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Christopher Howard January 2005 Tours
Inland Valley Tour January 26-31
$1,299
February 2005
Inland Valley Tour February 23-26
$1,299
Central Pacific Beach Tour February 19-26
$1,899
Combination Central Pacific Beach Tour and
Inland Valley February 19-28 Tour $2,399
* All tours include a two-day Seminar
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Two New Highways Promise to Improve the
Infrastructure in the Central Pacific region
The new highway from Ciudad Colón in the Central
Valley and the other highway from Quepos to
Dominical will create a costal version of the Pan-
American highway. The trip by car from the Central
Valley to Jacó beach will take just over an hour. And
the trip from Quepos to Dominical will be less than 30
minutes. There will be a building boom in the area
and land prices are expected to soar. Many smart
investors are buying now.
Flight Information Now Available on Line
Ever gone to the airport to meet friends, only to find
that flight is delayed? What do you don? Hang around
and come back later? Need to know if your departing
flight is leaving on time?
Alterra Partners, the managers of the Juan
Santamaria International airport have finally come to
the rescue. Since the beginning, Alterra installed
television monitors at the arrivals and departures
level to give flight information, including the
telephone numbers of the airlines that have service
to the airport.Now, however, you can consult flight
information online. Arrivals and departure times of all
flights, same information on the television monitors at
the airport, are now available on line.
www.alterra.co.cr is the website that has all
information about the airport, it's facilities and
services and Alterra itself. Now, before leaving for
the airport, visit
http://www.alterra.co.cr/FIWS/index.aspx and check
on the status of your particular flight.
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| Costa Rica is Tough on Corruption |
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Former Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres has
resigned as chief executive officer of the World
Economic Forum after confirming that he received
more than $900,000 for consulting services to the
French telecommunications company Alcatel, the
forum said Friday. Furthermore, the Prosecutor Office
has admitted, yesterday, for the first time, that it
has opened an investigation to determine the nature
and relationship of the Alcatel payment to former
president José María Figueres Olsen.
A Costa Rican appeals court judge ordered the former
head of the Organization of American States, Miguel
Angel Rodríguez, jailed Friday while prosecutors
prepare corruption charges against him for allegedly
accepting kickbacks when he was the nation's
president. It appears that former Miguel Angel
Rodríguez is not happy with his current living
arrangements and has is appealing to the Sala IV -
the Constitutional Court - in a Habeas Corpus action
to return him to house arrest instead of spending the
next six months in preventive detention in La Reforma
prison.
Calderón Fournier, another former president, is also
incarcerated and facing charges of corruption.
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Where property is still affordable
Where mountains touch the sea
6% of the world's land mass
3% of the word's nature
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1 877 815 1535
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Costa
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Costa Ricans are a healthy people. The infant mortality
rate of less than 11 in 100,000 live births in Costa Rica
is lower than that in the United States. This figure is
on par with any industrialized country in the world. Life
expectancy is 76.3 years for men and 79.8 years for women.
Today, an 80 year old man has a life expectancy of at least
8 years more. This puts Costa Rica in first place in the
world for life expectancy from this age forward. Actually
it's 8.4 years. Iceland and Japan follow with 7.7 years.
The Costa Rica women at age 80 are actually expected to
live longer than the men of the same age, 9.5 years slightly
behind the women of Japan and France.
Tourism
More Tourism This Year - From January through May this year,
556,412 tourists visited Costa Rica, a 23.5 percent increase
as compared to the same period last year, according to figures
supplied by official sources at international airports
Exports
Costa Rican beer is now available in the U.S. - Black Eagle,
the U.S. company in charge of importing the beer to California,
the local firm expects to export 60,000 cases in the first
year and to take the figure to 1 million in the second one.
Market probes show that Imperial has a large acceptance
level among Californians, and that at least 1 million of
them have acquired a taste for it while visiting here.
Human development
Progress in Human Development - Costa Rica climbed just
one bit in the Human Development Index of the United Nations
Program for Development, as compared to the one disclosed
last year, but kept her steady upward trend since the Index
was first published in 1990. The assessment is based on
data from two years before and the grades range from 0 to
1 when Costa Rica was graded 0.834 in 2004, as compared
to 0.832 in 2003. The variables considered for the Index
include life expectancy, access to education, and income.
In Latin America, only Argentina and Chile did better than
Costa Rica, which is 45th among 177 nations. According to
the figures, Costa Rica is among the "countries with high
human development," since it is among the top 55 nations
in the Index.
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