Last Tuesday, in San Bosco de Mora, a fallen tree caused an electric pole to fall on the road and it struck an ambulance. The road was completely blocked, so Diana Porras, a citizen who lives in Puriscal, couldn´t take it anymore and decided to get off the bus and walked in the rain for […]

Seals from the National Bank to tie bundles of money, security forces uniforms, ski masks and a wig were found in the house where the 5 suspects of robbing the bank in Rio Frío were arrested. On Wednesday, a 6-month detention penalty for the suspects was requested by the prosecutors. Ministry of Public Security (MPS) spokesman Carlos […]

The suspect of having committed a heinous crime against a child of 8 years old in Guácimo, was arrested on Sunday after an operation that took more than 10 hours. He has been confined in La Reforma prison. Center director Reynaldo Villalobos said that the 23 year old suspect will probably be held in the maximum security […]

The Municipality of San José (MSJ) announced that the deadline for the eviction of the Handicraft and Painting Market, located in 13th Bis Street, is on September 30th, but the sellers say that they will not give up. Juan Rodríguez, sellers’ spokesman, believes that the new administration has dealt with the issue on a “silly” […]

Sandra Cauffman, a Costa Rican engineer who is assistant director of the Earth Sciences Division of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), declared that public education is one of the critical issues that the country urgently needs to improve and added that there is a “class gap” between the educational platforms. According to Cauffman, Costa […]

The governments of Costa Rica and Japan agreed on a loan of 224 million dollars for the construction of the geothermal power plant Borinquen I in Liberia. This structure will have a capacity of 55 megawatts and will start operations in 2023. It will be the first stage of the new ICE geothermal field. During the past […]