Act early and you can beat the lines! As of Monday in over 700 authorized points of sale you can pay your mandatory car insurance for 2006. Besides the INS itself and its authorized agencies, these banks will have the stickers for sale: Banco Nacional, Banco de Costa Rica, Banco Crédito Agrícola (BanCredito), Banex, BAC San José, Promérica and Cuscatlán.  You can also pay over the Internet with INS or the banks.

In order to get the insurance, present the following documents: current technical revision from RiTeVe, license plate number, and your identification.  Check for additional documents needed if the car is not in your name or in a company name.

The obligatory insurance covers injuries and deaths resulting from traffic accidents, no matter which driver is responsible or if no fault exists.  Covers civil responsibilities produced in accidents  derived from the use, possession or maintenance of motorized vehicles, when the sentence is final and emitted by a competent court.

The Chancellor of Nicaragua, Norman Caldera, stated that Nicaragua was willing to go to the International Court in the Hague to ask them to return Guanacaste to its original owner.  In 1825 "Guanacastecos" voted to secede from Nicaragua, then joined Costa Rica as the seventh province.  This action was ratified in the 1858 Cañas-Jeréz treaty that delimited each countries borders. 

Caldera, stated that this was a response to Costa Rica’s petition in the same court and had been suggested to the government by several Nicaraguan legal experts.  "There are some who say, well if Costa Rica is going to put in doubt the Cleveland Letter, then we should too. For example, ask them to give back Guanacaste". 

Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco, wasn’t interested in debating the possibility "I will not analyze this, because it is completely out of line, I have nothing to say".   Costa Rica’s top diplomat, Roberto Tovar, stated that "this matter was settled ages ago.  In 1858, Costa Rica and Nicaragua agreed in treaties to each nation’s borders."   He explained that in the 1858 Cañas-Jeréz treaty clearly states that the San Juan River belongs to Nicaragua (one of very few border rivers in the world that belongs to one country), and that Nicoya "was, is and always shall be a part of Costa Rica".

• In 1812 the Spanish Constitution divided the territory of the Realm of Guatemala in political districts. One of them was the District of Nicoya, part the actual Province of Guanacaste, which depended upon Nicaragua for its political and civil administration.

• The District of Nicoya was made up of the Palenque Diriá (today Santa Cruz), Siete Cueros (today known as Filadelfia) and the town of Guanacaste (today called Liberia).

• The internal conflicts in Nicaragua caused the people of Nicoya to have closer contact with the Costa Ricans in Puntarenas, Esparza, Bagaces and Cañas.

• After a plebiscite on July 25th 1825, defined by Dictionary.com as "A vote in which a population exercises the right of national self-determination" the District of Nicoya annexed itself to Costa Rica. The union was ratified in the Cañas-Jerez Border Treaty of 1858 between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Later it was ratified in the Cleveland Letter of 1888. 

Escazu and Santa Ana will be the first towns to benefit from Wi-Max access in Costa Rica, RACSA has announced its new program for 2006.  This will allow properly equipped PCs, laptops PDAs and cell phones wireless broadband access to the Internet.

The main advantages of the technology are lower cost (no wires), higher speeds( 500kbit/s and 2 Mbit/s) and better range (5 to 8 km from cells as opposed to 3 km for DSL lines).  RACSA plans to install one cell in Santa Ana - Escazu in January to serve 500 accounts. During the remainder of 2006 they plan to install 6 cells in the GAM (Grand Metropolitan Area) to serve 20,000 users. 

 Wi-MAX technology is promoted by the WiMax Forum, the board includes enterprises like:

According to the Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimax)
WiMAX is an acronym that stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, a certification mark for products that pass conformity and interoperability tests for the IEEE 802.16 standards.  Products that pass the conformity tests for WiMAX are capable of forming wireless connections between them to permit the carrying of internet packet data. It is similar to WiFi in concept, but has certain improvements that are aimed at improving performance and should permit usage over much greater distances.

Visit the Wikipedia for complete information about WiMax.