illnesses. In a study reported in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, people who regularly drank moderate amounts of coffee daily, less than 5 cups per day, experienced a lower risk of deaths from cardiovascular disease, neurological diseases, Type 2 diabetes and suicide. The benefit held true for drinking caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee, suggesting it’s not just the caffeine providing health perks but possibly the naturally occurring chemical compounds in the coffee beans. “Bioactive compounds in coffee reduce insulin resistance and systematic inflammation,” said Ming Ding, the study’s first author and doctoral student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. “They might be responsible for the inverse association between coffee and mortality. However, more studies are needed to investigate the biological mechanisms producing these effects.” The findings are based on data from three large ongoing studies: 74,890 women in the Nurses’ Health Study, 93,054 women in the Nurses’ Health Study 2, and 40,557 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Researchers assessed coffee drinking every four years using validated food questionnaires and followed participants for up to 30 years. During the follow-up period, 19,524 women and 12,432 men died from a range of causes. In general, people who frequently drank coffee were more likely to smoke and drink alcohol. To separate the effects of coffee from smoking, researchers repeated their analysis among never-smokers, and found that the protective benefits of coffee on deaths became even more evident. “Regular consumption of coffee can be included as part of a healthy, balanced diet,” said senior author Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard. “However, certain populations such as pregnant women and children should be cautious about high caffeine intake from coffee or other beverages.” The study was not designed to show a direct cause and |
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Benefit may be from the chemical compounds in coffee.effect
relationship between coffee consumption and dying from illness. So the
findings should be interpreted with caution, researchers said. One
potential drawback of the study design was that participants were asked
to report how much coffee they drank. However researchers found the
assessment to be reliable.
Previous studies found inconsistent associations between coffee drinking and risk of total and cause-specific death. This study adds to the literature that moderate coffee consumption may confer health benefits. However, more research is needed to determine how coffee affects the body and whether different types of coffee may play a role. |
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Obama to honor legends with Medal of Freedom By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
U.S. President Barack Obama has named 17 people to receive the Medal of Freedom, including politicians, baseball legends and entertainment stars. Obama said Monday he will present the medals, the nation's highest civilian honor, to those who "helped define our shared experience as Americans" at the White House Nov. 24. The honorees include baseball players Willie Mays and the late Yogi Berra. Recipients from the entertainment industry include film director Steven Spielberg, conductor Itzhak Perlman and theater composer Stephen Sondheim. Several singers are among the honorees, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, and Gloria and Emilio Estefan. The politicians being honored include Sen. Barbara Mikulski from Maryland, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency William Ruckelshaus, former Indiana congressman Lee Hamilton, and the first African American congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm. The others to be honored are veterans advocate Bonnie Carroll, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, Indian tribal advocate Billy Frank, and civil rights leader Minoru Yasui. Frank and Yasui, along with Berra and Chisholm, will receive the award posthumously. The White House said Monday the awards are presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. President Obama said, “I look forward to presenting these 17 distinguished Americans with our nation’s highest civilian honor. From public servants who helped us meet defining challenges of our time to artists who expanded our imaginations, from leaders who have made our union more perfect to athletes who have inspired millions of fans, these men and women have enriched our lives and helped define our shared experience as Americans.” Youth promote the goals of World Bank on climate By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Hundreds of young people from around the world gathered Monday at the World Bank in Washington to focus on their role in the fight against climate change, as world leaders prepare to meet in France later this month for the COP21 U.N. conference of the Parties, the annual meeting of all countries that want to take action for the climate. Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group vice president and special envoy for climate change, told the crowd of young people their actions do make a difference. “One of us, two of us, five of us and 10 of us all deciding to demand different actions at the state, local, city, country level makes a difference," she said. "The purchasing decisions we make in terms of food and electricity make a difference. This might seem like a global existential treat, but it’s actually about the footprint we all put on the planet and the way in which our governments represent the way young people think about it.” Ms. Kyte says while most survey data show that people understand the world has to reduce the amounts of carbon pollution in the atmosphere in order to be able to have better oceans, fields, food and safe water, there still are a few skeptics. “In America for all kinds of reasons it’s become a partisan issue and there’s a lot of misinformation out there,” she said, but “the farmers of California, Colorado, the Dakotas; the people of the Great Lakes, Staten Island, Florida, North Carolina, Maine, Galveston, Texas all understand the natural disasters and the weather patterns they are seeing shift are coming from something which isn’t just sporadic and that’s focusing people’s attention more on the issue.” Kyte said one can’t change everybody’s mind, but that with a working majority change will happen, and young people are the key. Participant Raddhima Yadav is an undergraduate student at Yale University. She has been involved with the U.N. climate talks as a youth delegate in the past five years. She said the key issue that many political leaders seem to miss is that climate change is interconnected to every other issue in a political agenda. She also said the narrative needs to be shaped not as climate change being some catastrophe or an apocalyptic scenario, which can put people off. She argued it would be better to make it more relatable to people’s daily lives, making it about gender, education, employment, water, issues that affect people’s daily lives. Derrick Opio Hosea, another participant, is the founder of one lamp express and is from Uganda. He said 85 percent of people in his country use kerosene lamps because they don’t have access to the grid, but about 80 percent of the same people have access to mobile phones. His company enables everyone with a mobile phone to order a solar lamp and get it delivered to their doorstep. They’ve managed to sell 4,000 solar lights and have reached more than 12,000 homes and reduced the amount of carbon emissions from kerosene lamps. Youth Summit Chairwoman Ines Gonzalez Del Mazo said the two-day event will include a competition. They received 330 proposals from more than 70 countries. Six finalists will pitch their ideas, which she hopes can be turned into businesses or shape policies. The winners will be sent to New York’s International Council of Small Businesses Annual Academy for training and mentorship. Team Helios led by Michael Eschmann has four members from Seattle, Canada, Austria and Switzerland. The group of friends who went to grad school in the U.S. teamed up to help farmers in India get away from diesel powered irrigation pumps that contribute to carbon emissions and high diesel fuel costs. Instead, the team proposes to allow farmers to rent solar irrigation systems and receive incentives for efficient water use. Sebastian Rodriguez is from Mexico and is the leader of Team Kopagas, which includes a Tanzanian and a Chinese national living in Tanzania. The group will present a pay-as-you-go model using electric canisters to accelerate the use of liquefied petroleum gas rather than charcoal and wood. Rodriguez said cooking with charcoal is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes per hour, therefore creating serious health issues. He said the team has a blueprint for a leasable canister that can monitor the amount of gas remaining and only charge customers for what is used. They’ve recently secured a $250,000 grant and hope that winning this competition will push their project forward. Ginny Wang is from China. Her team of four includes her friends from Taiwan, Britain and China. They are working on a project called Team Greenie Exchange as a way to give incentives to people. They hope to participate in the reduction of the carbon footprint by earning positive rewards. She said most of the time we hear about what governments can’t do, but she wants to encourage people to do what is right and take simple steps by riding a bicycle, for example, instead of driving. That can reduce one’s carbon footprint. Users can take actions such as join a carbon reduction program, carpool or recycle to earn green coins which are credited to a user’s electronic wallet and can be spent at partnering businesses, according to the proposal. Republicans ask president to reject Syrian refugees By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Returning to Capitol Hill Monday, many U.S. lawmakers said the political landscape has been altered by Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. "Paris changes everything,” said Michael McCaul, House Homeland Security committee chairman and a Republican. McCaul sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to halt the admission of Syrian refugees into the United States after one of the Paris attackers was found to have posed as a refugee. McCaul wrote: “In light of the terrorist attack in Paris, I call on you to temporarily suspend the admission of all additional Syrian refugees into the United States pending a full review of the Syrian Refugee resettlement program.” Other Republican lawmakers joined in criticism of Obama's refugee proposal. Sen. Jeff Sessions rejected Obama administration plans to welcome more Syrian refugees, saying: “It cannot be the solution to instability in the Middle East that everybody abandon their home and flee to Europe or the United States. This cannot be," he said. "The United States should help refugees, as are other nations. I think we should have a determined policy to create in Syria and nearby safe zones where these refugees, if they feel they have to flee, can stay. Many of them are not classic refugees. They seem to be more economic migrants than refugees. Many, many young males, not families.” Obama said the United States would betray its core values if it refuses to accept Syrian refugees, and said it is shameful to impose a religious test to only admit Christian refugees as some Republicans have advocated. Democratic House Ranking member Eliot Engel, ranking Democratic House member agreed, saying that Syrian refugees should be properly vetted, but the U.S. should not slam the door on them. Engel likened the impact of the Paris attacks for France to the life-changing Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Engel said that Islamic State terrorists are not true worshippers of any religion, but fascists. A number of Republican lawmakers called on new House Speaker Paul Ryan to make sure there is no funding for Syrian refugees in a spending bill that has to be passed by Dec. 11. Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is introducing legislation to halt visas for refugees. The Paris attacks and an Islamic State video threatening an attack on Washington, D.C., seemed to have put lawmakers on edge. U.S. Capitol Police said there is no specific information of a threat to the Capitol, but encouraged lawmakers and aides to be vigilant, saying it is always an appealing target for terrorists. Capitol police urged lawmakers to use tunnels to walk back and forth between their offices and the Capitol out of an abundance of caution. The House Foreign Affairs and Judiciary Committees plan to hold hearings this week to focus on the U.S. response to the Paris attacks. Obama sticks to his plan for limited involvement By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
President Barack Obama says it would be a mistake to deploy ground forces to defeat Islamic State militants, resisting calls at home and abroad for a more forceful U.S. strategy in the wake of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. Capping the two-day G-20 summit in this Mediterranean resort, the U.S. leader held a news conference at which he called the Islamic State terrorist group the face of evil and said there would be an intensification of efforts but not a new strategy. Obama said the Paris attacks were a terrible and sickening setback in the fight against the Islamic State, but he ruled out deploying large numbers of U.S. ground troops. “It is not just my view but the view of my closest military and civilian advisers that that would be a mistake.” Obama indicated he wants to avoid a repeat of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. “Not because our military could not march into Mosul or Raqqa or Ramadi and temporarily clear out ISIL, but because we would see a repetition of what we have seen before,” he said. But Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a member of the president’s own party, expressed grave concerns on U.S. television Monday about the current strategy in Iraq. “I have never been more concerned. I read the intelligence faithfully. ISIL is not contained. ISIL is expanding. They've just put out a video saying it is their intent to attack this country.” Sen. Feinstein said it is clear that limited air strikes and support for Iraqi forces are not “sufficient to protect our country and our allies.” She said she hopes France will pursue an Article 5 and bring in NATO. Article 5 is the part of the NATO treaty that says an armed attack on one member state is an armed attack on all. “There's only one way we are going to diminish them and that is by taking them out, because they are growing. They are in more than a dozen countries now.” Republicans in Congress have been urging for some time a bigger pushback against the Islamic State, but Sen. Feinstein is a Democrat, and as vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, she is a leading voice on foreign affairs. But Obama said any new strategy would have to be sustainable. “Let’s assume that we were to send 50,000 troops into Syria. What happens when there’s a terrorist attack generated from Yemen?” asked Obama. “Do we then send more troops into there? Or Libya, perhaps? Or if there’s a terrorist network that’s operating anywhere else, in North Africa, or in Southeast Asia?” In a final statement, the G-20 leaders vowed to increase intelligence sharing, tighten their national borders and attempt to cut off terrorist funding in the aftermath of the attacks in Paris. However, more consensus among the world leaders won’t be easy, according to Heather Conley, the director of the Europe Program for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “The parties have very different agendas. The Russian government wants to keep Assad in power and fighting the Syrian opposition. The U.S. is supporting the Syrian opposition and the Syrian Kurdish forces. Turkey is working against the Syrian Kurdish forces. I mean the complexity here is extraordinary,” she said, referring to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. The U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition has seen victories on the ground in recent weeks in Sinjar, Iraq and al-Hawl, Syria. The coalition also provided a symbolic blow to the terror groups' recruiting efforts last week with a drone attack that reportedly killed Jihadi John, the public face of the group. “Have we done damage to ISIS? Yes. Have we stopped them from expanding? The answer is yes to that as well – at least generally. But winning, not yet,” Anthony Cordesman, for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Monday. Cordesman says winning will require some degree of global unity against the extremists. U.S. and Russian leaders appeared to put aside many of their differences and made headway on plans for a cease-fire and an eventual transfer of power in Syria. Obama and Putin met twice on the sidelines of the summit, building on progress the two sides made at talks on Syria in Vienna over the weekend. Obama also met with leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Western European nations, all of them key players in international efforts to end the Syrian conflict, which has become a source of terrorist activity and triggered a massive exodus of refugees into Europe. But talk is not enough for France, which has carried out at least 20 air strikes on the Islamic State group’s main stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, in the days since the attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people. “One cannot be attacked harshly, and you know the drama that is happening in Paris, without being present and active,” said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, attending the summit in place of President Francois Hollande. Education not always means not being unemployed By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A new report finds workers around the world are becoming more educated. But the International Labor Organization notes in "Key Indicators of the Labor Market” a better educated, higher-skilled workforce is not leading to lower unemployment globally. A survey of more than 200 countries shows a definite link between the level of education and the ability of workers to access the labor market. The data suggest a strong correlation between the level of education and national productivity levels based on workers' output. Steven Kapsos, who heads the International Labor Organization’s Data Productions and Analysis Unit, says benefits achieved in productivity from a more educated workforce are essential for long-term improvements in competitiveness and broader economic development. He does, however, note a downside. “The data do not show that more educated workers automatically have a better chance of finding a job," he said. "While they are less likely to be unemployed in most high-income economies, tertiary graduates in low- and lower-middle-income economies are actually more likely to be among the unemployed than workers with a lower educational attainment level. So a key message here is that while a more educated global workforce enhances the potential for economies to grow and develop, this is not an automatic process.” For that to happen, Kapsos says the skills and educational levels of the workforce have to be successfully matched to meet the demands of the economy. The report notes the number of people employed in manufacturing in high-income economies since 2000 has declined by 5.2 million, while it has grown by 195 million in middle-income countries. At the same time, it finds a substantial decline in the number of so-called working poor. It says the number of people living on less than $2 per person, per day has fallen by 479 million between 2000 and 2015. |
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The event has been
attracting crowdsLast 2015 Art
City Tour is Friday
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the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The increasingly popular Art City Tour will have its last evening for the year Friday. This is a time when visitors can tour the area's major cultural locations for free. The evening also is attracting more and more visitors on bicycles who gather at Parque España to tour the sites. Others can take advantage of free bus services. The Ministerio de Cultural y Juventud is promoting its museums as places to visit from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Friday date is new because previous events have been during the week. The ministry is promoting visits to the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, the Museo Nacional, the Museo Dr. Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, the Museo de Arte Costarricense and the Centro Nacional de la Cultura. Also open will be the Museos del Banco Central and the Museo de Jade, which are not operated by the ministry. Many galleries and other cultural facilities also will be open. Those who wish to use a bus are asked to register ahead of time HERE! Some 14 restaurants in Barrio Escalante also are participating with exhibitions of historic photos. Art City Tour began in 2010, and now many of the museums time the opening of exhibits to coincide with the night. Police agencies conduct cigarette sweeps By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Law enforcement and tax police cracked down on illegal cigarettes Monday. The Policía de Control Fiscal, the Fuerza Pública and the San José Policía Municipal checked out 10 stores where cigarettes are sold and ended up confiscating 4,660 cigarettes. Recent laws have tightened the way in which cigarettes can be marketed and sold. For example, the sale of single cigarettes is banned as a way to discourage smoking. In addition there are many smuggled cigarettes on the market in the Central Valley One outlet was shut down because it did not have a required health permit for operation, said police. |
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From Page 7: Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
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The Parrita
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coast will get more electrical power
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The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad says it is investing $20.5 million to erect 37 towers and build a substation to improve the transmission of electricity between Parrita and Jacó. The project is expected to be in service by the middle of next year. Work began in 2014. The new power lines also will include a link to Cañas, said the company. The work is supposed to improve electrical service along the Pacific coast for the benefit of residents, businesses and tourism operators, said the company. |
