Archive for January 22nd, 2006

Don’t Paint Your Plates RTV Detecting More Cases

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

If your license plates are faded or illegible, don’t paint them.  The inspection manual lists painted plates as a grave flaw which will cause your vehicle to fail the inspection.  This defect is becoming more and more common, in December 1667 vehicles were failed because the plates were repainted.
Plates must be legible, original and […]

8 Year Old AIDS Victim Denied Visa for Disneyland

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

The US Embassy here has again denied a tourist visa to an 8 year old girl with terminal AIDS.  Marlone Ávila, Director of the Fundación Vida, tried to assist the girl with her dying wish to go to Disneyland.  " I took everything they asked, but the consul said that AIDS infected people may not […]

NASA Launches Project Here - UFOs Related to Project

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

NASA began this week the Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment (CR-AVE) which will study climate changes and the recuperation of the Ozone Layer. The mission consists of 12 flights that began January 14th and will end February 12th. The objective is to validate data from the AURA satellite.
Jorge Andrés Díaz confirmed that the UFOs that […]

Arias Supports Figueres

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Oscar Arias declared on Tuesday that he didn’t see any need for Jose Maria Figueres to return to the country to answer questions about his involvment in the Alcatel - ICE corruption scandal.  Figueres received $ 900,000 in consulting fees from a firm hired by Alcatel to "increase market share" in Costa Rica’s telecommunications monopoly. […]

Libertarian Movement Denounces Dirty Campaign Tactics

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Although there is no smoking gun pointing to the responsible party, the Libertarian Movement has complained about dirty campaign tactics including destruction of signs, threatening e-mails, a campaign headquarters in San Carlos spray painted black, and even fake flyers expounding attacking PAC in the name of the party.
Peter Guevara, brother of the presidential candidate […]