The Board of Directors of the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR) appointed Eduardo Ramírez Castro as interim general manager and Jorge Alvarado Campos and Álvaro Vindas Garita as interim assistant managers of this institution. The appointment is effective as of Monday and will continue as long as the precautionary measures imposed by the Public Prosecutor’s […]
Archives for November 7, 2017
Woman was arrested when trying to flee Costa Rican justice
A Costa Rican woman named Ovares Navarro was arrested by the immigration authorities when she was trying to leave the country. She tried to leave Costa Rican soil by the Peñas Blancas border, despite having an arrest warrant against her. As reported by the Directorate of Migration and Immigration, through the Press Office, the control […]
Tico pleads guilty in the US for selling fake ED pills
A Costa Rican named Navarro Quesada pleaded guilty to US justice for crimes of mail fraud and money laundering. This was acknowledged by the 41-year-old subject, before Judge Donetta W. Ambrose, in charge of the Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania. Navarro was arrested last February at the Adolfo Suárez-Barajas airport in Madrid, following […]
About 850 national and international doctors meet in Congress
From Monday until Friday, the National Medical Congress will held in its 79th edition. It is part of a call made by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Costa Rica and this time it is held in Garabito. Marino Ramírez, coordinator of the Congress, explained that this time the theme is “Climate Change and […]
Prosecutor will chase corrupt officials regardless of the position
The Public Prosecutor’s Office assured that the crimes of corruption in the country will be persecuted relentlessly, regardless of the position of the accused. This was stated by the acting general prosecutor, Emilia Navas. The institution published on Twitter Navas statement on Monday morning, after a busy weekend when seven people involved in the cementazo […]
IMN: 2017 was the wettest year of the last five years
The National Meteorological Institute (IMN) reported that in the North Pacific it rained 35% more than the average for this rainy season, between March and October. These conditions were caused by the impact of climatic phenomena, such as tropical storm Nate. That increase of 35% translates into 510 millimeters (mm) of rainwater. In other areas, […]