14 July 2008
EMERGING COUNTRIES ATTRACTING MAJOR HOTEL COMPANIES FOR BRANDED RESIDENCES
Central American Markets Undergo Billion Dollar Development   Last update: 2:42 p.m. EDT July 14, 2008 NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Jul 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Concord Group's ( www.theconcordgroup.com ) analysis of recent development projects indicates international wealth is driving the development of luxury resorts and associated hotel-branded residences in a ...

06 July 2008
TELECOM COMPETITION GETTING READY FOR COSTA RICA
A number of international telecommunications companies are packing their bags ready for their foray into Costa Rica following the approval of the law on Monday that effectively breaks the monopoly on telecommunications in the country that has been held by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) for the last 60 years. According to a report by the Spanish daily, Al Día, compani...

05 July 2008
ON RIO NIO, FISH GONE WILD FOR COLORFUL FLOWER TIES
UPALA, Costa Rica — The trees on the banks of the Rio Niño, with names like roble de sabana, corteza and mimosa, flower with many yellow and pink blooms. When the wind blows, the blossoms drift into the river, where machaca, a type of tenacious and sharp-toothed fish, seize upon the nectar-rich flowers. Most of the anglers on the Rio Niño try to catch machaca with spinnin...

04 July 2008
BIG-HEARTED DANIEL TO HELP THE POOR IN COSTA RICA
A TEENAGER from Birkenhead is proving that even those from the most difficult of backgrounds can be an inspiration to us all. Daniel Rooke spent much of his school life being bullied and looking after his mum, and as a result he left education with no qualifications. Although a prime candidate for getting into trouble, he has never been on the wrong side of the law, and in two weeks time...

04 July 2008
HEAVY TRUCKS BLAMED FOR CONGESTION AFTER RUSH HOURS
Drivers around the major routes of San José can agree on one thing, traffic this past week during morning and afternoon "horas picos" (rush hours) has been lighter than normal, little to no congestion on the General Cañas, moving around the downtown core is a breeze and getting to and from the airport a snap. And can also agree that one of the major causes of most of t...

03 July 2008
IX CENTRAL AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS IN COSTA RICA
Geologists from the entire American Continent will meet this week in Costa Rica to discuss the geo-scientific role in the war against global warming and the protection of ground water supplies from residential expansion, in an effort to decide what is the role of geology in the well being of humanity. These discussions, together with the presentation of various investigations, are part of the IX ...

03 July 2008
COSTA RICA LOOKS TO NEW ENERGY SOURCES TO SATISFY NEEDS
ICE, Costa Rica’s state-owned power company, is looking for new energy sources to fuel the country. As the need for new forms of energy creation become more intense and immediate, Costa Rica has mobilized to meet these concerns. In a country known for bureaucracy and too much paperwork, restrictions have actually been reduced, allowing ICE to build future hydroelectric power plants an i...

02 July 2008
EXHIBITION TO CELEBRATE 200 YEARS OF COSTA RICA COFFEE
Coffee and Costa Rica go back a long way, indeed, about 200 years back. Since its introduction to the county, coffee has been strongly connected to its economical, political, social and cultural growth. Offering perfect conditions, such as rich volcanic soils and high natural fertilization, optimal altitude, a unique distribution of rainfall and mild temperatures year round, it did not take long...

01 July 2008
MIKE YOUNG TO DESIGN NEW GOLF COURSE IN COSTA RICA
Country Club of Liberia Expected to Open in Fall 2009 Following his highly successful, oceanfront Hacienda Pinilla Golf Club near Santa Cruz, Athens-based golf course architect Mike Young has been hired to design another course in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. The Jormar Corporation, a company based in the capital city of San Jose that has developed residential and commercial real...

30 June 2008
RESTORATION OF A TROPICAL RAIN FOREST ECOSYSTEM SUCCESSFUL ON SMALL-SCALE
Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rain forests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Sciences (BTI) on the Cornell campus are attempting what many thought was impossible -- restoring a tropical rain forest ecosystem. When the researchers planted worn-out cattle pastures in Costa Rica with a sampling of local trees in the early 1990s, native species of ...

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