by Rod Hughes
The Ministry of Energy and the Environment, along with Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) technicians are studying the use of biomass digesters to produce electricity. The country, they point out, produces agricultural waste from sugar refining and the processing of pineapple for export.
The generators would use decomposing plant material to produce inflammable methane […]
by Rod Hughes
The Costa Rica Elecricity Institute (ICE) is suing French telecommunications giant for $60 million in connection with the scandal-ridden cell phone system contract that has already resulted in the incarceration of an ex-president, the charging of 10 others and the conviction in the United States of an Alcatel executive.
ICE took over administration of […]
by Rod Hughes
Five Central American presidents celebrated the 20th anniversary Wednesday of the signing of peace accords that brought the region’s ruinous and bloody civil wars to a close, while the sixth president, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, sniped from Managua.
Ortega, who did not attend the event due to “agenda conflicts,” according to his Foreign Ministry, did […]
