Daily Archives: January 11, 2012

Traffic engineers have made a major change at the intersection just north of the Iglesia Perpetuo Socorro in Sabana Sur. Vehicles headed east are now prohibited from turning left toward Parque la Sabana. Vehicles headed north are prohibited from turning … Continue reading →

The Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz plans to suspend electrical services to a section of Escazú that is south of Multiplaza in order to change main power lines. The outage is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The U.S. Embassy will be closed Monday, which is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a national holiday in the United States. King was the leading figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, in Memphis, … Continue reading →

The nation’s sports minister resigned Tuesday after he became involved in a scandal over free tickets for a weekend soccer event. The former minister is William Todd, who sought 2,130 free tickets for the “90 minutos por la vida” event … Continue reading →

The 2012 North American International Auto Show has opened in Detroit, Michigan. The annual showcase is the auto industry’s premier event to showcase new cars and technology. This year’s show comes amid stronger sales for Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. … Continue reading →

Palmares festival goers will be the first to be subjected to a new radar device that contains a camera. The Policía de Tránsito is getting 19 of these machines. They include audiovisual components, and officials said this means that motorists … Continue reading →

The next ice age could be delayed by tens of thousands of years due to excessive amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which disrupts Earth’s natural cycle of warming and cooling, according to a study in Nature Geoscience. … Continue reading →

The security ministry said Tuesday that in the future it will be a lot tougher for criminals to get their hands on firearms because of a directive that has gone into effect with the goal of tightening gun restrictions and … Continue reading →

The tourism chamber said that hotel occupancy during the last half of December was 4 percent higher that the year before. The chamber based its report on a survey of hotel operators. That two weeks is the beginning of the … Continue reading →

A U.S. citizen living in Sámara died from an apparent fall in his rented room. He was identified as Bruce Corbitt, 59. Investigators suspect the man slipped and fell and suffered a fatal wound to the head early Monday. Only … Continue reading →

The U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica said this week it would begin publishing a quarterly newsletter to communicate with its citizens living abroad in Costa Rica. The name of the publication is “American Connections,” and the embassy said it is … Continue reading →

Minimum wages went up Jan. 1, but most employees will not see the increase until payday at the end of this week. The increase is 3.17 percent over the salary paid in the last half of 2011. The amount was … Continue reading →