Daily News
Pirate taxi drivers protest turned violent
by TCRN Staff
Hundreds of pirate taxi drives turned San Jose and surrounding areas in chaos yesterday by blocking streets, slowing down traffic and precipitating violence that prevailed during the early morning hours.
The drivers, untied in the National House of Porters, were in the streets demanding the government withdraw a bill that aims to eliminate pirate [...]
Costa Rican Top Story
Traffic Cops refuse to apply the new penalties
by TCRN Staff
Although the new traffic fines are soon to be in effect, officials refuse to enforce them for fear of reprisals from the drivers and doubts raised about the implementation of sanctions.
That is the most drastic response adopted yesterday by the National Union of Professional and Technical Employees in Transit (Unateprot) after holding its [...]
Latin American News
Plans to Rebuild Haiti Expected Soon
(Reuters) – Government planners and international experts are racing to produce a blueprint this week to reconstruct Haiti’s economy after the earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people and devastated its infrastructure.
A team of 150 Haitian government officials and 90 international experts is to submit the plan to the government by Friday, said Doekle Wielinga, [...]
World News
Obama salutes Iraqis for voting despite violence
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqis on Sunday for voting in a parliamentary election despite bomb and rocket attacks that killed at least 38 people.
“I have great respect for the millions of Iraqis who refused to be deterred by acts of violence, and who exercised their right to vote today,” Obama said in [...]
Business
Debt had the largest increase in 10 years by TCRN Staff
In 2009 the burden of public debt rose 2.9 percentage points and ended the year in an amount which represented 42.3% of domestic production.
This is the largest increase in percentage points registered since 1999 and it reverses a downward trend that had that had been occurring since 2003.
In absolute terms, the debt ended [...]
Eco News
Global ban on bluefin tuna receives Costa Rican Support by TCRN Staff
Costa Rica will lead its support this month in Qatar, Middle East, where the initiative to help stem overfishing of Bluefin tuna.
This was confirmed this week by Jorge Rodriguez, Minister of Environment, Energy and Telecommunications (Minaet) and JoaquĂn Calvo, local coordinator of the Convention on International Trade in Species (CITES).
According to Rodriguez and [...]
Entertainment
After being sidelined, literature will have a presence in the FIA by TCRN Staff
Just two weeks before the start of the International Festival of Arts (FIA) 2010 organizers announced that literature itself will be included in programming.
In a press conference Friday at the National Theater, the director of the institution, Jody Steiger, revealed that the FIA will include a mini-book that takes place during the second [...]
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Health
New stomach cancer clinic opens in Costa Rica by TCRN Staff
A Costa Rican clinic was recently declared as a GastroclĂnica International Training Center in Gastroenterology by the World Organization of Gastroenterology.
This means that professionals in health sciences from other countries can come to Costa Rica to train in new techniques for early detection and treatment of gastric cancer and other digestive diseases.
This medical [...]
Travel & Leisure
Killer Whales and Killer Apes Contributor – Meditations
Martin LeFerve
Orcas (“Killer Whales”) are probably the smartest animals on earth other than humans (“Killer Apes”). A caged and exploited member of their species, “Tilly,” allegedly aggravated by a trainer’s ponytail, snuffed out her life at SeaWorld in Florida this past week.
Of course smarts are very different than intelligence. Animals have an unconscious [...]
Celebrity Watch
Shaun White Rocks Rolling Stone Intern – Sydney R. Lawson
Some joke he resembles a young version of comedian Carrot Top, but 23-year-old pro snowboarder and skateboarder, Shaun White, is laughing to the bank after winning gold at this year’s Winter Olympics. He also scored his second Rolling Stone Magazine cover on their March issue.
Being an Olympic gold medalist and [...]
