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| San José, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 197 | |||||||||
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handing in found gun By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A young student found a homemade firearm at a Sarapiquí school Tuesday and suffered an accidental stomach wound when he tried to turn the weapon over to a teacher, said the Judicial Investigating Organization. The young victim was identified by the family name of Ramírez. Judicial agents said he was 11. Somehow the child and some companions found the weapon under an unused desk, agents said. They are looking into the case. The boy was reported in stable condition in the Hospital de Guápiles. Popular retirement author has two new editions out By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Christopher Howard, the retirement tour guide and author, reports that two of his books relating to Costa Rica are out in new editions. The first is the well-known "The New Golden Door to Retirement and Living in Costa Rica," which is now in its 16th edition. The book “Christopher Howard’s Official Guide to Costa Rican Spanish” is now out in a second edition. Howard is bullish on Costa Rican retirement. "Confronted with the spiraling cost of living in the United States and the current financial downturn, baby boomers can now retire for less, hang on to what they have left and have the time and freedom to do what they really want by moving to Costa Rica,: he said. "For many Costa Rica offers a lifestyle they could never enjoy in North America." The 680-page 16th edition (ISBN 1-881233-66-4) is $29.95 and available from Amazon.com, in bookstores through Baker & Taylor or by calling Costa Rica Books toll free 800-365-2342 Howard said the language book is prompted by his realization that Spanish is spoken differently here. Despite having an advanced degree in Spanish, having studied and lived in Mexico and having traveled to every country in Latin America Howard said he quickly realized this. First, he said he noticed that there were a lot of local expressions and vocabulary with which he was not familiar. So he set out to learn all the nuances of the local lingo. The new edition of his guidebook is the result of almost 35 years of research in the field of Spanish as a second language, he said. “Christopher Howard’s Official Guide to Costa Rican Spanish” (ISBN 1-881233-87-1) is $10.95 and available in Costa Rica through 7th Street Books, Librería Lehmann, Librería Universal and in some gift shops. Online it can be obtained through Amazon.com or www.escapeartist.com. It can also be purchased in U.S. and Canadian bookstores. Worldwide distribution is through Book Surge. Howard also has a Web site filled with tips and shortcuts for learning the language. http://www.costaricaspanish.net/ Howard also announced that his tour for potential expats would include a visit to Arenal starting next month. "We will see the best features of the lake which is close to the town of Tilarán, 20 minutes from the new hospital in Cañas, an hour and one half away from Guanacaste’s sun-drenched beaches and just a little over an hour from the city of Liberia," said Howard. The latter is one of the fastest growing cities in Costa Rica and the hub of activity in the region. It also has all of the services you’ll need including an international airport." There is a growing expat community around the lake. Cell phones to have sticker showing they work here By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
All cellular devices authorized by the telecommunications regulator will have a sticker to indicate approval by an independent laboratory. Any model sold in the country must have an all-clear to indicate it can operate freely on the country’s network as it expands. So far 57 models of cell phones, four tracking devices, and three credit card readers are authorized, said the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones. The phones cover all the major brands including smart phones, though 3G is not catching on quickly due to low-quality service and lack of interest. The authorized centers will check that the phone is compatible with the network, its displays are in Spanish and that it offers the range of functions expected of that sort of phone. Heredia road closed today By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Utility employees will be relocating poles along the south side of Universidad Nacional in Heredia today from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. So traffic police will be closing the road. The work involves cutting down a tree. The work is in response to damage to an adjacent bridge over the Río Pirro caused by recent rains.
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| San José, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 197 | |||||||||
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The family of Michael Dixon are getting support from a British member of Parliament in efforts to involve British police in the search for the missing man. The family and Syed Kamall, a Conservative Party parliamentary representative for London, plan a press conference there Friday to publicize their inability to get the London Metropolitan Police Service involved in the case, said a family representative. Dixon, now 34, vanished Oct. 18, 2009, in Tamarindo, and police initially said he drowned in the sea. The family rejects that solution, and no body ever was found. The family said they also were upset with Costa Rican authorities who have refused to ask for help from British experts. Such a request is considered an international courtesy. The family also wants to involve the International Police Agency in the search. A statement by the family representative, the missingabroad.org Web site, said that Costa Rican police will not continue the investigation unless there is new evidence. "I hope that the Costa Rican government will cooperate with the family of Michael Dixon to try and find some answers. It has been a year since the last sighting of Michael. We must not let time go by and allow people to forget Michael," Kamall, the British politician, was quoted as saying. The family has put up a Facebook page and David Dixon, the missing man's brother, traveled to Costa Rica and spent a month here trying to coordinate the search. He brought in experts from the United States and hired private investigators. There also is a Web site: www.helpfindmichaeldixon.com The family said that Michael Dixon is a British citizen who grew up in Haute Savoie, France. He studied journalism at Leeds University and went on to work at Bloomberg News and Euromoney Plc in London. He moved to Brussels in 2002 to work for RISI, a United Business Media company, they said. David Dixon lives in London. His mother and father are retired World Health |
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Organization employees who currently live in France. David Dixon has said he doubted his brother's disappearance had anything to do with his journalistic work. The family said that the British Metropolitan Police Service initially refused to help saying Michael Dixon was not a British resident. Belgian police said he was not a Belgian citizen. Interpol has not responded to family enquiries for the past eight months, the family said. Costa Rican police searched Michael Dixon's room at the Villas Macondo in Tamarindo and found it to be undisturbed. His wallet and other personal papers were there. The family representative said that evidence indicates Michael Dixon is the victim of serious crime but efforts by the Costa Rican police and Michael's family, involving air, land and sea searches, have uncovered no real clue as to what happened. The Lucie Blackman Trust is assisting the family and missingabroad.org. |
