The fifth edition of the “Costa Rica Piano Festival” will take place from July 16th to July 21st. This event that brings together a group of pianists who promise to delight the audience with their performances and to train young national and foreign musicians. The main venue will be at the School of Musical Arts […]
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Panama sentences murderer arrested in Jacó to 50 years in prison
The Panamanian justice condemned the Dominican Gilberto Ventura Ceballos to fifty years in prison for murdering five young university students in that country. Ventura, a 42-year-old dangerous international criminal, took refuge in Costa Rica for several months after escaping from a Panamanian prison. He was arrested in Jacó in September 2017, in a joint operation […]
Craft brewers come together to highlight Costa Rican product
An agreement between the Association of Craft Brewers of Costa Rica (ACACR) and High Technology Center Foundation (FunCeNAT), will allow 42 breweries to enhance the production of craft beer in Costa Rica as an innovative product. According to researchers José Pablo Quirós and Iray Mata, specialists in bioprocesses, the relationship between the National Center for […]
Taxi drivers: Government said we can create an app for us
The union of taxi drivers says the Government said they’ll use some of their offices to create an application that allows them to offer the service of transporting people, just as is done through the Uber platform. Gilberth Ureña, spokesman for the National Taxi Drivers Forum, said that this had been one of the agreements […]
Second Complaint Filed against National Restoration Legislator
The president of the Legislative Assembly, Carolina Hidalgo, filed a complaint with the Public Ministry against the National Restoration legislator Melvin Núñez. This is the second accusation against him in a matter of a week. Hidalgo confirmed that she filed the complaint last week, after legislator Floria Segreda, for alleged threats Núñez sent through WhastApp […]
Pipe Works Flooded Paseo Colón
People going through Paseo Colón yesterday had to avoid an important water leak that occurred just in front of San Juan de Dios Hospital, due to works in the sewer system. Acueductos y Alcantarillados carried out a series of works to change pipes and the contracted company broke a structure that caused, flooding Paseo Colón. […]