This Tuesday May 17, Chilean musicians will light up Teatro Nacional by offering a concert at noon. Within the program “Ventana al mundo” (Window to the world) that counts with the support of the Chilean embassy, the artists will play a concert of violin and piano. Yvanka Milosevic Lira and Alexandros Stavros Jusakos will bring […]
Archives for May 15, 2016
Agencies promote building bus terminals in San José
Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transporte (MOPT), the Consejo de Transporte Público (CTP) and the Municipality of San José, have subscribed to an agreement for improving access to public transportation. This is the first step to develop public-private alliances leading to “Sociedades Públicas de Economías Mixtas”, a scheme in which the MOPT looks to foster construction […]
Power cuts are due this Monday and Tuesday
The Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz (CNFL) announced that will do maintenance operations to electrical grids this Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 of May. Power cuts are expected to affect Tibás, La Uruca, San José and Santa Ana. Today is scheduled that CNFL’s teams will be working in Llorente de Tibás, from the old […]
Women gave birth twins inside a flying aircraft
Rebeca Areola, 23 years old, gave birth to twins on Saturday night while on an emergency flight from Liberia de Guanacaste until San Jose, which distance from each other is around 100 miles that usually a plane could cover within 50 minutes. Because of complicantions in pregnancy, the air-ambulance was called a few minutes after midnight on Saturday […]
Recope requested increases in gas and diesel prices
By the third time in four months, the “Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo” (Recope) requested another hike in fuel prices that, if approved, will take effect in June. The increases could be of ¢17 and ¢16 per liter in super and regular gas, respectively. It also requested adding ¢33 per liter of diesel. Recope blamed increases […]
Mechanic given 13 years in prison for hiding drug money
The Penal Court of Heredia issued a 13-years prison sentence to Hugo Miguel Ángel Jiménez Hidalgo, 46 years old, for money laundering linked to drug trafficking. The case began in October 30 of 2014, when Jiménez was at home, in San Lorenzo de Flores (Heredia), and two men arrived there and shot him in the […]