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Research teams have fanned out across the globe in search of frogs that haven't been seen for at least a decade. The coordinated hunt into remote forests, swampy fields and dark caves underscores the rapid decline of amphibians and the urgent need to protect them. Robin Moore heads the Search for the Lost Frogs Campaign, sponsored by Conservation International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. He says among the most curious on the list is the once abundant golden toad, which lived in Monteverde, Costa Rica, and disappeared in a little over a year. "In 1989, one individual male turned up at a pool waiting for mates to breed. And that was the last individual ever seen," he said. Teams are also looking for the Gastric brooding frog, last spotted in 1985. Moore says what's unique about this Australian amphibian is its way of breeding. "The females actually swallow the eggs and they develop in her stomach into small frogs which then hatch out through her mouth." Other amphibians with colorful names like the scarlet frog from Venezuela, the hula painted frog from Israel and the Rio Pescado stubfoot toad from Ecuador have been given their own search teams. But the outlook is not bright. One-third of the world's more than 6,000 amphibian species are threatened with extinction, due to disease, habitat loss, pollution and climate change, scientists estimate. Despite the odds, Moore says some teams have confirmed rediscoveries including the small brown Ivory Coast Mt. Nimba reed frog, last seen in 1967. "It's a huge discovery from a scientific and conservation perspective for the team and for us." |
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Golden toadBut Ivory Coast scientist N'Goran Kouama, who found the frog in a swampy field, worries that if people continue to destroy its habitat the frog will truly vanish. He says its rediscovery promotes a sense of pride over unique African resources. The Mt. Nimba reed frog was one of three species rediscovered in recent weeks, along with the pink-footed cave splayfoot salamander in Mexico and the florescent spotted Omaniundu reed frog in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Moore says the amphibians provide important clues about why some species have survived and others have not. More importantly, he adds their survival also draws attention to the benefits that a healthy ecosystem provides, not only for frogs, but for people. He said they regulate things such as fresh water, rainfall. "It's really our support system and we need to take care of it, not just for its good, but for our good as well." Amphibians also help control insects that spread disease and damage crops. The chemicals in their skins have been important in helping to create new drugs. Although the global campaign ends soon, it has spawned country specific projects that will continue the search. |
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A parade of trucks is an annual feature of the fiestas at San Josecito de San Isidro. Loud horns and air brakes let neighbors know about the local activities. This is San Isidro de Heredia. There are at least eight San Isidros in Costa Rica. Local organizer Alfredo Zúñiga said sales of food at the festival raised 1.6 million colons to buy construction materials for the San Josecito church. This year 150 cabezales took part, as in the tractor part of a tractor-trailer. They came from San Pablo de Heredia through San Isidro to San Josecito Sunday. Truck drivers are alerted to the chance to join the parade by a program specifically for drivers “El Club de los |
Traileros” now on
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96.3 FM, The show is hosted by Warner Cordero. The show is at 5 p.m. Tuesday night’s traffic details included a report that the bailey bridge on the Interamericana Norte at Cambronero was starting to tilt to one side. This has been one of the biggest headaches as transport officials try to keep open access to the western and northern parts of the country. Also the radio station reported that some traffic cops are apparently charging 15,000 colons for truckers to use the Aguacate highway between Atenas and Orotina, which is permanently closed to articulated vehicles. |
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operators to hear of changes in travel trends By the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Carlos Vogeler, regional director for the World Tourism Organization will discuss the changing tastes of tourism consumers at the annual Congreso Nacional de Turismo at the Radisson Europa Hotel & Conference Center today. The two-day conference, sponsored by the Cámera Nacional de Turismo, runs through Thursday. The tourism chamber said that the thrust of Vogeler's message will be the tourism trends that have developed after the world financial crisis. Some 200 tourism operators are attending the conference. Quepos baker no longer among the missing By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
A Quepos baker, once feared to be another missing expat, has turned up in Panamá. There was no immediate explanation or details, but friends in the central Pacific beach community said that Micke Joquine Franke, 48, one of the operators of the La Roca Caliente bakery, no longer was among the missing. The Judicial Investigating Organization had been called in after the man dropped from sight Sept. 19. There was no word if the man planned to return to Quepos where his pastry skills were highly valued, according to reader reports. Some freed Cuban dissidents might be going to U.S. By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Cuba's Roman Catholic Church announced last week that three more political prisoners are set to be released into exile in Spain, bringing to 39 the number freed. The U.S. State Department said it is arranging to accept a majority of political prisoners recently released from Cuba. State Department spokesman Charles Luoma-Overstreet said in a statement the U.S. Embassy in Madrid is reaching out to the released political prisoners and their families to inform them of the plan and discuss their eligibility. Last week, the Roman Catholic Church announced that three more prisoners are scheduled to be freed and sent to Spain, which would bring to 39 the number released under an agreement with the government of President Raúl Castro, the church and Madrid. Cuba has promised to release a total of 52 prisoners under the agreement, in what would be the largest mass liberation of political prisoners in recent years. The 52 were among 75 dissidents arrested and sentenced to lengthy prison terms following a government crackdown in 2003. Cuba has long maintained that it does not hold political prisoners, only mercenaries that Havana claims were working with the United States to undermine Cuban communism. |
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