Costa Rica News Archives - August, 2011
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ICE Enables Cellular Video Calling In Costa RicaInside Costa RicaVideo calling is now a reality in Costa Rica as the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) enabled the service "kölbi video llamada" on Monday for all users of the 3G cellular network. The process to activate video calling is for the user, ...
Get to Know Costa Rica's Tropical Fruit
The Costa Rica News
A common gripe about living in Costa Rica is the repetitive food. There's a certain comfort in always being able to stop by your local soda and enjoy an inexpensive casado with nutritious black beans, rice, salad, and possibly a wedge of avocado, ...
ATENAS, COSTA RICA: A WORLD CLASS RETIREMENT AND VACATION DESTINATION
The Costa Rica News
In 2004 my family and I decided to make our first trip to COSTA RICA as a “research” mission to see if COSTA RICA would be a good candidate to purchase a VACATION/RETIREMENT HOME . I had met Gerardo Gonzalez-Porras back in the Florida,(the other half ...
Study Shows Poaching Tortuga Lora Eggs Does Not Harm The Species
Inside Costa Rica
Studies by the University of Costa Rica (UCR) for nearly 15 years shows that the extraction of Tortuga Lora (Olive Ridley) eggs is possible without negatively affecting the species. The number of turtles that arrive at Playa Ostional is such, ...
Costa Rica's Hidden Beach Getaway
International Living
Just six miles south of the popular tourist beach town of Tamarindo in Costa Rica, is a pristine beach loved by locals…and the tourists who can find it. Playa Avellanas is an oasis at the end of a long warren of dusty, bumpy dirt roads. ...
Costa Rican Slum Town Reformed by Church
Christian Broadcasting Network
That's the challenge national Congressman Carlos Avendano faced when he moved to Los Guido, a dangerous slum in Costa Rica. The solution he came up with not only transformed the neighborhood, it changed the destiny of hundreds of people. ...
Costa Rica company helping fight cervical cancer
Tico Times
Founders of the Costa Rican company BioTD found a quicker alternative to the 80-year-old Pap smear. It could save lives. Innovators: Scientists at BioTD have invented a procedure that makes it easier to detect cervical cancer, improving on the ...
Mexico and Costa Rica vow to fight drug cartels
Fox News
Mexico City – Mexico and Costa Rica unveiled their Strategic Association Accord and signed a series of pacts to effectively "erase" their borders so the two countries can fight as one against organized crime in a region where Mexican drug cartels cast ...
Costa Rica's spectacular mountain region a must-see
Del Mar Times
By Catherine Kolonko The ocean water is warm, the surfing is great but in Costa Rica, there is also a wealth of natural beauty at loftier heights in the country's mountainous region. It's a landscape alive with color and sounds that heighten the senses ...
Costa Rica, Jamaica Move Forward On Trade Deal
Inside Costa Rica
Jamaica and Costa Rica are attempting to press forward with the formal implementation of a seven-year-old-free trade agreement (FTA), and have held talks designed to move the process along. The FTA was signed in 2004 between Costa Rica and the ...
Costa Rica serves as campus for summer trip mixing learning, fun
Charleston Gazette
When several Horace Mann students took a summer field trip to Costa Rica, one of the activities was an alligator tour. During the tour, the guide stopped to feed an alligator. By Lauren Campbell, Horace Mann Middle School In Costa Rica, ...
Bill would legalize fishing in Costa Rica's national parks
Tico Times
Under Threat: A group of lawmakers want to allow commercial fishing in Costa Rica's protected marine areas, shown here in purple. (Courtesy of Pretoma) Fishing is prohibited in the 0.64 percent of Costa Rica's oceans located within national parks. ...
