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'Nutcracker'
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as staple of holiday season By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Christmas season would not be complete without "The
The first performance was at the historic Marinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1892. Wes Chapman is the artistic director of the work. He is artistic director of the American Ballet Theater's studio company. As a performer he worked with such names as George Balanchine and Twyla Tharp. The theater says this is a new production of the classic work with the participation of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. The principal ballet soloists are Yuriko Kajiya and Carlos López of the American Ballet Theater. The theater will present 12 performances started Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. Choreography is by María Amalia Pendones and Patricia Carreras with the assistance of the Russian expert Maria Monakhova. Our readers' opinions
Panamá is adult countrycompared to adolescent one Dear A.M. Costa Rica: There's only one error in Baker's otherwise excellent article. Costa Rica has already become Panama's back yard. http://www.amcostarica.com/112309.htm#31 Panama is a serious "adult" country compared to Costa Rica's negligent, responsibility-dodging, adolescent one. One example is security. A year ago, after storms closed the route to the interior, gasoline trucks arrived at Almirante in the Bocas del Toro area. Drivers and boaters flocked to get gasoline at the port dock. By the end of the day the one lone attendant must have had $10,000 in cash. But not one guard was on hand. Compare that to Costa Rica where guards at gas stations are routine. Yesterday, when I got gas outside David the lone attendant had a wad of cash that would choke a horse. But again, no guard. Why? None was needed. In Panama it's crime — and punishment. Swift, effective punishment. And the bad guys know it. It's a whole different "grown-up" attitude. That's why banana ships are in and out of the port of Almirante in record time, compared to work blockages in Limón that cause loss of millions of dollars in fresh fruit. The difference is a national attitude -- a "can do" attitude versus "why do" attitude. If this trend continues, Costa Rica will not only become Panama's backyard, but a backwater to booming, thriving Panamá. Carl
Robbins
David, Panama, Seattle, Washington Press freedom seen as key to national development Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Only when freedom of the press is allowed, similar to what just passed in Argentina, will conditions improve in Costa Rica. It's understandable, given the incompetence and corruption in the government, why these people would want press freedom discouraged but surely there must be some among them who would put the country and its people ahead of the interests of their colleagues, despite not being in the majority. Had the Spanish the same press and speech freedoms that were accorded the people who settled the United States and Canada, allowing the governed the right to complain, there would be prosperity from Alaska down to Tierra Del Fuego. Instead, we get people dying on a daily basis as a result of government ignorance and mismanagement. Those responsible should be getting jail terms when these deaths occur. Perhaps that might straighten them out. Grant
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Unexpected boat
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The multi-hull Crêpes Whaou! crossed the finish line off Puerto Limón Monday night at 10:31 p.m. to claim victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre trans-Atlantic boat race. The expected leader, the Safran was still some 70 miles back but still expected to claim the honors in the mono-hull class. Franck-Yves Escoffier and Erwan Le Roux were greeted by hundreds of spectators, most of them Ticos. Fireworks lighted the sky. The Crêpes Whaou! took 15 days, 15 hours, 31 minutes and 50 seconds to travel from Le Havre, France. Race organizers compute their average speed at 13.41 knots over the 5,805 miles. Safran had been presumed to be the lead boat for most of the race. But that was based on skipper position reports. Crêpes Whaou! notified race organizers when the craft was just 12 miles from the finish. The racers called cloaking their position "stealth mode," and it was Marc Guillemot on Safran that said he was going to adopt this strategy earlier in the day. But he must have had a hint. He said by radio "If Crepes Whaou! gets in first, so be it, it won't bother me. And it would be good for Franck-Yves and Erwan but what interests us is in getting in before Groupe Bel and the others. They are a different class and did a different course.” The Instituto Costarricense de Turismo is counting on the race to bring swarms of tourists to Limón. Most of |
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photothem will be Costa Rican. Some groups are organizing outings from the Central Valley to see the boats. Francisco Antonio Pacheco, the president of the Asamblea Legislativa, is acting president while Óscar Arias Sánchez makes a tour of the Mideast. Pacheco will do the official honors Friday at 5 p.m. for a formal presentation of awards in Limón. Escoffier and Le Roux got the traditional spraying of champagne shortly after they arrived. They stood together with hands held high accepting the crowd's cheers. The race may not do the promotion that the tourism board wanted. Even race organizers called the country Puerto Rica in a Monday news release posted to the Web site. Tourism minister Allan Flores was reported to be in Limón to welcome the winners. |
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The Teatro Nacional now says there was no funny business in its ticket office. The council of the theater reported that an internal audit did not encounter any shortages of money. In a cryptic statement last Oct. 28, the council said that it had called for a full internal audit after complaints came of supposed irregularities in the management of the ticketing operation. The nature of the complaints were not disclosed, and the council said it would not elaborate. |
