Archive for August 29th, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
The raucous honking of a cistern truck carrying potable water rouses residents from their homes here each morning, clanging plastic bottles and tin pots in hand.
”When will it stop,” says 64-year-old Rufina Najera, lugging a yellow 5-gallon pail stained with dirt to the roadside. “The pineapple companies tell us the water is clean, but the government won’t let us drink it.”
Last year, authorities detected small amounts of Bromacil, a pesticide used to thwart insects from pineapple plants, in the local aquifer. Since then, the government has delivered water by truck to nearly 6,000 people.
The crisis has spawned an increasingly volatile movement among residents, who last week blocked the country’s principal export artery, Route 32, between the capital of San Jose and the Caribbean port city of Limon, leaving hundreds of cars and trucks stranded for hours.
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Five years into a possible 46 year prison sentence, Alonso Peña, is asking that he be put to death, while his mother, Carmen Mesén, is desperately trying to convince her son of otherwise.
Peña was only 19 years old when he was sentenced. (more…)
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
ECI Telecom has scored another big goal in its quest for worldwide domination of the networking infrastructure solutions market.
It has signed up Radiográfica Costarricense S.A. (RACSA), who is the main Costa Rican telecom and internet provider in the Central American country.
RACSA is seeking to widen its ECI’s XDM Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP) and is looking to ECI to combine SDH, Ethernet switching and WDM on a single, converged platform.
RACSA has opted for rapid expansion as an antidote to increased competition in Costa Rica.
It wants to jump heavily onto the data services bandwagon, as well as add video and voice services for its eager customers.
RACSA issued an open RFP to leading equipment vendors to provide transport offerings to support its existing and future networks.
ECI’s service was chosen from the various tenders offered.
RACSA considered that ECI offered the most cost effective bid when taking into consideration its single platform XDM MSPP requirements.
With the new deal, ECI has now managed to sign up the two largest carriers in the Central American country, more or less cornering the local market.
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