Written by Claire Saylor
Countdown to total shutdown in San Jose over Easter weekend.
The city of San Jose is just about closed for the weekend. The final buses will depart the city by 3pm today in route for northern and beach destinations. With bars and liquor sales shutting down at midnight last night, supermarkets and inner city transportation on a limited schedule and just about every single private and public business and bank closed up, San Jose has become a veritable ghost town.
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Filed under: Costa Rica News on March 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
Written by JohnK
Controversy over Donations to Preserve Turtle Nesting Grounds in Costa Rica.
For the past four years, The Leatherback Trust (TLT) and Costa Rica’s government agency, the Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía (MINAE) have worked together to protect the endangered leatherback turtle. TLT is a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to protecting this species. In 2004, the two entities agreed to join their efforts to raise funds and buy back privately-owned land that is thought to be intrusive to the turtles’ nesting grounds.
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Filed under: Costa Rican Wildlife on March 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Written by Erin Raub
Guanacaste’s changing landscape is highlighted by the addition of Solarium.
As one of the fastest-growing real estate markets in the nation and a favorite of many national and international vacationers, the Guanacaste region is a hot area, and not just as measured by the mercury. Indeed, Guanacaste is a growing area for recreational tourism, and has grown so quickly in the past years that many local workers are relocating to the area for its available jobs. In the wake of such development, Edica’s Solarium Project was conceived.
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Filed under: Business on March 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Written by Erin Raub
Planned water outage to affect 60,000 Costa Ricans.
This week brings Semana Santa celebrations to Costa Rica - chiverre and seafood on the table, Crucifixion reenactment parades on the streets, and church bells
In addition to this week’s phone number change, about 60,000 Central Valley residents need to expect another: if you live in Cartago centro, or the cantons of San José, La Unión, Curridabat, Desamparados, Goicoechea, Moravia, or Vásquez de Coronodo, you should expect to be without water this Saturday, March 22, from 7 a.m. until about 2 p.m.
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Filed under: Costa Rica News on March 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Written by Mireille Darras
Costa Rica phone numbers to include 8th digit.
This year, Easter Week, or Semana Santa, is focusing on a rather non spiritual matter. An eighth digit will be added to all current telephone numbers starting on Thursday after midnight to make room for many more future telephone lines. It has been recommended to switch off cellular phones and to reboot them immediately once the switch has been made.
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Filed under: Costa Rica News on March 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Written by Erin Raub
Police found FARC money in Costa Rican couple’s house.
On Friday, March 14, Costa Rican police raided the Santa Bárbara de Heredia home of Francisco Gutierrez and Cruz Prado. The couple — Gutierrez, a naturalized Costa Rican from Spain and Prado a native Costa Rican — had been storing a safe in their home since 1997. The $480,000 stash was property of the Columbian rebel group FARC.
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Filed under: Costa Rica News on March 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Written by JohnK
Semana Santa in Costa Rica is a time for spiritual reflection.
‘Semana Santa’, Costa Rica’s version of Spring Break when just about the entire country comes to a standstill, began this past Monday. This weeklong event was historically a religious holiday and although a few still closely follow the Catholic traditions, it has become something else entirely for most people today. Some government offices and businesses have closed up for the week, while the majority of businesses will have their last day today, including banks, and be closed until the following Monday. It is actually illegal to obligate anyone to work on those days as they are declared national holidays.
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Filed under: Travel on March 19th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Written by JohnK
Central America hopes to lose tariffs on exports to the EU.
Representatives from Central America (CA) and the European Union (EU) met yesterday, March 17th, to negotiate new trade policy. The meeting is a preliminary part of the Association Agreement between the EU and the six countries that make up the Central American isthmus (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama). One of the key elements being proposed by the Central American committee is the lowering of tariffs imposed on certain agricultural products to allow for more competitive trade.
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Filed under: Costa Rica News on March 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Written by JohnK
New renewable energy project brings Internet to Chirripo Costa Rica
Visitors of the Crestones shelter in the Chirripó National Park can now chat online as Internet Access is reaching Costa Rica’s most inhospitable areas. At over 3,400 meters above sea level, the ‘Centro Ambientalista el Páramo’ or Crestones shelter as it’s commonly called, cannot receive electric power from traditional land lines so alternative energy sources were required.
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Filed under: Costa Rica News on March 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
Written by Claire Saylor
There are plenty of activities planned this weekend in Costa Rica.
I noticed that this weekend is packed with events throughout the country, so I thought I would do a quick summary of everything that might be of interest to our readers. From flower shows to surf tournaments to some exciting concert series, there’s no excuse not to get out and do something this weekend! (March 14 to 16)
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Filed under: Living on March 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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