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Archives for August 28, 2017

Alert: there are people posing as Calderón Guardia Hospital employees

August 28, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Authorities from the Calderón Guardia Hospital issued an alert to the population about people posing as officials from the medical center to get into homes. You should not let people who are not properly identified as officials of this institution into your home. This alert comes after a case of an alleged female official who […]

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Micro and small companies may be exonerated from tax

August 28, 2017 by Staff News Writer

While a lot of people are struggling for the dissolution of their anonymous societies, there is another very important legal issue that they cannot forget. On September 1st, the collection of the new Tax on Legal Entities will be reintroduced under the Law on Tax on Legal Entities. The collection is now done by the […]

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Inauguration of National Police Academy donated by the Government of China

August 28, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The new National Police Academy will have a capacity to house 810 police officers. It is composed of 29 buildings that make up the complex located in La Rita de Pococí. The work is valued at 12 billion colones, nine of which were donated by the People’s Republic of China. The National Police Academy has […]

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Luisa Ortega: “Costa Rica is the flagship of Human Rights, that’s why I’m here”

August 28, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Luisa Ortega Díaz, former Venezuelan attorney general, said that before leaving her country in mid-August 2017 she was persecuted for months by representatives of the government of Nicolás Maduro. Ortega, who is visiting Costa Rica, served as a Venezuelan prosecutor from December 13th, 2007 until August 5th this year. That day she was stripped of […]

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Third victim of the brutal crime of Laguna de Zarcero died

August 28, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The third victim of the brutal attack in Laguna de Zarcero on August 5th died on Monday afternoon. Gustavo Durán Rojas was hospitalized at Hospital México. He was a painter and a farmer known as “Pofis”. He passed away 23 day after the attack. On the day of the incident, a Nicaraguan man identified as […]

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Wonderful natural beauty display in the Gulf of Nicoya

August 28, 2017 by Staff News Writer

At 3:30 on Monday afternoon, a resident of Puntarenas captured these marvelous images of two waterspouts that formed on the sea. The event was recorded by a man named Guevara and it happened in front of Costa de Pájaros, near the waters of the Gulf of Nicoya. Apparently, Guevara lives in Costa de Pájaros and […]

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