In
the Costa Rican News - Week March 20th - 27th 2006
Costa
Rican Tax Reform hits rock bottom!!
After
years of meetings, voting and deliberation Costa Rican
legislators dealt a kiss of death to the tax reform that
was to re-event the tax wheel in Costa Rica. The legislators
stated that the way is which the reform was approved was
unconstitutional. If this is true then 4 years of deliberations,
loads of amendments and objections, millions of dollars
in legislators' wages and hard lobbying by President Abel
Pacheco in favour of his top-priority project that is
meant to reform the fiscal crisis so that many under funded
sectors: Roads, Hospitals, etc will be able to function
properly: will die a painful death.
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British
Crime experts will visit Costa Rica.
Child
Porn is currently on the rise worldwide and at the UK
National Crime Squad visit to Costa Rica this week they
stated that it is an International duty to stop this behaviour.
Rob Wall a top advisor on the UK's Child pornography crime
squad has spent the week helping Costa Rican officials
to startegise a plan to help Costa Rica with its child
porn problem. Rob Wall, along with U.K. National Crime
Squad Inspector Paul Griffiths sat down this week with
RACSA, Costa Rica's internet provider to explain what
else they can do ton stop this. They stated that such
things as filters and internationally published lists
of child pornography sites which will prohibit the downloading.
They
stated that there is no evidence that Child Porn sites
are run from Costa Rica however they were here to show
how RACSA and Costa Rica can help in the International
Prevention of child porn and abuse.
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Restricted
Access to Poas Volcano!!
Access to the famous Volcan Poas has been restricted by
park officials as eruptions started on Friday evening
These measure are just preventative for the moment as
tourists can get rather close to the volcano. The strongest
of the eruptions threw rock and sediment 150m into the
air and this is the first time in 12 years the Volcano
has erupted.
Five
more eruptions happened on Saturday and this is due to
the gas build up underneath the turquoise lake that sits
in Paos's crater.
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March
20th -27th March Exchange Rates
The
Exchange rates below are not accurate on a daily basis
but just an approximation for your benefit. For more up
to date exchanges rates please visit your local bank or
online with a currency seller.
Costa
Rican Colon
US
Dollar
Usually
in Costa Rica US Dollars or Costa Rica Colones can be
used. in popular areas and in larger shops US dollars
will be more widely accepted. However in small towns and
locally run stores only Colones will be accepted.
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