Officers of the National Coast Guard Service rescued a Costa Rican who was caught by the tide. The event happened on Tuesday on six-meter high cliff located in Ocotal del Coco in the district of Sardinal, Guanacaste. Apparently, Cristopher Zúñiga Blanco, 22 years old, was surprised by the tide when it suddenly rose, so he […]

Juan Carlos Bolaños and his lawyers insist on the change of precautionary measures from prison to house arrest, after their appeal was rejected on January 11th. Said resolution was appealed by Juan Marco Rivero and Fernando Vargas. Bolaños’ lawyers insist that house arrest is the best measure for their client to recover after surgery on […]

Although most Costa Ricans believe that the protection of the environment is one of the great challenges facing the country, their practices and daily habits do not match this. The survey “Citizen patterns and perceptions on the environment and conditions for change”, carried out by the State of the Nation Program, revealed that 73% of […]

Drug Control Police (PCD) officers caught an American from California with a load of marijuana extract inside the luggage at the Juan Santamaría airport in Alajuela, on Tuesday afternoon. The 24-year-old suspect named Trague traveled from San Francisco to Houston to San José. PCD agents confiscated 991 grams of marijuana (marijuana extract, wax or resin), […]

In the latest version of the bill on value added tax (VAT) sent by the Government to the Legislative Assembly in December, there was a proposal to collect the tax on card payments for using services such as Uber, Airbnb and the like. This was reported by the Ministry of Finance in a statement sent […]