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Thursday, October 13, 2022

U.S. Former world surfing champion Kalani David, 24, dies while practicing in Costa Rica

Former world junior surfing champion Kalani David died this weekend on a Costa Rican beach after suffering a seizure while in the sea practicing the sport in which he excelled, friends and authorities said. He was 24 years old.

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FIFA World Cup schedule: 2022 Qatar dates, groups, daily times for games as Ecuador face hosts

The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins on Nov. 21 in what will be the first winter edition in the history of the competition. The best players in the world will take center stage in Qatar as the action runs through the final on Dec. 18. Following the draw on April 1 and the intercontinen

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He Finally Located Source of Mysterious Sound–A New Frog Species Named After His Rewilding Quest in Costa Rica

A nature-lover’s well-trained ears led to the discovery of a new species of frog, after the Costa Rican man searched for six months to find the source of a mysterious sound.

The tiny green frog was discovered by Donald Valera Soto, a naturalist and co-owner of Tapir Valley Nature

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Bus crashes in Costa Rica, nine dead and 55 rescued

SAN JOSE, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A bus crash caused by heavy rains in Costa Rica left nine dead people on Saturday night, officials said.

Heavy rains across the country caused a landslide on the Cambronero route, in the west of the country 70 km (45 miles) from the capital San Jose.

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The Sacred Morning Routine Folks in Nicoya, Costa Rica—Home to Many of the Longest-Living People on the Planet—Do Every Day

After years of drinking coffee on the reg, prepping a daily cup of joe often becomes a deeply personal (and, honestly, spiritual) experience. Whether you like your coffee black, spiked with cinnamon, or served with a splash of creamer, concocting the perfect morning brew varies from

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The Expo That Makes Ticos “Fly” Returns this October

After a two-year break due to the suspension of events due to the pandemic and as part of the process of economic reactivation and the tourism sector in Costa Rica, this October the eighth Expoviajes2022 fair returns to the country, where the Ticos who enjoy getting to know diffe

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Costa Rica Is Back, Greener and More Intense

Costa Rica recovered 40 percent of the tourism market during the pandemic thanks to a wise strategy and sanitary protocols. The destination also achieved the recovery of airlines to 30 percent.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Juan Santamaría International Airport

Juan Santamaría International Airport, Aeropuerto Internacional Juan Santamaría, is located in Alajuela about 20 km from downtown San José, Costa Rica. It is a hub airport for TACA/Lacsa, and focus city airport for Copa Airlines. It is named after Costa Rica's national hero Juan Santamaría, a courageous drummer boy who died in 1856 defending his country against forces led by US-American filibuster William Walker. The airport, which is Costa Rica's primary international airport, serves a great number of tourists from Canada, Europe and the United States. There are three other international airports in the country, but of those only the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia, Guanacaste is served by major airlines. Currently, Juan Santamaría with 4.1 million passengers, is the second busiest airport in Central America after Tocumen International Airport in Panamá.

The airport's main runway allows for operations of large, widebody aircraft. Currently some scheduled flights are operated with Airbus A330 and A340, and Boeing 747 and 767, for both passengers and freight. A Concorde landed in the year 1999 for that year's airshow. The airport's major airlines are TACA/Lacsa with its international network and TACA's subsidiary Sansa for domestic flights. The airport has also a small hangar (called the "NASA" hangar) where they keep research aircraft that operate in Costa Rica. Among the most relevant aircraft operated from this hangar is the WB-57F high altitude aircraft.

The Costa Rican government charges a $26 USD departure fee, which can be paid in cash (U.S. dollars or equivalent in Colones) or may be paid by Credit Card. The fee can be paid at the airport or in advance at most hotels and banks.

Lounges

A business/VIP lounge is located in the lower level of the main terminal, across gate 4A. 'VIP Lounge Costa Rica' is the only lounge of this kind in the Juan Santamaria airport, and is exclusively for business/first class passengers of selected airlines, travel companies, banks, Priority Pass program members. Also, any passenger can use the lounge for a fee.

