Boca Town This is a great place. Bocas del Toro is a small group of islands off the Caribbean side of Panama. The main town is a town—flat and slow; perfect for shambling around. It is very hot and nobody moves very quickly. It has many services for the tourists and the large number of […]
Letters
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Puerto Viejo
Norval, Mike and I have come to the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, and thank christ the net is full of photos to swipe: my Canon SX110 camera up and quit working; a look on the interconnector shows many people complaining about the problem my camera suddenly has. The same thing happened with my Dell […]
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Saprissa vs LDA
I was walking around the Central Market area in Alajuela, and in the window of a junky accessory store (sort of a Central America version of Ardene—much smaller) I saw a mauve and white striped plastic ring which appealed much to my stunted 14-year-old fashion sense, so I went in and asked to see it. […]
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Gates & Dogs
Norval Collins Mike Sangster Norval Collins has a condo in Alajuela. He and Mike Sangster are here. The Condominiums Mana have an electric gate by the road and 24 hour security (as many places do) in the form of Eduardo and David, who have brown para-military uniforms, aviator sunglasses, guns and beltsfull of bullets. They […]
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Historic Properties
The value of the past As a person who loves to support the idea of Halifax as a caring, open-minded and somewhat sentimental city, I have to ask the question: Why don’t we value our historic properties? You would think we would be up in arms about losing so many historic buildings in one year, […]
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mla spending spree
In defense of Preyra I’m writing in response to Gerry Walsh’s claptrap (Letters, February 11), of my own volition, without the knowledge of Leonard Preyra or any other MLA. I happen to believe in our democratic system, as flawed as it may be, and I am sick and tired of people like Dr. Walsh tearing […]
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Juan, el negro VS Jane, ella blanca!
We took a bus into San Jose (30 minutes, 400 colones [.76CDN]) and after errands and a museum visit took another out the other side of the capital, to Coronado. Norval had shoes to deliver. A friend of a friend has a son with size 16 feet and a pair of shoes had been sent […]
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World Turns Weirdly
The Republic of Costa Rica (pronounced coast-a, not cost-a, as I have been doing my whole life) is in Central America, bounded on the north by Nicaragua, on the south by Panama, on the east by the Caribbean Sea and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The ISO 3166-1 designations for Costa Rica are […]
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The MOCA
Mark Rothko’s “No. 301, 1959″Oh, The Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s on Grand Street in downtown LA, where lots of people don’t seem to go, but should. It’s 30 years old and to celebrate, has a huge, exhausting show.
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Dexter: Protect the protected
Shame on Darrell Dexter’s NDPs for betraying our trust and handing over our protected land to commercial industry—all wildlife, especially seals, deserves protection. To add insult to injury, the ones footing the bill for this commercial activity will be the Canadian taxpayer. Enough is enough—let’s keep protected land protected! —Leif Vernest, Burlington NS
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Boffo Bousquet’s tax reform
I am finally getting around to writing about Tim Bousquet and property tax reform. I have followed his writings in The Coast since he started writing about the issue. Bousquet has managed to do what a journalist is supposed to do! He did not pretend to adhere to any phony standard of journalistic objectivity, he […]
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A kind of monster
Thanks, Bruce Wark, for your editorial (“Supremely unjust,” February 4) on the Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr. Aside from doubts that Khadr did kill an American army medic, the whole scenario is a philosphical minefield. If Khadr did kill someone in battle, why is it being called “murder”? Because if he’s a suspected murderer, then […]