Archive for March 21st, 2007

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Ex-Alcatel Executive

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

A federal Grand Jury in Miami has indicted Edgar Valverde, ex-general manager of the Costa Rican operation of the international telecommunications company, Alcatel, on 10 counts including bribery and money laundering, reported the leading daily newspaper La Nacion today.
The jury accused Valverde of bribing Costa Rican officials to obtain a multimillion dollar contract for cell phone […]

Tidal Swings

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

3/21/7
Happy Spring! There’s been a small delay in the plans, about 3 days, we hope. The guys have been making placas, as they are called, for the footings, and are finishing that today. They are hoping to start on Thursday, next week.
We are having the highest, and the lowest, tides of the year this week. […]

Blogus Interruptus

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

I started this one, and got interrupted.  So it’s just a short one.
3/14/7
The house is started! The first day they marked out where the house and pool would be, then used some perling and roofing to make themselves a shop, out of the way. Yesterday they started bending rebar for the footings. They are going […]