Jamaica to Fully Implement Free Trade Agreement with Costa Rica
Inside Costa Rica
Jamaica has signaled its intention to sign off on the full implementation of the CARICOM/Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement soon. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Dr. Kenneth Baugh, said on August 9 that …
Buy a Pair of Chipkos Flip-Flops; Save Costa Rican Rainforests
Inside Costa Rica
Want to save the endangered rainforests of Costa Rica? If you like doing things differently and passively, you now have a great option. Just buy a pair of Chipkos' latest pair of flip flops. Yes, that is all you need to do, to save the rainforests. …
Destination Honeymoons on the Rise as Costa Rica Gains Popularity as a …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Escape Villas, specializing in high end vacation rentals in Costa Rica, today reports the increased number of destination honeymoons in their villas. As the rise in destination beach weddings continues, more and more newlyweds are choosing to extend …
Escaping it all for 'paradise' in Costa Rica
CNN
Pisani chronicles her adventures in the new book, "Happier Than a Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica & Living the Zero Hour Work Week." She self-published the memoir after she noticed that her stories were attracting a growing audience …
Gourmet goods 'made in Costa Rica'
Tico Times
Just take Costa Rica's distinctive pejibayes (peach palm fruits) in their warm cauldrons that greet shoppers in so many food stores and street markets. A traditional treat not considered particularly special here, the pejibaye's nutty flavor, …
Costa Rica on pace for record number of tourists
Tico Times
Almost 1.2 million international tourists visited Costa Rica during the first six months of 2011, the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) announced Monday. The 1197199 tourists that visited Costa Rica from January to June was a 6.5 percent increase …
US debt crisis threatens Costa Rica, Latin America
Tico Times
The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) issued a warning last week that the impending reduction of public debt in the US could threaten international financial reserves in Latin America, including Costa Rica. Last Tuesday, the US Congress …
Costa Rica Haven For Ecotourism
International Living News
Known the world over as one of the greenest and happiest countries in the world, Costa Rica, which literally means “rich coast”, has become an outstanding ecotourism center. In 1949, the army of Costa Rica was decommissioned in order to channel more …
Costa Rica sees 3% coffee-output rise in 2011-12
MarketWatch
By Jean Guerrero Costa Rica's coffee production is expected to rise slightly during the upcoming 2011-2012 season as farmers use profits from this season's high prices to increase their productivity, an official with the Costa Rican Coffee Institute, …
Costa Rica: the New Florida for Retirees?
Fox Business
I reached out to Christopher Howard, an author specializing in books about retirement in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico and Cuba. Howard, currently residing in Costa Rica answered the following questions via email regarding baby boomers retiring ...
Costa Rica's lone autism center hopes to expand
Tico Times
Ascopa is the only organization in Costa Rica fully dedicated to helping autistic adults and their families. Juvenal Valerio crafts a handmade agenda in one of the center's many workshops. ASCOPA is raising funds to build an integral care center and …
Costa Rica's in-vitro fertilization ban challenged
AFP
SAN JOSE — Costa Rica, a nation that takes pride in its respect for civil liberties, is being sued for failing to lift a ban on in-vitro fertilization (IVF), as it remains the only country in the Americas that prohibits the procedure. …
China-Costa Rica FTA Comes into Effect
China Briefing
2 – The free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Costa Rica – China's first such bilateral FTA with a Central American country – officially came into force on August 1. As important trading partners, both countries believe the new FTA will help …
Costa Rica Decrees Moratorium On Oil Exploration
Inside Costa Rica
Facing protestors on his first day on the job, the new minister of the Ministerio del Ambiente, Energia y Telecommnicaciones (MINAET), René Castro, issued a moratorium on oil drilling in Costa Rica for the next three years. …
What Draws People To Costa Rica?
Inside Costa Rica
Or perhaps the weather which is as diverse as the people living in Costa Rica. Maybe they come to escape the hustle, bustle of big cities to find a more laid back attitude which in some cases fringes on laziness and lethargy. …
Former Costa Rican President Mario Echandi Dies
Latin American Herald Tribune
SAN JOSE – Former President Mario Echandi Jimenez, who governed Costa Rica from 1958 to 1962, died after suffering assorted health problems over the past few years, his family said. He was 96. The funeral ceremony will be held on Sunday at the Catholic ...
Customs officials intercept destructive beetle on pineapples from Costa Rica
Los Angeles Times
US customs officials Friday said an inspection of a shipment of pineapples from Costa Rica uncovered a hitchhiker -– a destructive wood-boring beetle. The recent find of the live cerambycidae -– a type of long-horned beetle -- at the Los Angeles/Long …
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