The governing council discussed the
matter on Nov, 12 and then Friday,
said the most recent statement. No financial details were released, but
the council said that minutes of the meeting would be available
Thursday. However, the council said that the audit uncovered deficiencies in the internal controls of the ticketing office and that adjustments were being made in as little time as possible. The theater, one of Costa Rica's most attractive tourism and cultural sites, is a dependency of the Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes. |
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The garbage dumps used by municipalities outside the metro area are inappropriate and in a gray area as far as regulations are concerned, according to the Contraloría de la República. The Área de Fiscalización Municipal of the Contraloría looked at the problem and came to the same conclusion that has been apparent for some time. The open garbage dumps used by the municipalities are polluting the soil, underground water, nearby streams and rivers and the air. The Contraloría cited an absence of controls and suggested that the dumps represent a risk to the public. Most dumps are older than 10 years, the agency said. The four private dumps used by municipalities in the metro area comply with established requirements, the |
Contraloría
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Ministerio de Ambiente, Energía y Telecomunicaciones should
strengthen
its controls over dumps that are closing because eliminating
environmental problems is costly. The Contraloría said that mitigating the effects of the former Río Azul dump southeast of San José cost the country 2.7 billion colons or nearly $5 million. The Contraloría also noted that residents are not paying a fair share of the cost of garbage management. It also ordered the 32 offending municipalities to take steps in their next budgets to mitigate the air and gas problems generated by the dumps. The study and report did not address medical wastes, which A.M. Costa Rica has found to be a problem at many dumps. Medical waste does not receive the special care needed, at many dumps. |
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Perhaps only in Costa Rica with its easy access to the constitutional court can a biology exam become a major case. So far the Sala IV has rejected every appeal to keep the Ministerio de Educación Pública from making students retest in biology. The controversy involves fifth year, university bound students. More than 33,000 public and private students took the national biology test earlier this month. But the education ministry believes that the test was compromised and said that students in at least one school, Liceo de Moravia, got a look at the test the day before. The test is produced by the Imprenta Nacional. The ministry said that there was a chance that all students got a look at the test and scheduled a retest for Nov. 19. |
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constitutional court cases began, brought by parents of students who
already took the test. The court dismissed every one, but some parents
brought a case to the Tribunal Procesal Contencioso
Administrativo y
Civil de Hacienda. That court, which evaluates government actions,
suspended the test and held a hearing Monday. The tribunal eventually decided to lift the freeze on the test, and the education ministry is prepared to repeat the examination this afternoon for day students and at 6 p.m. for evening students. However, there is a chance that a new appeal might be filed with the Sala IV protesting the decision of the Tribunal Procesal Contencioso Administrativo. In which case another freeze might be ordered. Parents argue that there was no hint of cheating in the schools their students attended, and to retake the test might cause damage because the students are not prepared now. |
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gives up immunity to face probe of air trip By
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As expected, Maureen Ballestero Vargas of the Partido Liberación Nacional has lifted her own immunity for criminal and administrative action. She did this because she is being investigated by the Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones for using public resources for political reasons. She was the legislative deputy that took a trip on a security ministry light plane to Liberia and ended up appearing at a political meeting. She said the main purpose of the trip was to pick up her passport at her home there. She was leaving the country the next day. Subsequent investigation shows that she was a frequent flier in ministry aircraft. She sent a letter from Switzerland where she is visiting to Francisco Antonio Perched, president of the Asamblea Legislativa. Three electrical outages planned for maintenance By
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The Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz, the electric company, said that the center of downtown San José will lose power today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. In addition, the center of Desamparados, Barrio Colinia del Sur, also will lose power for the same period. A third outage is planned for La Ribera de Belén, the company said. That outage will be from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Involved will be the sectors east and south of the Firestone plant. Firestone itself will lose public power. The downtown outage will include the main office of Banco de Costa Rica, the Catedral Metropolitana and a host of retail outlets and food stores around Parque Central. The area is from Calle 1 to Calle 2 between avenidas 4 and 6 and from Calle 1 to Calle Central between avenidas 6 and 8, said the company. The company said the reason is for maintenance.
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