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
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 […]
The Sunset Festival 2017 will be held in Tamarindo!
Starting on January 5th, the community of Tamarindo will be filled with music, art and gastronomy with the first edition of the Sunset Festival 2017. It will take place at Langosta Beach Club from 4:00 pm to 1 am On January 6th, the party will start at noon in the pool at the Tamarindo Vista […]
Tired of being a “desk slave”, a Costa Rican man decided to travel the world
Neftalí Loria was tired of the routine. He could not be a “desk slave” anymore and 15 months ago he decided to start the greatest adventure of his life: to travel around the world with a camera and capture the best landscapes on the planet. Loría worked designing and programming websites. However, he decided to […]
61,000 people over 40 years old are unemployed
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 […]
Design Drugs: Increasingly Popular Among Costa Rican
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 […]