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Reversible lane on Maundy Thursday

April 7, 2017 by Staff News Writer

On Maundy Thursday, there will be a reversible lane on Route 27 towards the Pacific. This measure aims to facilitate the massive departure of tourists to the coast towards Guanacaste and Puntarenas. On that day, the dynamic will be applied between Ciudad Colón and Pozón. Cars will be able to circulate in all lanes heading the […]

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Be careful at restaurants and bars!

April 7, 2017 by Staff News Writer

If you go to bars and restaurants, you should be careful. Many people drink liquor and use drugs at these sites because they want to do it. However, sometimes other people put drugs into people’s drinks in order to rob them, rape them, among others. Minnely Quirós, an expert at the Institute of Alcoholism and […]

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4 crashes affected the train service

April 7, 2017 by Staff News Writer

INCOFER announced tha the train service to San Antonio de Belén, Cartago and Alajuela will be suspended because yesterday there were four crashes that affected some railways. However, it won’t last the entire day, but some specific hours. According to INCOFER Twitter information, the canceled services are: Belén-San José route (5 pm) Cartago-San José route […]

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The Internet Fair Use Policy and its new change

April 7, 2017 by Staff News Writer

A month ago, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) started applying the Internet Fair Use Policy. This states that when customers spend their contract data package, they will have to surf the Internet at the minimum speed, even if the month is not over. Initially the minimum speed was 128 kilobytes per second (kbps), but […]

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Club Venue owner: “they were not inside the bar”

April 7, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Club Venue administrators, where supposedly 15 young people were intoxicated with a drug, affirm that there is no certainty that those affected were clients of their bar. The owner, who identified himself as Eliécer, said that they closed at 4:00 am and that until that moment they did not report any disturbance. That’s the reason […]

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k2: the “zombie” drug

April 7, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Walking like a zombie or run naked? These are some of the effects when youn people use the K2 drug. This synthetic product is capable of raising blood pressure or provoking heart attacks. The K2, known as ‘Spice’ or synthetic marijuana, conquered consumers in 2015. What is it exactly? It is a blend of herbs […]

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