One of the visitor’s favorite postcards from Irazú Volcano is back. Yes, we are talking about the famous green lake that forms inside the active crater, which has reappeared at the end of the rainy season. Recent photographs provided to CRHoy.com by tourists who visited the national park show the beautiful waters. The lake located […]
Archives for October 10, 2017
Plan to give resources to Works of the Holy Spirit resurfaces
Legislator and President of the Legislative Assembly, Gonzalo Ramírez, took up a bill to allow a portion of the profits of the Social Protection Board (JPS) to be transferred to the Asociación Obras del Espíritu Santo. The initiative was originally proposed by former legislator Víctor Emilio Granados, it expired on August 9th this year, despite […]
Municipalities create strategies to fight drugs
This week, a group of 15 municipalities will develop different strategies to fight drugs in the national cantons. Part of the initiative takes into account the experience of Argentine municipalities, with a plan implemented by the Secretary of Comprehensive Policies on Drugs of the Republic of Argentina (Sedronar). Fifteen municipalities will benefit from this training, […]
New tropical wave could hit the country this weekend
The National Meteorological Institute (IMN) predicts a tropical wave will hit the country between Friday and Saturday. It would be tropical wave number 43 of the rainy season. However, at least until those days the conditions will be kept under the usual parameters for the month of October. Juan Carlos Fallas, director of the IMN, […]
100 filters will provide drinking water to about 200,000 victims of Nate
The Committee for Disaster and National Emergency Assistance (Cadena), a non-profit civil association of Costa Rican Jewish communities, will donate 100 water filters capable of providing localities with 800 liters of drinking water per day, for up to 5 years. This amount of clean water can benefit some 200,000 people affected by storm Nate. The […]
Two policemen caught trafficking drugs from Colombia and Jamaica
A total of seven men were arrested suspected of forming an organization to traffic and market cocaine and marijuana from Colombia and Jamaica. Two police officers named Rodríguez López and Elizondo Martínez are among the arrested. The organization is being investigated since mid-2016 by the Drug Control Police. According to the Office of the Deputy […]