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Judge released suspect in Limón teen murder By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A judge declined to jail a 16-year-old murder suspect. Instead, the judge allowed the youth to live with a grandfather. Now the murder suspect is missing and a warrant has been issued, according to the Poder Judicial. This is the case of the stabbing death of the high school student with the last name of Ebanks. He died last week when other youths jumped him. The murder happened in Barrio Pacuare, Limón, said the Poder Judicial. Investigators detained the 16-year-old and brought him to court. The prosecutor sought preventative detention but the judge let the youth leave. He was ordered to maintain a fixed residence. The prosecutor appealed the decision, but when investigators went to confirm that the boy was with his grandfather, they could not find him. Tourist information center now online in Puerto Viejo By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca now has a professionally run information and reservation office near the main bus stop in town. The project is by Tropical Tales S.A, operated by three expats. Dennis Sinacola, the CEO, said that the business is expanding by launching a new Web site and the first complete online tours database for the Puerto Viejo area and the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Sinacola, his wife, Kim, and business partner Liam Montgomery produce Tropical Tales, an entertainment publication, and the Web site is another step to provide information to the Caribbean coast community. Sinacola is from Whitefish, Montana, and said he has many years experience in computers. "We found ourselves acting as a central visitor's center and that just naturally grew into the reservations and referrals business," he said. "There was a real need for a professionally run reservation office in this area with a friendly and knowledgeable staff and we were in the right place at the right time, and so this is how Tropical Reservations was born." Sinacola said that Tropical Tales S.A., in order to give something back to the community, contribute a portion of its proceeds to El Puente, an organization which helps the native population with education and microloans, New York brokerage firm adds BCT as partner here Special to A.M. Costa Rica
A New York-based brokerage firm that specializes in providing global trade execution and exclusive research to U.S. institutional investors has added a Costa Rican firm to its network. The firm, Auerbach Grayson & Company, Inc., specializes in developing markets and has ties to 121 countries in its network. In Costa Rica the new addition is BCT Valores Puesto de Bolsa S. A. , a subsidiary of Corporación BCT S.A. Auerbach Grayson also added partnerships with brokers in Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama and Paraguay to its global equity markets network, making Auerbach Grayson the broker with the broadest coverage of Latin American equities, with over 200 companies in 15 countries, said a news release. Auerbach Grayson said it plans to add several more Latin American markets to its network in 2009.
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Telephone rate hikes are
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The new telecommunications regulating panel is facing its first challenge just a few days after the last two members were sworn in. During the time between Aug. 13 when the new telecommunications law took effect and the creation of the panel, the former telephone monopoly, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, jacked up its own rates. The state-owned company said its legal staff determined it could do that absent a functioning Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones. The rate increases are due to take effect Saturday. The basic monthly cell telephone charge goes up 290 colons (52 U.S. cents) to 3,190 colons ($5.76). Each text message goes from 1.5 colons to 5.25 colons (about one U.S. cent). Despite the small amount and although the current charge was an introductory price, even Rodrigo Arias Sánchez, minister of the Presidencia, called the increase disproportionate during a meeting with reporters Wednesday. Individual citizens are promoting Saturday as a day without cellulars in the hopes that a one-day boycott will send the telecom company a message. The Superintendencia said late Wednesday that it would have a press conference today at which time it would present a resolution over the telephone rate increases. |
The Superintendencia is an agency of
the Authoridad Reguladora de
Servicios Públicos, and its members were appointed by that
regulating agency. However, the Asamblea Legislativa declined to
confirm two members and substitutes had to be found. So Monday the last
two members of the panel were sworn in. They are George Petrie Miley
Rojas and Maryleana Méndez Jiménez. He is a former
executive with Orange Business Services, and she worked for TecApro
Internacional. The other two members are Walther Herrera Cantillo, the former director of telecommunications for the Authoridad Reguladora, and Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, an economist who worked as a consultant for GeoDevelopments. Whatever the new Superintendencia decides is likely to be challenged by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad legal staff, and a protracted court fight is possible. The new telecom law that has instituted all these changes was part of the implementing agenda passed to go along with the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The law eliminated the monopoly held by the institute and opened the market to other firms. One of the principal jobs of the Superintendencia will be to grant authorizations for other telecommunications firms to do business in Costa Rica, set the rates and make sure the different communication systems work with each other. The agency also will control the use of the radio spectrum for wireless communication. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Arias administration will continue forward with a plan to offer concessions for the ports of Limón. That was the gist of comments Wednesday by Rodrigo Arias Sánchez, who spoke a day after some 11 major international companies heard a presentation on the project. The port now is in the hands of a government agency, the Junta de Administración Portuaria y Desarrollo de la Vertiente Atlántica, and the dock workers' union is a strong one that opposes the concession plan. The Arias administration seeks to accomplish what was done without much fanfare at the Port of Caldera on the Pacific. There government workers were let go and paid off handsomely. Many got jobs with the concession holder, |
