A Nicaraguan man died on Saturday night, after being shot by two guys in Los Lirios neighborhood in Limón. According to the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ), the man named Archibald, 53, was outside his home inspecting a security camera, when a vehicle arrived with two men who got off and made multiple shots, wounding him […]

Of the seven members that make up the Board of the Bank of Costa Rica, there are four that investigate the case of the credit granted to Chinese cement importer Juan Carlos Bolaños. Francisco Molina, Alberto Raven, Mónica Segnini and Evita Arguedas were the ones who denounced within the Board an alleged plan of Bolaños […]

Due to maintenance work at the coasting terminal, four ferry services between Puntarenas and Playa Naranjo will be suspended from October 2nd to October 3rd. The authorities of the Port Maritime Division of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport reported that the trips to be suspended are the ones that leave at 7:00 p.m. […]

Turrialba Volcano registered two considerable explosions on Thursday, according to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI). The first occurred at 5:30 a.m., whose ash and gases plume rose more than 500 meters above the crater. The second event was recorded at 8:25 a.m. and generated a gas plume that rose more than […]

On Thursday morning, the People’s and Community Development Bank auctioned off three properties of Juan Carlos Bolaños Rojas, a Chinese cement importer. The properties were part of Trust I-5005/2015 of Banco Improsa and were signed to guarantee a loan for $4,457,352.60 granted to Bolaños. As the cement importer failed to pay the loan, the bank […]

Through a videoconference, an American reported to the Criminal Court of Quepos how she was raped by a man named Cortés in Costa Rica, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison. It all happened on April 20th, 2006 at Manuel Antonio beach in the evening, when five men, including Cortés, approached a couple who […]