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...bring some agreement if we can secure the border first." One change from the earlier Pence plan is that people would only be eligible if they were from countries that were parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Central Americans Free Trade Agreement - Canada. Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic...
...this the end of online gambling's lucky streak? A day after the arrest in a Dallas airport of David Carruthers, ceo of Internet gaming firm BETonSPORTS, authorities last week charged the 48-year-old, along with 10 others connected to the Costa Rica?based company, [an error occurred while processing this directive] with racketeering conspiracy relating to the illegal provision of sports betting in the U.S. Complying with a court order, the firm also suspended services to the U.S., home to 85% of its business. Shares in rival operators tumbled over fears of a U.S. crackdown on firms taking...
...Monday, federal prosecutors announced the indictment of BETonSPORTS CEO David Carruthers, who was charged with racketeering conspiracy, along with the indictment of 10 others connected to the Costa Rica-based company. Carruthers, 48, was nabbed a day earlier by FBI and IRS agents in Dallas, as he headed for Costa Rica from London, where the company is listed...
...will keep European snowbirds coming, but foreign buyers are already scarcer. "Until last year we were selling 20 to 25 properties, mostly to British, but now it is down to 18 to 20 a month," says Francisco Toro, director of Mark-Sol real estate agency in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. "When we get a client now, we must cosset him and treat him like gold dust. We have to work harder and spend more money on publicity." The influx of foreign cash has its darker side, too. Arrests earlier this year of 25 people in Marbella - including...
...says Ray, 61. "I blush now when I think what we must have looked like." But they liked it, and they kept coming back. In the late 1980s they bought a holiday apartment for around €30,000 in [an error occurred while processing this directive] Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol, which was fine while their two daughters were young, but then their standards rose. "The holiday complex was rather noisy in summer, with disco music and children running around, and the apartment was too small for a permanent home," says Anne, 60. Then in 2002, when there...