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Archives for March 22, 2017

Oil reaches the lowest price of the year

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Crude oil fell to its lowest price of the year in New York on a market worried about the offer on the eve of the United States release its weekly report on crude oil reserves. The light sweet crude (WTI) price fell 88 cents to $ 47.34 on the last day of contract deals for […]

These are the changes of the new Costa Rican passport

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The Immigration Department started printing new passports, which come with three changes aimed at increasing the security measures of the documents. The following pictures show the changes: This is the F series and it has been printing since the beginning of March. The lot consists of 400 thousand passports. In 2016, only 267,346 passport requests […]

Collection of corporate tax will start on July 1st

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On Tuesday afternoon, the Ministry of Finance announced from the Governing Council that the collection of corporation tax will start on July 1st. The law, which was approved by the Legislative Assembly, has already been signed but it still needs to be issued in the official newspaper La Gaceta. Once it is published, there is […]

Frenchman arrested for apparently shooting taxi

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Officers of Garabito’s Public Force in Puntarenas arrested a man who allegedly attempted to flee after a collision. This same person apparently threatened and fired a gun at a taxi. According to preliminary reports, a complaint alerted the officers about a person who tried to flee after colliding with a taxi. As they went to […]

Children also need vision screenings

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Many people believe that vision problems show up over the years, due to old age and other factors. However, children also suffer from this type of problems and need to be tested from a young age. Despite the discomfort caused by sight limitations, children often hide them or do not realize they have them, which […]