A Diplomatic Receptions Room is situated in the main terminal and only open to Diplomatic visitors.

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Operations and administration

The airport was operated by Alterra Partners from 2001 to 2009 as part of a plan to improve the airport by the Costa Rican government. As of July 1, 2009, the privately owned Houston-based Canadian-American company ADC & HAS and the Brazilian company, Andrade Gutierrez Concessoes (AGC) - subsidiary of the conglomerate Andrade Gutierrez - took over the operations and administration of Alterra Partners as the previous operators and administrators (AGI, Bechtel, SRL) had mismanaged the airport and its construction and were in non-compliance of the concession contract. The debt financing was arranged through the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). In Dec 2009, Alterra Partners changed its name to AERIS Holdings, S.A. and the new operators/administrators of the concession installed a new management team with the objective of making it a world class airport. The management team is composed of Carlos Plass as CEO (former CEO of Santiago International Airport in Chile), Tom Bartlett as COO (former COO of the Houston Airport System in Houston) and Rafael Mencia as CFO (former CFO of Aerodom, the company managing the concession for Santo Domingo Airport and five other airports in the Dominican Republic). Under this management, the construction for the expansion of the terminal is on schedule and is expected to be completed by Dec 1, 2010, with part of the terminal (including the new immigration hall) to be inaugurated May 1, 2010.

Terminals, airlines and destinations

Main Terminal

The major operator in the airport is TACA/LACSA, followed by Copa Airlines, Continental Airlines and American Airlines. The following airlines have scheduled direct services to and/or from Juan Santamaría International Airport (as of September 2010):

Sansa Terminal

All domestic flights depart from the Sansa Terminal.

Airlines Destinations Terminal

Aeroméxico Mexico City M

Air Canada Toronto-Pearson M

Air Panama David M

Air Transat Seasonal: Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson M

American Airlines Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami

Seasonal: New York-JFK

Avianca operated by Lacsa Bogotá

Condor Frankfurt via Santo Domingo

Continental Airlines Houston-Intercontinental, Newark

Copa Airlines Guatemala City, Managua, Panama City, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa

Copa Airlines Colombia Bogotá, Guatemala City, Panama City

Delta Air Lines Atlanta

Frontier Airlines Seasonal: Denver

Iberia Madrid

JetBlue Airways Orlando

Spirit Airlines Fort Lauderdale

TACA Airlines Guatemala City, Mexico City, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa

TACA Airlines operated by Lacsa Bogotá, Caracas, David, Guayaquil, Havana, Lima, Los Angeles, Managua, Medellín, Miami, New York-JFK, Panama City, Quito, San Salvador, Santo Domingo

TACA Peru Lima

TACA Airlines operated by Aeroperlas Panama-Albrook [begins May 16, 2011]

TACA Regional operated by Sansa Airlines Barra del Colorado, Bocas del Toro, Coto 47, Drake Bay, Golfito, Liberia, Limon, Managua, Nosara, Palma Sur, Puerto Jimenez, Punta Islita, Quepos, Tamarindo, Tambor, Tortuguero S

US Airways Charlotte

Seasonal: Philadelphia, Phoenix

San Jose costa rica

San José, Saint Joseph", San José, is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.

Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San José is one of the youngest capital cities in Latin America by year of conception, though it was not named capital until 1823. Today it is a modern city with bustling commerce, brisk expressions of art and architecture, and spurred by the country's improved tourism industry, it is a significant destination and stopover for foreign visitors.

The population of San José Canton is 365,799, though the metropolitan area stretches beyond the canton limits and comprises a third of the country's population. San José exerts a strong influence on a wider range because of its proximity to other cities (Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago) and the country's demographic assemblage in the Central Valley.

The city lies at a mean elevation of 1,161 m above sea level, and enjoys a stable climate throughout the year, with an average temperature of 25oC (77oF) and annual precipitation of 1800 mm, more than 90% of it falling in the rainy season from May to November.

