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For Rent: Cartagena apartments

Here is the new website for Mery Salence, it is not finished yet, but here is the link:

www.colombiarental.com/rentals/index.htm

I have a interest in this website, as she rents my company apts. ...

Question for Peter regarding site layout

If you are trying to raise more money from advertising, would it not be better to have the chameleon option as option 2, that way anybody who has not created an account with PBH is subject to more addvertising, than those that have?

Hunter ...

Volcanic Eruption In Colombia

Over Next 72 Hours 'High Probability'
by Mitch Marconi
Nov 12, 2005

The Galeras volcano could have an eruption at any moment according to Julian Villaruel, director of the Colombian Institute of Geology and Mines.
The spokesman for the Volcanoes and Seismologic Observatory of Pasto [1], Colombia, explained that the Galeras volcano has registered a level two activity in a scale of 1 to 4, which means that an eruption is likely to happen in days or wee ...

OAS to Conduct Mine-Clearing Operations in Colombia

Nov. 9 2005

Press Release - Organization of American States

The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Colombian government will begin de-mining operations this week in the South American country. This initial phase, which will run for approximately two months in Mamonal, located in the Department of Bolívar, involves as well the destruction of unexploded ordnance.

Some 30 landmine fields scattered across Colombia are under by surveillance ...

A second dead Italian?

This is the first I have heard of this story, unless the report has the dates wrong, I know about the one from 6 months ago:

Police recover body of Italian killed in Colombia
BOGOTA (AP) – The body of an Italian tourist believed to have been murdered by as-sailants after they stole his money has been recovered in a remote region in northern Colombia, police said.

Three suspects have been arrested in the killing of the Italian identified as ...

Colombia re-branding?

It also mentions that Colombia gets 700,000 tourists a year, first time I have ever seen a figure on the tourist numbers, don,t know how accurate it is:

From Friday's Globe and Mail

Tired of its image as a country of gun-toting guerrillas and narco-traffickers, Colombia is attempting to "rebrand" itself on the back of another Latin cliché -- passion.

Tearing a page from the State of Virginia's "Virginia is for lovers" playbook, the South American c ...

ethanol fuel production starts in Colombia

From the the dailyjournalonline.com

Colombia begins first ethanol production for fuel
BOGOTA – Colombia’s first cane sugar ethanol plant began production in Friday, with output of 300,000 liters a day in the southwestern province of Cauca, the government said.

The $20 million Ingenio del Cauca plant owned by businessman Carlos Ardila is the first of five plants with a total investment of $100 million which should begin operation over the next few months. ...

New Telecom Broadband Service

My office in Ctg is getting connected at the moment, the service has just started in 34 cities but initially Barranquilla and Medellin are not included.

The following link has the list of the 34 cities:

http://internet.telecom.com.co/banda-ancha/cobertura.php

The prices of the different conections are as follows:

128Kb
$ 65,000 mes $75,400 IVA included.

256Kb
$ 75,000 mes $87,000 IVA included.
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3 wanted IRA trainers

Have just turned up in the Irish Republic, apparently a reporter did a interview with them there according to the BBC.

Hunter

When turmoil spells a property bargain

Here is a interesting report by the International Herald Tribune, I know for afact that in some areas in Ctg property prices have gone up by 300% in the last two years:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/02/news/retrouble.php

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Bargain hunters take note. There are lush beachfront lots available on a beautiful Caribbean bay for dirt-cheap prices.

There is only one catch: the prop ...

platano...Colombian inflation

Had a quick look for the thread where you were asking about the Colombian inflation figure, from Bloomberg:

Colombia Inflation Slows in April on Strengthening Peso
May 1 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's rate of inflation slowed in April as the strengthening peso made imported goods cheaper.

Consumer prices fell to 0.44 percent from 0.77 percent in March, the government's statistics agency said today in Bogota. Inflation in the 12 months through April was 5.01 perc ...

Dating site

[28 Feb 2005. This thread is now locked. Like moths to a flame...we've seen it all before...2nd verse, same as the 1st...and on and on. -Moderators]

I know Peter doesn't want to turn this site into a dating site, but the reality is, that you are going to keep getting posts on the general forum. You are going to have to keep deleting them etc.

Why not just give them their own forum, like the Politics & The War, I very rarely go that forum and it would be the same as ...

60 New Hotels

Just thought I would post this, taken from Hotels magazine:

Some 70 Hotel Projects To Be Developed in Colombia in 2005 - Tourism Deputy Minister

La Republica - Colombia

A multinational hotel sector company will build at least six hotels in Colombia, and some 60 new hotel projects, including small and medium-sized ones, will be developed in 2005 in the country, Tourism Deputy Minister Carlos Zarruk said on January 15, 2005.
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Colombia Abductions Probably Fall to Least in 8 Years

From Bloomberg.com
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Colombia, where kidnappings are frequent enough to hurt the economy, probably had its fewest reported abductions since 1996 last year after President Alvaro Uribe improved security against armed rebels.

Kidnappings fell 41 percent to about 1,300 in 2004, according to an estimate by the Bogota-based Security and Democracy Foundation, a watchdog group that monit ...

NSS / MSS Nokia Engineer needed in Colombia

Just came across this link, so I thought I would post it here:

http://www.cellular-news.com/recruitment/details.php?jobid=3702

Hunter

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