Until Thursday, a total of 21 municipalities indicated that they will apply the Prohibition duringEaster time, according to a survey conducted by the National Union of Local Governments (UNGL), whiel 53 municipalities indicated that they would not do so. The prohibition of the sale of liquor in the cantons is an exclusive power of the […]
Archives for April 2017
Firefighters rescued man buried by embankment in Coronado
On Thursday afternoon a man, while working on a construction, a man was trapped under an embankment in Coronado. The accident occurred in the main entrance of Barrio Sinaí, 200 meters from the flag factory. According to the Fire Department, the patient was in stable condition and semi unconscious,” when he was transferred to a […]
President Solís will resume his historian duties on April 11th
The commemoration of the Battle of Rivas will be celebrated this April 7th in Alajuela, as the date of April 11th coincides with Holy Tuesday and schools and colleges are on vacation. However, President Luis Guillermo Solís, will celebrate the heroic deed of 1856 next Tuesday at the Juan Santamaria Museum, where he will resume […]
More Cubans arrive and Costa Rica will not let them in
Dozens of Cuban migrants stranded in Panama were transported to the border with Costa Rica from a shelter in the jungle province of Darién, with no prospect of continuing their journey to the United States. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela asked the 71 Cubans to return to their country of origin or go to Colombia, […]
EE.UU. Launches 70 guided missiles against Syria
On Thursday, the United States launched at least 70 guided missiles in Syria. The Tomahawk missile attack was against a Syrian military base in Shayrat, from which the massacre against civilians would have been perpetrated. The bombing was carried out only two days after the Bashar al Asad regime attack, which used a sarin gas-like […]
“We’ll hunt them down!” threatens Maduro
Maduro updated a balance given shortly before by the vice president, Tareck El Aissami, of 21 arrests. Thirty arrests at this time and we are going to hunt them down, they are all identified. One by one they are going to fall and they go to justice,” threaten the socialist president on a radio and […]