Daily Archives: February 15, 2012

The Asociacion Animales de Asis will hold an adoption fair for cats and dogs Saturday at the Automercado in Heredia from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Expo Construcción y Vivienda 2012 begins this evening at the Centro de Eventos Pedregal in Belén, Heredia. The expo is sponsored by the Cámera Costarricense de Construcción. Organizers said that there will be 570 separate exhibits. The expo runs through … Continue reading →

Judicial agents searched an office of the Municipalidad de Escazú Tuesday as part of an investigation into the issuance of construction permits. The investigation began in August and involves nine employees of the municipality, said the Judicial Investigating Organization. There … Continue reading →

Now there is no excuse not to know those fish. In both languages. A Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute expert has created an iPhone application that contains bilingual species identifications, the institute said. The potential users are divers, scientists and tour … Continue reading →

The Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica says it is loaning the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad $140 million to enlarge the Cachi hydro plant in Cartago. The funds will be distributed annually with $42.4 million disbursed each year. The term of … Continue reading →

The U.S. Embassy here is joining the effort to defend Washington’s drug policy. The embassy will bring two U.S. experts here by electronic means to discuss the situation with Spanish-language reporters. They are Eric Siervo, manager for International Programs with … Continue reading →

The judiciary issued congratulatory statements Tuesday after an employee in the anti-drug prosecutor’s office was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The man, Walter Valverde Fernández, was convicted of leaking inside information to two groups of drug traffickers. The Poder … Continue reading →

The country’s public employees are poised to go out on strike today, although the percentage that will participate is uncertain. The so-called general strike is being initiated by the nation’s teachers. The Asociación Nacional de Educadores put a litany of … Continue reading →

The Costa Rican government is launching the region’s first in-depth study into the mysterious epidemic of kidney failure which has claimed the lives of thousands of sugar cane workers in Central America. Since it was first identified that high rates … Continue reading →

Investigators are classifying a Canadian woman’s death at her home in Playa de Cocos as an accident. The woman, 79-year-old Lorraine Nadon, was found dead at the foot of her stairs in her Las Begonias condominiums where she lived with … Continue reading →

The nation’s fire fighters will begin construction this month of the first fire station to be financed by a new tax. The station will be in Los Chiles in northern Costa Rica. The municipality there has donated the land not … Continue reading →

Following a nearly fatal all-terrain-vehicle accident Feb. 10 that left her with three broken limbs and bones protruding from her skin, a Minnesota vacationer was left writhing in a private hospital without treatment until her husband could come up with … Continue reading →