University of Santo Tomás, the first university of Costa Rica was established here in 1843. That institution maintained close ties with the Roman Catholic Church and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President Bernardo Soto Alfaro as part of a campaign to modernize public education. The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently, but Costa Rica had no university proper until 1940, when those four schools were re-united to establish the modern University of Costa Rica (UCR), during the reformist administration of President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia. San José serves as the headquarters of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The city is served by Juan Santamaría International Airport, 23 km west of downtown, in the city of Alajuela.

Transport in San Jose

Buses Private bus companies connect different areas of city with each other and the suburbs. During rush hours most buses are stuck in traffic, as in most capital cities, but in general the system is efficient and cheap. Services to other parts of the country are provided by private companies which have stations or stops at random locations spread all over the city center (there is no central bus station).

Train There are now trains to Heredia from Estación Atlantico and Belen (just south of Alajuela airport) from Estación Pacifico. These only run on weekdays between 6am to 9am and 4pm to 8pm, every half an hour. There are plans to extend services to Alajuela and Cartago, but that will probably not be for another few years. There is another train that runs from Pavas in the west to Curridabat in the east of the city, which only runs every hour very early in the morning and in the evening. There is no service at weekends.

Taxis Taxis are fairly cheap, but you should make sure they use the meter (taximetro). It starts at 550 colones for the first few kilometres and a journey from Barrio Amon to most of the bus stations costs about 1500 colones. Avoid taxis that hang around the Coca Cola area, especially those that approach you grinning and speaking in English when you get off the bus. From the airport there is a special system with orange taxis that you pay for in advance at a kiosk in arrivals. They are slightly more expensive (25$ to San Jose) but the cars are all new and they are more trustworthy.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Juan Santamaría International Airport

Juan Santamaría International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Juan Santamaría) (IATA: SJO, ICAO: MROC) is located in Alajuela about 20 km from downtown San José, Costa Rica. It is a hub airport for TACA/Lacsa, and focus city airport for Copa Airlines. It is named after Costa Rica's national hero Juan Santamaría, a courageous drummer boy who died in 1856 defending his country against forces led by US-American filibuster William Walker. The airport, which is Costa Rica's primary international airport, serves a great number of tourists from Canada, Europe and the United States. There are three other international airports in the country, but of those only the Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia, Guanacaste is served by major airlines. Currently, Juan Santamaría with 4.1 million passengers, is the second busiest airport in Central America after Tocumen International Airport in Panamá.

Aero Costa Rica

Aero Costa Rica was an airline based in Costa Rica. It has ceased operations.

Fleet and History

Aero Costa Rica ACORI, S.A. started service on May 11, 1992 with two Boeing 727-200 Ex-Pan Am (N353PA and N354PA) in route San José-Miami as its only destination network. In July 1992 flight ML 211 made and emergency landing in Grand Cayman when the flight engineer forgot to open and auxiliary fuel valve after taking off from Miami. Later that year route San José-San Pedro Sula-Orlando was inaugurated but company decided to drop it off four months later. In 1993 fleet was changed from 2 Boeing 727-200 to 2 Boeing 737-200 (N170PL and N171PL); with this flight equipment routes from San José to Atlanta (ATL) and San Andrés Islas (ADZ) were added. In the mid-1990s the airline also had a Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to San Jose (ICAO-MROC / FAA, IATA - SJO) route Due to serious financial difficulties and bad administration, both 737s were returned to the lessor at the end of 1994. In 1995 the airline purchased a Boeing 727-100 (ex-American Airlines N1974) named "Por Fin". This aircraft remais parked in Miami. The company wet-leased aircraft and crews from Falcon Air of Miami from October 1996 until July 1997,From July 1997 through September 1997 the Company Wet leased 727's (N12304 /N203AV )including crews from Nations Air Express based in Atlanta GA.Nation's Air flew routes between San Jose and Miami and Orlando during that time frame, After which it finally collapsed. Owner Calixto Chaves Zamora intended to sell the airline to a Pakistani company based in Miami and represented by a Cuban-American named Osiris Rosario. The check Chaves received had no funds and the company could not remain in business any longer.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Chinchilla Begins Naming Of Ministers and Vice-Ministers For Her Government

President-elect Laura Chinchilla has begun announcing her choice of ministers and vice-ministers as she prepares to take office on May 8th,looking within the current government for her choices.

