According to the Municipality of San José (MSJ), 42,000 people per day use electronic parking meters. Installed one year ago, 68 meters control access to 2,000 parking spaces in the city. A goal of the project was to offer parking on the street at rates lower than paid parking lots. Indications are that the project […]
Archives for February 2014
Dollar reaches its highest level since July of 2010
The average price of the dollar in the Monex wholesale market Wednesday recorded its highest level since July of 2010, reaching ¢530.33 (colones to dollars rate) at the close of the day. According to data supplied by the Central Bank of Costa Rica (BCCR), the dollar’s highest point was reached on July 6, 2010, when […]
Prosecutor requests prison for U.S. citizen and Jacó investor
A Prosecutor in Garabito has requested preventative detention for Vincent Patrick Hundley, a Jacó business owner and sponsor of the second division team the Jacó Rays. The same request applies to two attorney notaries who allegedly collaborated with Hundley. All three face criminal charges of fraud and racketeering. According to the allegations in the case, […]
Johnny Araya subject of scandal for notification by tax department
Former mayor of San Jose, and PLN candidate for President Johnny Araya is receiving attention, after the tax department served him a notice on Wednesday morning. After making the notice, the director of the tax agency, Carlos Vargas, confirmed that Johnny Araya had failed to comply with a requirement to provide tax information, and would […]
Registry reported 265 fake marriages in 2013, 33 reported this year
Since the first of January, the Civil Registry had identified 33 cases of sham marriages through processing of applications for naturalization. The figure rises each year with 114 cases in 2012 and 265 in 2013. According to Luis Chinchilla, director of the Civil Registry the increase is due to better investigation and more detection. In […]
Chavista youth interrupt legislature to call for end of violence in Venezuela
On Wednesday, a group of supporters for the regime of Nicolas Maduro and Hugo Chavez interrupted a press conference organized by the youth of the National Liberation party, Libertarian Movement and the Social Christian Unity. The group carried banners and spoke out against violent repression in Venezuela. The situation got out of control when Juan […]