Daily Archives: November 23, 2011

Gunmen executed a 23-year-old man on a downtown street in Limón Tuesday at 2 p.m. The scene was near the Roman Catholic cathedral. The Judicial Investigatign Organization said that the man, identified by the last name of Morales, was purchasing … Continue reading →

Angered about an environmental issue, protesters marching from the Plaza de la Cultura to the Tribunales de Justicia Tuesday carried a simple motto: Justice is worth more than gold. The protesters signs and speeches attributed a shift in the court´s … Continue reading →

Motorcyclists gathered Tuesday in front of the Instituto Nacional de Seguros, blocking traffic, honking horns and revving engines to decry the 50 percent hike in their annual vehicle insurance premiums and road tax for 2012. The institute, which collects the … Continue reading →

A series of unrelated strikes and protests made Tuesday an unusual day in San José and the Central Valley. Motorcyclists, mainly messengers, gathered at the Instituto Nacional de Seguros Tuesday morning to protest increases in the obligatory insurance and the … Continue reading →

Users of the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad Acelera Internet services will be getting a refund because they were victims of an outage from Sept. 30 to Oct. 8. That was the ruling from the Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones which noted that … Continue reading →

The president has asked for the resignation of directors of the southern zone anti-poverty agency. This is the Junta de Desarrollo Regional de la Zona Sur that manages the Depósito Libre Comercial in Golfito. The agency again got low marks … Continue reading →

Fuerza Pública officers set up roadblocks in the Limón area Monday after they received reports that prisoners would try to break out of the penitentiary there. The tipsters suggested that the prisoners were to get outside help. Although there were … Continue reading →

Anti-drug agents completed several successful anti-drug operations this week, including two arrests in the Juan Santamaría airport and the seizure truck full of cocaine. The grand total from those three operations, according to the ministry: over 1,200 kilograms of cocaine … Continue reading →

The Asamblea Legislativa failed to meet again Tuesday. This was the second day in a row that lawmakers from the Partido Liberación Nacional boycotted the session. The party members did not show up, and there was no quorum. No business … Continue reading →

A long-running impasse between health authorities in Puriscal and stubborn parents over the administration of vaccines to their children may have led to a fatal horseback ride in which a foreign-born teen died. The girl, 13-year-old Nikoline Hill, was riding … Continue reading →