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make a substantial investment in the port infrastructure. The meeting Wednesday appears to have prompted threats. Rodrigo Arias said that hardly anyone believes that Limón can move ahead with threats. Arias said that the government will continue ahead with the concession plan without fear of threats from a few. The concessions involve the docks at Limón and Moín. The docks lack modern equipment, and the unions have engaged in repeated work stoppages. Many agricultural exports pass through this port, including bananas and pineapples. Work stoppages have been costly. The dock concessions are part of an $80 million face lifting for the central canton of the province. |
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Coke smuggling ring used trucks, investigators report
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of the A.M. Costa Rica staff Six persons have been detained as investigators moved to break up a smuggling ring that carried cocaine to Guatemala. Investigators arrested Steven Araya Codero, 42, at his home in Patarra, Desamparados, and said that he was the leader of the smuggling group. The Judicial Investigating Organization spent four months on the case, agents said. Two Costa Ricans, Alex Salas Salazar, 24, and a man identified by the last names of Hernández Montenegro, also were held. Also detained was a Guatemalan, José Francisco |
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Hernández, a Nicaraguan, José Tomás Castillo Canizales, and a
Colombian, Alejandro Candelo Mina, said the Judicial Investigating
Organization. Francisco Segura, deputy director of the organization, said the gang brought cocaine from Panamá and kept it here in a truck warehouse. The destination was the United States, he said. Investigators ripped open the truck trailer in La Uruca Tuesday night where they said cocaine was hidden in a double floor. They said they found 286 kilos of cocaine, some 629 pounds. Segúra said that this gang transported cocaine produced by various drug organizations. So the participants were more or less independent operators. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Four men, suspected of burning their way into an Hatillo bank Aug. 20, have been arrested. The men are accused of the burglary at the Banco Nacional where thieves got away with 130 million colons, some $235,000. The men were captured in Siquirres and Guácimo during various searches. The men were identified by the Judicial Investigating Organization as Eduardo Hernández Rojas, |
Carlos Andres Alvarado Soto, Javier Arias Rojas and Henry Alberto Arias Cascante. The last two are father and son. Burglars used an acetylene torch to melt their way through the metal wall of the Hatillo bank in the early morning hours, said investigators. The four men also are being investigated in a series of burglaries in Cañas, Guanacaste, including one at a major appliance store. In the searches, investigators found oxygen and acetylene tanks as well as jewelry that they said might have been taken from the lock boxes at the bank. |
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to improve cooperation By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Cuban President Raúl Castro is in Russia on a week-long official visit aimed at boosting ties between the former Cold War allies. Castro is expected to meet today with his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev, at the Russian leader's country residence just outside Moscow. Cuba and Russia are also expected to sign several cooperation agreements. This is the first trip to Russia by a Cuban leader since 1986, when Castro's brother, Fidel Castro, traveled to Moscow. President Medvedev traveled to Cuba last November in a bid to bolster ties in Latin America. The Russian leader said he believes Castro's visit will strengthen development of relations between their two countries. Last year, Russia signed a $20 million trade agreement with Cuba to expand economic cooperation. The Soviet Union was Cuba's main benefactor during the Cold War, but the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 battered Cuba's economy and strained relations between Havana and Moscow. Colombian politician says some hostages to be freed By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
A Colombian senator says leftist rebels will free some of the six hostages they have pledged to release Sunday. Opposition Sen. Piedad Cordoba made the announcement Wednesday, saying she has received the coordinates of the location of the handover. Ms. Cordoba, who has been an intermediary in the process, did not release the names of the people expected to be freed. She did say the hostages will be turned over to a mission traveling from Brazil, which is expected to provide aircraft to pick them up. In December, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia said it was willing to hand over the six hostages but that it would only do so in the presence of an international representative. The terrorist group said it wanted someone from either a brother country or the international community to be on hand when the hostages are freed. The rebels and the government have said they will let someone from the International Committee of the Red Cross be present for the release of the hostages, who include two politicians, three police officers and a soldier. In July, the terrorist group was dealt a blow when soldiers posing as members of a humanitarian group freed 15 prominent hostages, including French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans. The 15 were freed without a shot being fired. |
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