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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
 (TBT) The United States government is to make available $4.2 million to help Costa Rica step up its fight against drug trafficking, the Vice-Minister of Public Security announced in Guanacaste this week.
The money is to be used in the repair and maintenance of National Coast Guard patrol boats.
As part of the deal, the US government will also donate a...
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Monday, 01 September 2008 |
 (Pro Tamarindo) We had a very successful security meeting on Thursday night Aug 28 th at Sukkha restaurant in the Garden Plaza.
Capitan Cruz spoke regarding the need to sustain the police in Tamarindo. He is getting pressure from Santa Cruz regarding all the officers and equipment that are now here in Tamarindo. Other areas have been making requests for what we have. In the past 8 months, since the town has been able to keep the police here, we have been able to keep the officers and vehicles. If, however, we can’t...
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Friday, 29 August 2008 |
 (TBT) Conservation is a war. Just listen to the rhetoric.
Environmentalists argue at how developers “rape and pillage” the land, while others wonder at the prospect and feasibility of sabotage.
Yet, when it comes to conservative strategies under attack, accounts of environmentalists being verbally threatened in Costa Rica are not uncommon.
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
 (TBT) The National Coast Guard has opened a new station, alongside the Murciélago Police School in Northern Guanacaste.
Colonel Martín Arias, the Director of the National Coast Guard Service, said the sub-station had been set up primarily to help police the waters around the Santa Rosa National Park.
“We did not have the desired protection for the national parks...
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
 (TTT) A group of architects has donated plans to build a state-of-the-art police station for Tamarindo, a booming tourist town on Costa Rica’s northern Pacific coast. Community leaders now just need the money to build it. Tamarindo’s squad of 20 police officers –including officials from the National Police, Tourism Police and Municipal Police – has been operating out of a local hotel, Cabinas Maleko, since December.
When the office that had been donated temporarily by a developer...
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
 (TBT) Comptroller Cites Lack of Organization As Biggest Problem
A truckload of illegally-cut, mostly native hardwood worth up to $30,000, was confiscated by police in a small village near Tamarindo last week.
It was the second time within a week that police had moved on illegally-cut timber being transported through the area.
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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
 (TBT) Police say they have detained two of Guanacaste’s most important drug dealers.
The two men were detained in a joint operation by specialized forces from the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), the Directorate of Specialized Investigations (DIE), the Canine (K-9) unit of the Ministry of Security, Immigration Police and Transit police as well as local officers of the Fuerza Pública.
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
(TBT) Tamarindo’s police are at risk of losing their home base within town, as well as their police-issued vehicles, the Tamarindo Association (APMT) announced this week.
“We need $15,000 by the end of the year to keep the police where they are, or else their motorcycles and car will be taken and put somewhere else,” Federico Amador, the Executive Director of the Asociación de Pro Mejoras de Tamarindo, told a town meeting Wednesday.
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
 (Jimmy D) I recently returned from a trip to Tamarindo Costa Rica. Initially I intended to stay for three evenings in Tamarindo, and then planned to travel to Montezuma for the next 5 days. On the evening of April 6th a man knocked on my hotel door around 7pm.
I opened the door to find a man holding a gun in my face. He entered my room, turned on a water faucet and demanded money, my wallet and papers. I was packing, and my belongings were in different locations.
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