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Daily Edition: San José, Costa Rica, February 04, 2005
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Advertising Campaign Launched
For Protection of Marine Ecosystems
Nonprofit marine-protection organizations MarViva and Promar launched a three-month radio and TV campaign yesterday to raise consciousness among Costa Ricans about the importance of marine ecosystems.
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Red Cross Helps Children In
Flood-Stricken Caribbean
Weeks after the danger has passed, the Costa Rican Red Cross has continued working in the more than 200 communities on the Caribbean slope that were underwater during floods throughout the first weeks of January and turned its attention to helping the children.
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Chamber of Commerce Bestows
Award on Ex-Foreign Trade Minister
The Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce has awarded the Order of Merit to Albert Trejos, former Foreign Trade Minister who resigned in September 2004. He was honored both for his leadership as minister and because he is a Costa Rican with a distinguished academic and professional career.
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Police Arrest Dominican Singer
For Allegedly Selling Drugs
Police officials have arrested a Dominican musician they identified as Mujica Pelaéz, alleging he was selling drugs in the red-light district of San José.
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February 04
Concert by Nicaraguan Singers
Flor Urbina and Juan Solórzano will perform tonight at 9 p.m. at Jaulares, on the road to Fraijanes. Those who attend can participate in a raffle of two free dinners. Info: 428-2155. On Saturday at 8 p.m., they will be singing at Meridiano al Este. Info: 256-2705.
Editus in Concert
Award-winning musical group Editus will perform a concert to raise funds for the church of San Ramón , tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Casa Pastoral, 500 meters north and 300 meters east of the San Ramón Hospital, on the road to Zarcero, San Ramón, Alajuela. Info: 445-5592.
Rosary in Honor of the Christ Child
Everyone is welcome to attend the rosary in honor of the Christ Child, Sunday at 5 p.m. in the Pueblo Antigüo at the Parque de Diversiones in La Uruca, west of San José . A musical group will accompany the prayers. Entrance is free but a special pass for unlimited amusement park rides costs ¢3,600.
Edited By Robert Goodier
Tico Times Staff
rgoodier@ticotimes.net
Advertising Campaign Launched
For Protection of Marine Ecosystems
By María Gabriela Díaz
Tico Times Staff
mgdiaz@ticotimes.net
Nonprofit marine-protection organizations MarViva and Promar launched a three-month radio and TV campaign yesterday to raise consciousness among Costa Ricans about the importance of marine ecosystems.
The campaign, with the slogan “our seas are our future,” consists of four TV clips and four radio ads that disseminate information about marine biodiversity, tourism and fishing exploitation in Costa Rican waters.
“Most Costa Ricans have a superficial understanding of the ocean; they tend to think of it as a place to go for sunbathing and fun. Instead, they associate forests with biodiversity,” said Priscilla Cubero, marine biologist and Promar president, citing the results of a 2003 survey conducted by Promar.
“As individuals we ask ourselves what we can do to help and think it's not much, and we should let NGOs (non-government organizations) worry about our marine ecosystems. These are the perceptions we seek to change through the campaign,” Cubero told the press yesterday.
The campaign, produced with assistance from the Ministry of the Environment and Energy (MINAE) and several national TV and radio stations, cost approximately $10,000, according to MarViva spokeswoman Marcela Vargas.
In November 2004, MarViva launched a two-week campaign with the slogan “Without a fishing and aquaculture law, impunity will prevail.” The TV and radio ads promoted the need for the Fishing and Aquaculture Law Project, a long-awaited fishing bill. The bill, which would penalize fishing violations, including shark-finning, the slicing off of sharks' cartilage-filled fins, was approved in first debate by the Legislative Assembly last December (TT, Jan. 14), but a second vote originally scheduled for late January has been delayed.
Red Cross Helps Children In
Flood-Stricken Caribbean
Weeks after the danger has passed, the Costa Rican Red Cross has continued working in the more than 200 communities on the Caribbean slope that were underwater during floods throughout the first weeks of January and turned its attention to helping the children.
Tomorrow, volunteer emergency workers will deliver 2,000 backpacks full of school supplies to children in Bribrí and the surrounding region, an area south and inland of the Caribbean port city Limón that has a large indigenous population.
The backpacks contain the supplies on the Public Education Ministry's official list, to the tune of ¢15 million ($32,500), and are part of a series of projects the Costa Rican Red Cross is carrying out thanks to cooperation from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent network and generous donations from the Costa Rican community.
The Red Cross has collected $70,000 in cash, as well as ¢300 million ($650,000) in food, clothes and supplies that it distributed throughout the emergency.
Chamber of Commerce Bestows
Award on Ex-Foreign Trade Minister
The Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce has awarded the Order of Merit to Albert Trejos, former Foreign Trade Minister who resigned in September 2004. He was honored both for his leadership as minister and because he is a Costa Rican with a distinguished academic and professional career.
The award is bestowed by the chamber's president to outstanding people, dead or alive, Costa Rican or foreign, who have strengthened the exercise of business or who, through political or private action, have decidedly contributed to its expansion, reinforcement, and consolidation, according to a statement from the chamber.
Trejos graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in economics. During his time as foreign trade minister of Costa Rica from 2002 until he stepped down last year, he helped negotiate the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA), lead the country's entry into the Central American Customs Union, lobbied for the ratification of a free-trade agreement with Canada and negotiated another with the 14 member countries of the Caribbean Community.
Police Arrest Dominican Singer
For Allegedly Selling Drugs
Police officials have arrested a Dominican musician they identified as Mujica Pelaéz, alleging he was selling drugs in the red-light district of San José.
Anti-narcotics agents told the press the 29-year-old reggaetón singer was in the country to record an album with a prestigious recording company.
According to police, Pelaéz was detained in a Dominican bar with enough evidence to incriminate him on charges of local drug trafficking.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to as many as 15 years of prison.
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