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Archives for March 31, 2017

If you want to go to San José, yo need to transfer in Heredia

March 31, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The Costa Rican Railways Institute (INCOFER) confirmed that in order to travel from Alajuela to San José, a person has to transfer to a new unit in Heredia. This involves buying a new ticket and boarding another transport unit. This was explained by María Fernanda Arias, spokeswoman for INCOFER before a consultation on the implementation […]

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Turrialba’s volcanic activity is decreasing again

March 31, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Turrialba volcano started the day with very little activity and it only recorded a slight plume of steam without expulsion of ash. Eliécer Duarte, an expert at the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), said that the volcano emanations have become extremely weak, it has expelled water gases, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen disulfide. […]

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The Legislative Assembly approved 1,297 rules with no budgetary content in the last 65 years

March 31, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The Legislative Assembly approved 1,297 rules with no budgetary content in the last 65 years. This was revealed by a study conducted by the Department of Parliamentary Services and the State of the Nation Program. The investigation was made based on the budgets approved between 1950 and 2016 . Jorge Vargas Cullell, director of the […]

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Venezuelan government: “there wasn’t a coup d’etat in our country”

March 31, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The Venezuelan government said that it was “false” that a coup d’état had been perpetrated in the country after the supreme court took over the powers of the vastly opposing parliament. It is false that a coup d’etat has taken place in Venezuela. On the contrary, its institutions have adopted legal corrections to stop the […]

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Suspects of creating a criminal network at INFOCOOP are free

March 31, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The Second Circuit of San José released those suspected of creating a criminal network that diverted more than 9 billion colones from the National Institute of Cooperative Development (INFOCOOP). The defendants are not able to leave the country, they must appear in court every fifteen days, they can’t contact witnesses and they lost the job […]

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There was a fire in a prison

March 31, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The Fire Department reported that 3 prisoners were transferred to San Juan de Dios Hospital in critical condition. The first one had airway burns, the second had burns on 25% of his body and a third had burns on 75% of his body. According to the Fire Department that attended the emergency, 4 units were […]

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