Daily Archives: May 24, 2012

U.S citizens who attend the July 4 bash at the beer company grounds will be able to bring a non-U.S. friend. A member of the American Colony Committee board of directors confirmed this Wednesday. The committee sponsors the picnic. A.M. … Continue reading →

In addition to death and taxes, debts to the Caja Costarricense will be inevitable, if the legislature passes a bill that has been released for action. The bill is No. 17.954, and it comes in the wake of revelations of … Continue reading →

Jorge Chavarría Guzmán, the nation’s chief prosecutor, said Wednesday that he is worried that the increasing quantity of corruption cases are taxing his agency’s ability to handle them. He said that there are eight prosecutors in the anti-corruption section and … Continue reading →

Heads of the political parties in the Asamblea Legislativa have established priorities for their agenda. There are 18 bills that will receive discussion and possible votes. Among these are the revisions in the nation’s traffic law. The revision of the … Continue reading →

There were demonstrations supporting conservationist Paul Watson in Paris and Berlin Wednesday as his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society promised. Watson was present in Berlin. The event took place just several blocks where Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla was meeting with … Continue reading →

A global operation targeting individuals using social networking groups to exchange child abuse material has targeted 55 key suspects in 20 countries. The operation saw 12 children identified and removed from harm and a number of suspects arrested, said the … Continue reading →

More than 600 students, faculty, and staff of Semester at Sea, the shipboard program for study abroad, will arrive in Puerto Limón June 8 and dock at 8 a.m. as part of their 26-day academic voyage through Central and South … Continue reading →

Three persons were detained on allegations that they fabricated false immigration identifications. Two were detained near the main office of the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería in La Uruca and one was detained at a home in Hatillo. The … Continue reading →

An aide at the clinic at the Centro Penitenciario La Reforma has been detained because investigators said she reported to work with a half kilo of marijuana in her bag. Agents also searched the cell of a prisoner who was … Continue reading →

An earthquake estimated by the Red Sismológica Nacional at 3.9 took place at 10:44 a.m. Wednesday in the Gulf of Nicoya abut 18 kilometers (about 11 miles) north northwest of Jacó. The Red, based on the Universidad de Costa Rica, … Continue reading →