 |
 |
Costa Rica Your daily |
 |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
|
|
 |
| A.M. Costa Rica Second newspage |
 |
||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
|
|
|||||||||
 |
| Costa Rica Expertise Ltd http://crexpertise.com E-mail info@crexpertise.com Tel:506-256-8585 Fax:506-256-7575 |
 |
 Click HERE for
great
hotel discounts
|
|
 U.S. Geological Survey-national earthquake
center map
Red dot shows estimated location of
quake
Quake takes place in Upala
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
An earthquake that both Costa Rican and U.S. experts agree had a magnitude of 5.0 took place at 6:46 a.m.Wednesday in northern Costa Rica close to the Nicaragua border. The location was 15 kilometers (about 9 miles) north of San Rafael de Guatuso in the canton of Upala, said the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica. Despite the magnitude, there was no report of damage or injuries. The area is mainly populated by farming and cattle operations. The cause was attributed to interplate friction. 1910 earthquake remembered By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The devastating 1910 earthquake will be remembered next week in the community that was destroyed. The Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica is hosting schoolchildren next Wednesday and Thursday, May 6, at the Casa de la Ciudad where a photographic exposition is being arranged. The public university is based in Cartago. Friday night, May 7, a nighttime tour is being arranged in coordination with local architects and those of the municipality. Monday, May 10, the 100th anniversary of the earthquake that may have killed 1,200 persons, there is a 4 p.m. roundtable discussion. The topic is the architecture and heritage of the city in light of the 100th anniversary. Luis Guillermo Coronado Céspedes and Álvaro Rivera Chacón will lecture May 12 at 4 p.m. on memories of the earthquake. Our reader's opinion
More Arizona supportby a frequent traveler Dear A.M. Costa Rica: People just love to blame the USA. I read that Arizona is practicing NAZIism and other Communist activities by wanting to look at peoples proof of citizenship. I have noticed that Mexico is one of the countries that is making the statement. Mexico also has checkpoints and also stops non-Latino looking persons. It seems that if a policeman wishes to stop you for speeding and he asks that driver and perhaps the occupants of the car to show their proof of citizenship that you are somehow violating their privacy. Well - I have driven through Mexico, Guatemala. and all other Central American countries, and I have been stopped by their local police and asked to show my passport AND proof that the car is legal in that specific country. I have never complained about it (I have always been legal) at all. I do not know of another Gringo that has complained. Was I stopped because I do not look like a "local?" Possibly. Does it make any difference? I say no. ALL countries try to keep the illegals out. Including Costa Rica and Panamá. The illegals take the jobs away from the locals or are perhaps transporting drugs Keep it up Arizona!!! Utah says that they are going to be joining you shortly. Frank Yates
Playa La Barqueta, Panamá
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
 |
| A.M. Costa Rica third newspage |
 |
||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
|
|
|||||||||
| New international airport terminal is nearly completed |
|
|
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The new construction of Juan Santamaría airport will be able to handle 12 million passengers a year, about four times the current flow. Transportation officials have extrapolated the passenger arrivals and departures at the airport and figure that the new terminal will reach its capacity in 2030. The airport was in the news Wednesday because President Óscar Arias Sánchez visited to see the work that has been completed. The work represents a $30 million investment, and the visit Wednesday highlighted the end of the first step. That was the construction of a new terminal building. This is the terminal the international travelers will use. It is 9,000 square meters in three levels. That's about 96,900 square feet. Of interest to expat air travelers is that the immigration booths have been increased 60 percent to 28 positions. These are on the first floor. The old airport has long been considered a bottleneck in international travel, as Arias noted in his visit. Arias leaves office in 10 days. |
The terminal's second level has the
security entrances and x-ray
machines. There also are commercial areas and offices of state agencies
and the airport police. The new terminal is more than four years behind schedule. The former concession holder at the airport, Alterra Partners, ran into financial trouble and Aeris Holding Costa Rica S. A., a local manifestation of Houston Airport Systems, bought out the concession. The new firm was able to borrow $45 million to complete the first stage. The Alterra saga was a long, politically charged one. Construction was frozen for a time because Alterra ran out of money. Not all the first stage work is finished, but there was enough for Arias to take credit for himself and his administration. The rest of the first-state work should be done next month. The new terminal also has more counter space for airline companies. The second stage includes new boarding areas. Stages three and four include a new domestic terminal and a new cargo handling facility. |
| Leonardo is revived in a spectacular of dance tonight |
|
|
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian painter and scientist, is not known to have been a choreographer, but he lives again in "Leonardo" by local dance expert Joshua Cienfuegos of the Compañía Nacional de Danza. "Leonardo" is described as a dance spectacular that presents excerpts from the work of Da Vinci. This and other dancers will share the program and present works tonight at 8 o'clock through Sunday. The Sunday show will be earlier at 5 p.m. The event is a celebration of the Día Internacional de la Danza. The shows will be in the Teatro de la Danza, which is in the Centro Nacional de la Cultura, the culture ministry, on Avenida 7 east of Parque España. There also will be segments of tap, ballroom, ballet, Flamenco and dances of India, said the ministry. The national dance company is also organizing a series of classes for today to help would-be performers. |
 Ministerio de Cultural, Juventud y
Deportes photo
This is part of the 'Leonardo' performance. |
| Objection over gate and guards prevails at Sala IV |
|
|
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Sala IV constitutional court has ordered the Municipalidad de Belén to eliminate a gate and a traffic bump at the entrance to Residencial Bosques de Doña Rosa, according to the Poder Judicial. A resident complained that he was delayed in driving to his home because a guardhouse had been erected and there was a manually operated gate at the entrance to the subdivision. He complained to the Sala IV. The man, identified by the last names of Rojas Fortado |
