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 […]
Archives for May 2016
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 […]
Doctors targeted by authorities for sharp increase in rates
The Superintendencia General de Seguros (SUGESE) and the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC) demanded accountability from Colegio de Médicos y Cirujanos, so that they explained the method used to set the increase in medical professional fees in force since May, 2nd. Tomás Solye, insurance superintendent, requested studies that justify the rate adjustment, and […]
Owl with broken wing rescued
An owl, who apparently clashed against a recently placed cable line in Sarapiquí, and as a result, fractured one of its wings, was rescued this week. Now, it requires surgery and 3 to 4 months of recovery to be released in the wild again. Oropopo owls need the forest to survive and do not like […]