Archive for February 3rd, 2009
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Without notice to employees and customers, the Mexican owners of the Domino’s Pizza franchise in Costa Rica decided to pull up stakes and close its nine store on Saturday, leaving its 130 employees, unemployed.
The order from the head office in San Francisco de Dos Ríos, San José, went out that all stores to be closed, all equipment and inventory to be pulled, without any explanation as to the why.
Employees told the press that the move (closing) was surprising, though not totally unexpected, as the company had been losing money, estimated at us$2 million by the employees of the pizza chian..
Employees now hope the owners will at least pay all salaries and the “liquidación” – severance pay that is owed to employees.
All the Domino’s Pizza stores were located in the Gran Área Metropolitana (San José).
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
A suspected child molester who tried to hide from the law in Costa Rica is back in Spokane and standing trial in Superior Court. A new law may help prosecutors secure a conviction against him.
Bernie Rials is a Level Two Sex Offender who’s already been convicted of molesting one child and now standing trial for molesting another. In the most recent case Rials allegedly fondled the seven-year-old daughter of his female drug dealer in a Spokane parking lot.
Rials’ alleged victim is now 11 and will testify against him but the first person to the take stand on Monday was a college student. She was just seven-years-old when in 1996 Rials used a ladder to climb through her bedroom window. (more…)
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Commercial airlines that fly into Costa Rica and use the Juan Santamaría Airport raised their voices in unison after the increase in fees which took effect last week.
The main problem is because they consider them too high, even though the airport does not provide all the facilities to operate efficiently.
For example, the companies point out that while they are charged $497 at Juan Santamaría Aiport for operating an Airbus A320 flight, at the Tocumen airport in Panama, where the terminal offers more than double our capacity, it costs them $198.
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