said he insists
on free access in the public right-of-way. Gates and a checkpoint with
a guard are measures of security that many communities have. It was unclear why the guards did not recognize the man as a resident and allow him to pass without showing identification every time. He said visitors had been obstructed, too. The court decision applies just to this case, but it certainly indicated how the court would rule on similar issues if a resident of a gated community complained. |
 |
 |
| You need to see Costa Rican tourism information HERE! |
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
| A.M. Costa Rica fourth news page |
|
||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| San José, Costa Rica, Thursday, April 29, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 83 | |||||||||
 |
xx |
 |
| Fatty foods become a Sala IV
constitutional court case |
||
|
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
An Escazú woman has successfully argued that the health officials should force fast food restaurants to list the salt and transfat content of foods. The woman with the last names of Jara Víquez said that the Ministerio de Salud was not adequately controlling the fast food places. She said the food outlets used too much salt and serve drinks sweetened with sugar, according to a summary provided by the Poder Judicial. The Sala IV constitutional court gave the health ministry two months to come up with a regulation about the fat used in the preparation of foods. |
The health
ministry will have to give instructions to its inspectors to
explain to food workers how to use grease and oils. In addition the
court ordered educational campaigns to tell citizens about the negative
effects of eating foods with saturated fats and transfats. Although the woman who filed the complaint seemed to be targeting fast food restaurants, the use of fried foods and excessive oil seems to be routine in the smaller restaurants in the country. A.M. Costa Rica has reported that burger, taco and fried chicken outlets fry with transfats that are less costly and less likely to become rancid. |
|
| Refurbished art musuem will be opened
to public Monday |
||
|
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes is reopening the Museo de Arte Costarricense Monday with a 10 a.m. ceremony. The museum is in the former airport terminal in Parque la Sabana, the former international airport. The museum closed its doors at Christmastime in 2008 for what was planned to be a year-long restoration. The work |
cost in excess of
$600,000. The entire roof of the structure was to be replaced as was the electrical and telephone systems. A security system was to be installed, too. Also being restored was the the old airport control tower. New floors were to be installed and the terraces were to be waterproofed. Parque la Sabana is the spot where John F. Kennedy landed in 1963 before the airport became a municipal park. A short time later, the airport became the park. |
|
| Instability in nation's skies dumps 5
inches on Liberia |
||
|
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Instability still rules in the skies over Costa Rica, and just ask the folks who live in Liberia. The automatic weather station at Oduber airport reported 85.6 millimeters (3.37 inches) of rain to 7 a.m. Wednesday and 41.9 millimeters (1.65 inches) thereafter. That's five inches or 127.5 millimeters. The Instituto Meteorológical Nacional said that Liberia has |
received the
greatest amount of rainfall for the month of April since 1953. And the
month is not over. Similar conditions are expected today with cloudy skies and rain. Most of the rest of the country got little rain Wednesday. A measurable amount of a bit more than 2 millimeters fell in the early evening in San José. But the humidity was oppressive all day. |
|
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
| A.M. Costa Rica fifth news page |
 |
||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
|
|
|||||||||
 |
 |
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
| A.M. Costa Rica sixth news page |
|||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About us |
|
|
|
|||||||||
Latin American news Please reload page if feed does not appear promptly |
Dancing
light reported in sky over Playas del Coco By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
There was another case of a dancing object in the sky, this time over Playas del Coco Tuesday night. An Expat who lives in a valley above the community reported that he saw a bright light in the northwest about 9 p.m. The light vanished and then reappeared in the southwest and then darted eastward and zigzagged back and forth before reappearing due west. A couple of minutes later the expat said that the object streaked eastward, darted back and forth some more and then disappeared. "Has anyone else reported an unexplainable light over Playas del Coco tonight?" the expat e-mailed. "We saw something that we first thought was a private jet then a lightning bug but due to the speed and distance it flew from north to south then east and often disappearing for a few seconds then reappearing elsewhere moving again. I've not seen any thing like this in my 67 years." A.M. Costa Rica has captured some daytime unexplained objects and published them. The newspaper has speculated that unidentified high-performance aircraft are using the country as a crossing point between the Atlantic and Pacific because the nation has no warplanes to intercept them. Any more reports of the Playas del Coco sighting or any explanations would be welcome. editor@amcostarica.com Fake domestic worker blamed for six thefts By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A 25-year-old woman spent a year pretending to be a domestic worker while she set up homeowners for thefts, according to the Judicial Investigating Organization. The woman, who has the last names of Arce Arce, was detained Wednesday morning by judicial agents in San Pablo de Heredia. Agents said that the woman would encounter homeowners on the street and give them a hard-luck story when she offered to work in their home. Once hired, she would spend a few days working as she managed to locate the valuables in the home, agents said. There are six active complaints, although there may be more cases. The homes mainly were in San Pablo, Barva and San Rafael de Heredia. Judicial agents estimated that the thefts amounted to about 5 million colons or about $9,900. They said that they found sales receipts in the woman's home where she had sold or pawned some jewelry |
| Latin American news feeds are disabled on
archived pages.
|
|
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