Tuesday, the president-elect announced that Marco Vargas will be the ministro de la Presidencia. Vargas is currently the ministro de Coordinación Interinstitucional and the ministrode Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT), taking over from Karla Gonzalez who resigned after the fatal accident of the Turrucares bridge.

Mario Zamora, the current director of the Dirección de Migración y Extranjería (the immigration service) is named the vice-ministro de de Gobernación.

Mauricio Boraschi, the current director of the Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas (drug institute) will become the national commissioner against drug use.

José María Tijerino, the former Fiscal General de la República (1990-1995) as ministreo de Seguridad. Tijerino is the only new face announced so far to form the Chinchilla government.

Doña Laura said she has known Vargas and Tijerino from the Figueres Olsen administration and both are men of great integrity and hold valued experience in government and security in the case of Tijerino.

Yesterday's announcements are in addition tot he naming of Rene Castro as ministro de Relaciones Exteriores (Foregin ministry), replacing Bruno Stagno, who has been named as Costa Rica's ambassador to the United Nationas,

Chinchilla has said she is committed to filling at least half of her cabinet post with women, however, has yet to name one woman to any post.

Source:insidecostarica.com/

COSTA RICA’S FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT HAS MANY CHALLENGERS

PUTARENAS, COSTA RICA, March 11 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Laura Chinchilla, first woman to be elected president in Costa Rica will take over on May 8 a country with huge problems and social debts heaped together from former governments.

Chinchilla won on the first electoral round even when a female representative in the small 51 thousand-square-kilometer nation had never run for president from a majority party.

In the elections, she got more than 20 points ahead of Otton Solis, of the Citizens’ Action Party (Pac, by its abbreviation in Spanish) and Otto Guevara, of the Libertarian Movement Party who compiled 25.1 and 20.8 percent of votes in their favour respectively.

A population harassed by growing social insecurity, corruption and poverty gave their vote to a smart 50-year-old woman.

The Central American country, with shortly more than four million 500 thousand inhabitants has 18.5 percent of the population in poverty and saw violence skyrocket 25 percent, according to figures from the state-run National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC).

Changing that situation becomes two of the greatest challenges for the future president, who got the presidency with 46.7 percent of electors’ votes, according to analysts at Costa Rica University.

“We will have many challenges ahead in the next few years. Perhaps, the main one being the deployment of organised crime bands toward this area”, the president-elect said in her first speech to the nation.

Other necessary urgencies inherited by Chinchilla are improving the public education system, strengthening the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS, by its abbreviation in Spanish), environmental sustainability and promoting economic development, analysts said.

In education, its goal is avoiding drop-outs, improving funds for school scholarships, spreading education and making way for each school center in the country to access information and communications technologies.

Moreover, her government is committed to making more Basic Devices for Integral Assistance in health, providing the CCSS with more specialists, encouraging afternoon surgical operations and reducing a waiting list which are some of the main faults in the health.

Increasing infrastructures and creating jobs are other priorities envisioned by the new government in the country, whose work force consists of two million 121 thousand 451 people; 165 thousand 944 of them being unemployed.

Furthermore, the president-elect should manage to deal with a split Legislative Assembly in which her political grouping, the ruling National Liberation Party (PLN, by its abbreviation in Spanish), could hardly reach 23 out of 29 seats for the necessary simple minority for passing projects.

After the election returns for renewing the one-chambered Congress, the Supreme Court of Elections reported that the PLN had got a 46,8 percent win in the Legislative body.

