Daily Archives: March 4, 2011

The Women’s Club of Costa Rica has its kickoff luncheon for the year Wednesday at the Aurola Holiday Inn in downtown San José. Founded in 1940, the Women’s Club of Costa Rica is one of the oldest, continuously operating service … Continue reading →

Workmen are continuing with painting the lines and placing lane markers on Ruta 32 today, and the highway will be closed from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. though Sunday, the Consejo Nacional de Vialidad said. The highway has been closed … Continue reading →

A worker in the organized crime prosecutor’s office has been remanded to jail for six months for investigation, the Poder Judicial reported. His associate, a Colombian, has the same fate. Both were detained in raids Wednesday, and investigators alleged that … Continue reading →

Legislators approved on first reading Thursday the proposed Costa Rica-China free trade treaty. Some officials are anxious to pass the agreement before the official opening of the soccer stadium that China constructed. The vote Thursday was 42 to 11. One … Continue reading →

Fuerza Pública officers have confiscated another load of counterfeit liquor and uncovered a storage location for the same commodity. Officers said they stopped a truck that was carrying 26 cases of either adulterated or bootlegged liquor in Hatillo Thursday. Employees … Continue reading →

Fuerza Pública officers tried to arrest a man who has been terrorizing his neighborhood near Cóbano Thursday, but the man rushed one officer and slashed him with a machete. Then the assailant died as a result of police bullets. The … Continue reading →

President Laura Chinchilla signed a decree Thursday that creates a massive undersea protected area around Isla del Coco in the Pacific. The undersea landscape contains mountains so the new tract is called the Área Marina de Manejo Montes Submarinos. The … Continue reading →

My name is Aaron Dowd, and I am the managing partner of Cabo Caletas Ocean & Golf Club, which is a 450-acre oceanfront master planned community located along the central Pacific coast of Costa Rica in the town of Esterillos Oeste. … Continue reading →

The Río Virilla bridge has made transport officials laughing stocks for the last year. This is the bridge on the Autopista General Cañas that has resisted repairs. At one time there was a metal plate over an expansion joint. Try … Continue reading →

The nation’s top tax collector has a message for those who have not paid their luxury home assessment. “You do not need to pay the penalty to pay the tax.” He is Francisco Villalobos Brenes, whose official title is director … Continue reading →

The finance ministry is preparing a proposed law that would simplify reporting for tax purposes, double the penalties for false reporting and also apply the 1.5 percent property transfer assessment to properties that are held in corporations. Fernando Herrero, the … Continue reading →