Daily Archives: September 23, 2011

The nation’s budgetary watchdog issued a blistering report Thursday critical of the Junta Desarrollo Regional de la Zona Sur. Among the criticism was that the Depósito Comercial de Golfito lacks maintenance and lacks a plan to develop the arrivals of … Continue reading →

Heavily armed police and immigration officials descended on a section of San José known as Tierra Dominicana Thursday afternoon. Despite the name, those detained for being in the country illegally were Nicaraguans and Colombians. This is the section on Avenida … Continue reading →

Eight Costa Ricans with background in maritime shipping have been detained as members of a drug gang. The eight are accused of using their jobs and contacts to modify seagoing containers to hide drugs and then putting the modified containers … Continue reading →

When a man born in Colombia arrived at Juan Santamaría airport Wednesday, anti-drug police were waiting and gave him and his luggage close scrutiny. They said they found $204,540 in $100, $50 and $20 bills. The money was hidden in … Continue reading →

Some 80 families living along a highway that goes from Puerto Caldera to Esparza were getting flooded out by road runoff. To solve the problem, the Consejo Nacional de Vialidad put in 2 kilometers (about 1.25 miles) of a giant … Continue reading →

A handful of government entities from the Patronato Nacional de la Infancia to Radiográfica Costarricense S.A. are sharing in the speed trap windfall. The Ministerio de Obras Pública y Transportes released a list of who gets what Thursday. The Cruz … Continue reading →

President Laura Chinchilla told the U.N. General Assembly Thursday that Central America is the victim of a new and terrible aggression. She meant drugs. “It has generated insecurity, debilitated institutions, corrupted officials, driven addiction, truncated the lives of thousands of … Continue reading →

There is no reason to be bored this weekend. Events range from a guitar concert to an English language book sale to Shakespeare to a benefit for Parque Nacional Corcovado to the world-class Georgian National Ballet from Tbilisi. With a … Continue reading →