The Public Prosecutor’s Office asked the Deputy Prosecutor for Probity, Transparency and Anticorruption to open a criminal case against Mauricio Boraschi, Deputy Prosecutor of Territorial Prosecutors and former Chief of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS). In a press release, the Attorney General, Emilia Navas, asked the Prosecutor’s Office for Probity to open the […]
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Indigenous people denounce the destruction of wetlands in the Northern Zone
A group of Maleku natives made a visit to the wetland sector in Caño Blanco in Guatuso a few days ago to protest about an alleged diversion of the rivers out of their natural canals. According to Marconi Lacayo, representative of the indigenous group, apparently, farmers and people who are not indigenous intend to dredge […]
Second reading approval to sanction legislators for lack of integrity
On Thursday, the Legislative Assembly approved in the second reading the constitutional reform project that allows to dismiss a legislator for lack of integrity or probity. Ottón Solís, from the Citizen Action Party (PAC), said the slow progress of the initiative in the Congress was shameful. Since 2010, the Constitutional Chamber warned about the urgency […]
Poás Volcano Park will lose 200 thousand visits per year
The new plan that regulates Poás Volcano National Park, located in Alajuela, contemplates reducing reception capacity by 50% for its reopening, which implies losing nearly 200 thousand visitors per year. According to records of the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC), in 2016 this was the second most visited park in the entire country, receiving […]
Google denies offering job to Celso Gamboa
Representatives of the company Google confirmed to CRHoy.com on Wednesday that they never offered a job to former magistrate Celso Gamboa. It is not true that Mr. Celso Gamboa has received a job offer from Google as Head of Security for Mexico or Central America and the Caribbean,” they informed by means of an email […]
Drug dispute takes hold in the eastern sector of the capital
Key points for drug trafficking in the canton of La Unión are the booty disputed by at least three drug dealing gangs in the east of the capital. The dispute over the territories has filled that canton with blood: in the last 15 months, the police have investigated at least 28 homicides and most of […]