On February 27th, the electronic surveillance of prisoners officially started: it is being conducted through ankle bracelets (anklets) that are already being used by 8 people. According to the Ministry of Justice, 860 million colones were invested for the acquisition of 270 devices. People who may wear the bracelets are prisoners with less-than-6-year sentences, without […]
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Beware! Choppy sea in the Caribbean
The Center for Marine and Limnology Science Research reported that a high pressure system in the North Atlantic is accelerating the wind in the Caribbean and in the North Pacific of Costa Rica, which causes choppy sea in these regions. According to Omar Lizano, an oceanographer from that institution, there will be a very dangerous […]
Ottón Solís: “If you want to take me to the courts, do it, but this is corruption!”
Legislator Ottón Solís did not remain silent and replied to Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs Carmen Muñoz: she challenged Solís and Epsy Campbell to prove that she is “a corrupt person” and asks them to denounce her as “God commands”. Solís insists that the incentives that Muñoz received during the first year of government are […]
Deputy minister Muñoz challenged legislators Ottón Solís and Epsy Campbell to take her to the court
Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs Carmen Muñoz challenged, through her Facebook account, legislators Ottón Solís and Epsy Campbell to take her once and for all to the courts to decide if the employment incentive payment she received at the beginning of the current Administration was a corruption case. The public challenge implies that legislators must […]
Theoretical driving course for illiterate people will start in April
Starting on March 1st, the General Direction of Road Education of the MOPT will enable the registration for the theoretical driving course for illiterate people. The course will take place in April in San José, San Carlos, Limón and Guápiles. The MOPT will offer people who have not passed the second cycle of elementary education […]
The Congress refused to process a draft law through a fast-track procedure
The Congress refused to process a draft law through a fast-track procedure so that corruption offenses do not prescribe. 5 legislators did not support a proposal made by legislator Patricia Mora, from Frente Amplio, to dispense with the due process and put it in the first place of discussion of the legislative plenary. Those who […]