On the other hand, the PAC, regarded the second political force in Costa Rica, saw the number of its supporters diminish by 14 percent and the PML was reaffirmed as the third party in rank.

According to analysts, the president-to-be will have no other way out than reaching agreements with opposition groupings for meeting her campaign promises.

Among the prioritised ones are those dealing with environmental topics, where she promised to arrange how the territory is used, protecting conservation areas, managing water, promoting clean energies and turning Costa Rica into the first neuter-carbon country in the world.

Likewise, Chinchilla said that she would push forward economic development making use of knowledge and implementing science and technology.

She also bets on international trade as a way for development as well as on Free Trade Treaty (FTA) with the European Union and China encouraged by outgoing president, Oscar Arias.

However, except for the initiative to crack down on increasing criminal delinquency, during her election campaign she did not present any convincing scheme to face such scourge, which is her main challenge, analysts said.

No changes are expected in fields such as citizens’ freedom.

When she was vying for the presidency, Chinchilla pointed out that she opposed depenalising abortion and gay marriage as well as leaving out Catholicism as the official state religion.

Laura Chinchilla Miranda, who was born on March 28, 1959, in San Jose, was the first vice-president of the Republic and Minister of Justice in Oscar Arias’s administration.

On March 8, she left the post for driving forward her candidacy to be president on behalf of the National Liberation Party.

But her race had started long before that. In 1990, she was a counsellor for some international bodies in Latin America and Africa in the sphere of institutional reform, especially in law reform and public security reform.

She has various publications, either in Spanish or English (books, monographies and articles) on topics dealing with law administration, citizen security and police reform.

As part of her work in the public sphere, her tenure as deputy minister of Public Security (1994-1996) and Minister of Public Security (1996-1998) are worth mentioning. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA

Source:brunei.fm/

Chinchilla presents economic ideas to Chamber of Commerce

In her first appearance at the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce since being elected president of the nation on Feb. 7, Laura Chinchilla and her economic team presented their ideas for this and coming years.

Though some sectors of the economy have begun to show signs of recovery in recent months, Chinchilla and company assured listeners that the seeds of stability must be planted first.

“Costa Rica finds itself, surprisingly, in a good position after a type of crisis that we had never experienced, and I think that, thanks to the action taken by the government of President Oscar Arias and thanks to the steps that we have taken in the financial system, we didn't see a dramatic reduction in the gross domestic product (GDP),” said Luis Liberman, Chinchilla's second vice president and a former general manager of Scotiabank. “However, we did see the unemployment rate grow by almost 4 percent. That is not acceptable. So, in our case, we are looking at the things that we need to do to establish the levels of growth necessary for people both young and old to find work and reactivate the economy.”

Liberman explained that, in order to reactivate economic growth, a Chinchilla administration will center economic efforts on three central themes: generating public investment, housing, and the development of small projects within communities and municipalities. Due to a decrease in investment in the country – both foreign and local – several sectors of the country, such as construction, experienced significant drops in production in 2009. Lieberman explained that while foreign direct investment is expected to remain steady, it would be the investment of local businesses and municipalities that boosts production in the ailing sectors.

“We need to promote a series of projects at the local and municipal levels,” he said. “Local projects are much easier than big projects and, more than that, local projects create jobs for local workers while developing the city. We hope that funds will be contributed to these projects in the short term and that this will lead to longer-term development.”

Chinchilla concluded by reiterating that economic opportunity exists in the environment sector, as further development of environmentally sustainable practices are expected to generate more jobs in the upcoming years. Throughout her campaign, Chinchilla mentioned the creation of “green” jobs through improving environmental practices as an aid to increase employment.

“Two of the biggest treasures of this country are the intelligence of the people and the wealth and beauty of the environment,” she said. “And, because of that, we must keep generating wealth by continuing to develop the great opportunity that the creation of a sustainable environment presents.”

Source:ticotimes.net/