The country remains on alert due to heavy rains and high speed of the winds. The Caribbean and the North Zone are under yellow alert, while the North Pacific, Central and Central Valley issued a green alert. The National Meteorological Institute (IMN) predicted that by December 7th, the speed of wind gusts would between 80 […]
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This is Eligio Bishop, cult leader expelled from Costa Rica
Eligio Bishop calls himself God and he is the leader of a cult called “Carbon Nation”, which was expelled from Panama this week. He already had problems with the authorities in Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but his Central American journey came to an end, after he was allegedly linked to sexual crimes in the United […]
Orotina Airport won’t be built
Is the international airport of Orotina a project that was born dead? Not even the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation is convinced of the need to build such an ambitious air terminal. The answer is yet to come, but to date all the signs indicate that the initiative will not even take off from […]
Director of Fiscal Police under investigation for signing “false justification” for Celso Gamboa
The Deputy Prosecutor’s Office for Probity, Transparency and Anti-Corruption started an investigation for the crime of ideological falsehood against the director of the Fiscal Control Police, Irving Malespín, because he allegedly signed a false justification in the name of that institution so that the former deputy minister of Sala Tercera, Celso Gamboa, justified an absence […]
¢4-billion plane will face drug traffickers in Costa Rica
The Ministry of Public Security presented the aircraft valued at more than ¢4 billion colones purchased to fight drug trafficking: the King Air 250, registration MSP-002, which was manufactured in 2018. The capacity is for four passengers and it is expected to perform special work against drug trafficking in the country. The plane has a […]
Executive withdraws ROP reform from extraordinary sessions
The Executive Branch withdrew the bill that would allow workers to fully withdraw the supplementary pension at the time of retirement from extraordinary sessions of the Legislative Assembly. This was confirmed on Thursday by the Minister of the Presidency, Víctor Morales Mora, who indicated this was done at the request of the National Restoration Party […]