Archive for September 17th, 2008
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Health authorities found high fecal pollution, due to waste waters from houses, businesses and hotels, in 13 beaches. Six of them are so polluted that they are not suitable for swimming, namely Coco Beach (in the Guanacaste Pacific), Jaco, Quepos, and Tambor (in the Central Pacific), and Cieneguita and Portete (in the Caribbean). Others, where you can still swim are Tamarindo (Guanacaste), Agujas, Hermosa, and Herradura (Puntarenas), Manzanillo and Puerto Viejo (Limon). Several agencies are coordinating efforts to achieve the cleansing. “We are going to develop sanitary raids and to issue sanitary orders, whether to close or to regulate activities which generate pollution,” said Minister of Health Maria Luisa Avila.
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
The foreigners who marry Costa Ricans must prove to Immigration authorities that they live together with their spouses, if they are to live legally in Costa Rica. According to the general director of the Immigration Service Mario Zamora, the measure is to be applied in a first instance to 1,200 foreigners who married by proxy to Costa Rican and who applied for residence. The Constitutional Court ruled that marriage to a Costa Rican, by itself, does not automatically grant migratory benefits to aliens. “In order to obtain the permit to join their spouses here, they will have to prove that they know each other and that they live together,” said Zamora. “Many a mobster resorts to a marriage by proxy in order to obtain migratory benefits and live in Costa Rica; now, they won’t be able to do so,” added the Immigration boss. The measure halts what was big business for attorneys who charged up to $10,000 to arrange marriages by proxy with Costa Ricans.
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Businessmen, construction and commerce chambers, and mayors agree that there is a deceleration in the construction sector, mainly in the coastal areas, even though the employment figures do not mirror such trend. They reckon that the arrival of new investment has decreased. There are paralyzed developments and the demand for labor is lower, signs that make evident that the sector is not doing well. According to experts, this is a consequence of the mortgage crisis in the United States, the increased prices of building materials, and lower access to credit, both locally and internationally.
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