This Saturday, hundreds of people demonstrated against hatred and the xenophobic events of last weekend, calling for peace and solidarity with the Nicaraguans who flee their country and the violent internal crisis in that nation. At 10:00 a.m. two groups of protesters left, from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in San Pedro de Montes […]

The Spanish police reported on Sunday that they arrested seven people in Madrid and Barcelona, suspected of smuggling cocaine hidden among pineapples. The authorities seized 67 kilos of cocaine that traveled in shipments of pineapple from Costa Rica. The Spanish authorities indicated that the fruit had been emptied and the suspects placed compact cylinders with […]

A strong police deployment as well as a regulated transit in front of San Juan de Dios Hospital complicated the traffic on Paseo Colón on Sunday, as a result of a shooting that occurred in the afternoon in Pavas. There was a confrontation between several armed men, and the firemen in the area treated a […]

Three Panamanians who posed as agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to steal drugs from a Costa Rican national in Cuervito de La Cuesta de Corredores on August 17th, 2014, were sentenced to six years in prison for the crime of conspiracy to commit crimes related to drugs. Apparently, these men used uniforms […]

In order to stimulate the fishing of lionfish ( Pterois spp ), the authorities will hold a Lionfish Capture Tournament in Manzanillo from September 29th to 30th. The activity is organized Association of Artisanal Fishermen of the South Caribbean, through the Caribbean Friendship Conservation Area (Aclac) and various institutions. The event is promoted as an […]