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Daily Edition: San José, Costa Rica, July 26, 2006
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| BOOK DONATION: The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) yesterday donated more than 4,000 books to the National Library System to be distributed to San José's National Library and throughout country's public libraries. Here, Wolfgang Reuther, director of Costa Rica's UNESCO branch symbolically hands over books to Margarita Rojas, director of the National Library System, and National Library director Yamileth Solano. Tammy Zibners/Tico Times |
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President Arias Holds
Cabinet Meeting in Guanacaste
In honor of the 182nd anniversary of the Annexation of Guanacaste, President Oscar Arias and his ministers yesterday traveled to the northwestern province to hold a special Cabinet meeting in Nicoya's town park.
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Course to Strengthen Latin
American Justice Systems
Judges and lawyers from 10 Latin American countries arrived to Costa Rica this week to participate in a course on how to create more effective and transparent judicial systems in the region, according to Elías Carranza, director of the U.N. Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD).
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July 26
Gandhi in concert
Acoustic rock, 10 p.m., Jazz Café, San Pedro, east of San José. Info: 253-8933.
Videoteca a Puertas Abiertas
Featuring a screening of the film “El Abuelo,” directed by José Luis Garci, 7 p.m., Spanish Cultural Center, Barrio Escalante, San José. Info: 257-2919.
Edited By Amanda Roberson
Tico Times Staff
aroberson@ticotimes.net
President Arias Holds Cabinet Meeting in Guanacaste
By Katherine Stanley
Tico Times Staff
kstanley@ticotimes.net
In honor of the 182nd anniversary of the Annexation of Guanacaste, President Oscar Arias and his ministers yesterday traveled to the northwestern province to hold a special Cabinet meeting in Nicoya's town park.
With citizens looking on during the meeting, which is normally a closed session held at Casa Presidencial in San José, Arias said the province's changing hands from Nicaragua to Costa Rica following a popular vote “reaffirmed respect for the majority decision and immutable faith in every human being's right to choose his or her own destiny.”
He added that Guanacaste is in need of support from the central government, given damaged road infrastructure, increasing lack of safety, “environmental risks” and unequal distribution of wealth in the region.
According to Arias, renovations to Daniel Oduber International Airport in the provincial capital of Liberia, along with an agreement between the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) and Public Security Ministry to launch its Tourism Police force, are among the plans that will help the region prosper.
Cabinet ministers told TV Channel 13, which broadcast the session, about Guanacaste-related plans within their ministries. Public Education Minister Leonardo Garnier said improving classroom maintenance and including Guanacaste's culture in school curricula are among his priorities.
Course to Strengthen Latin American Justice Systems
By Amanda Roberson
Tico Times Staff
aroberson@ticotimes.net
Judges and lawyers from 10 Latin American countries arrived to Costa Rica this week to participate in a course on how to create more effective and transparent judicial systems in the region, according to Elías Carranza, director of the U.N. Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD).
The 10-day course, also sponsored by the U.N. Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), began yesterday and runs through Aug. 3 at the Hotel Bougainvillea in Santo Domingo de Heredia, north of San José.
The course's objectives are to give officials the knowledge to establish a more effective, transparent criminal justice system that protects human rights, according to a statement from JICA.
Thirty representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela are participating in the course, which will include presentations by legal experts including Costa Rican Chief Prosecutor Francisco Dall'Anese, Costa Rican Penal Branch of the Supreme Court (Sala III) president José Manuel Arroyo and experts from Japan, who were asked to participate because of their country's impressively low crime rates, Carranza said.
“Japan has one of the lowest murder rates in the world and one of the lowest prison populations,” Carranza said. “This shows an effective penal system.”
Before planning the course, ILANUD and JICA carried out studies of Latin America's penal systems and found “an inexistence of programs and free legal defense services to comply with due process,” according to the JICA statement.
As a result, an agreement was signed by the two institutes and the Costa Rican government to carry out this training program for three years, the statement said.
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