Legislator Fabricio Alvarado, from Partido de Restauración Nacional, urged the approval of a bill that would penalize child abuse. The legislator asked the heads of the parliamentary factions and the Board of the Legislative Assembly to support the request to convene the initiative to the extraordinary sessions of the Congress. The project sets penalties that […]
Archives for March 10, 2017
The most dangerous areas of Costa Rica were revealed
The Observatory of Violence from the Vice Ministry of Peace presented the second Catalog Record: Atlas of crime 2016, where the areas with more robberies, rapes and homicides were revealed. The data were provided by the Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) and they are presented through districts. According to Jairo Vargas, director of the General Directorate […]
Cruel attack against a woman in Naranjo
According to Carlos Hidalgo, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security, one day after Women’s Day, a woman was killed by her romantic partner in Palmitos de Naranjo, 250 meters from the cemetery of that canton of Alajuela. Hidalgo said the aggressor had fathered two children with the victim. One of the children witnessed […]
French-Swiss firm LafargeHolcim is ready to sell cement for Donald Trump’s wall
French-Swiss LafargeHolcim declared that it was ready to sell cement for infrastructure projects in the United States and the wall that President Donald Trump plans to build on the border with Mexico to prevent illegal immigration. The project, estimated at several tens of billions of dollars, is at the heart of a diplomatic crisis between […]
The rail-transport system will be modernized… some day
The rail-transport system will be modernized… some day. Although president Luis Guillermo Solís declared that the goal was to have a better rail-transport system in 2017 or 2018, Cristian Vargas, executive president of the Costa Rican Railroad Institute (INCOFER), said that authorities will need decades to have a modern service. The project is known as […]
A 61-year-old Guatemalan was transporting 53 kilos of cocaine
The Drug Control Police intercepted a 61-year-old Guatemalan surnamed Millinedo Galindo, who was driving a truck. After checking it, officers found 53 kilos of cocaine. The drug was hidden in the bottom of the container. The operation took place in La Cruz, Guanacaste. According to the authorities, the vehicle intended to go to Nicaragua. The […]