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Lack of Telephone Has Residents
and Tourist Upset
When does it cost ¢4.000 colones
(us$8.50) to make a local phone
call?
Residents and tourists of Nueva
Virginia, Los Ángeles y Caño
Blanco, near Siquirres, are
upset because that is what it
costs for them to make a local
phone call.
Not that the call is costly, it
is the cost to travel to and
from the only public telephones
in the area.
The shortage of telephone lines
in the area means a trip by
fishing boat to barra de
Paismina where the only the
public telephones that serve the
community of 700, are located. A
round trip to use the public
phones cost ¢4.000 colones
The other option is to travel
6km to barrio Meryland, in El
Carmen de Siquirres, where the
owners of the local grocery
store have a telephone.
Mariana Campos, an employee at
the Caño Blanco tourist office,
says that tourists to the area
are very upset at the lack of a
telephone, which means they
cannot call home to check in
with family and friends.
ICE doesn't have an answer for
the neighbours. The manager of
the local ICE office in
Siquirres was too busy to answer
calls.
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