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Get your license, plate and vehicle back now

January 3, 2017 by Staff News Writer

If your license, plate or vehicle were confiscated after December 23rd, pay attention. The offices of the Road Safety Council (COSEVI) are open since January 2nd, so you can start the process for the return of the confiscated items. The Department of Customer Service in La Uruca will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 […]

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Police operations to deal with insurance agency assailants

January 3, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The security forces are conducting operations in the sector Tibás to find the men who robbed an insurance agency that distributes products from the National Insurance Institute (INS). Although the preliminary report stated that it was the branch of the National Insurance Institute (INS), the incident occurred in an agency that provides services to this […]

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61,000 people over 40 years old are unemployed

January 2, 2017 by Staff News Writer

61,000 people over 40 years old and 142,000 people between 15 and 35 years old spent New Year’s Eve with a shoestring budget. The tragedy of unemployment hit them during 2016 and now they are part of a statistic understood only by those with an empty cupboard, hungry children and a row of bills to […]

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Design Drugs: Increasingly Popular Among Costa Rican

January 2, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Bath salts, legal highs, herbal highs, La Flaca, K2 and Spice are types of drugs designed to make people fly on a dangerous, possibly one-way journey. These new psychoactive substances are increasingly popular, but hardly controlled. Freddy Arias, associate professor of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Costa Rica and Chairman of the […]

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10 vehicles were burned in Liberia’s Transit facility

January 2, 2017 by Staff News Writer

On Monday morning, the Fire Department put out a raging fire in campus facilities of the Traffic Police in Liberia, where several vehicles were burned. The initial report indicates that at least 10 vehicles were burned, aswell as some accumulated junk in the place. The emergency was taken care of by four units of the […]

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62% of the population believes the country cannot defeat narcos

January 2, 2017 by Staff News Writer

According to the results of the “2016 News” survey by the Faculty of Statistics at the University of Costa Rica, 62% of Costa Ricans say the country has little or no ability to solve the drug problem. The study states that only 36.8% of the population think that national authorities have the ability to solve […]

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