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Route 32 will be closed for 2 hours on Tuesday

January 24, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The Pococí District Attorney’s Office will close Route 32 on Tuesday to carry out a factual reconstruction. The interruption of the transit will be 100 meters east of the entrance of Riteve in La Marina de Guápiles. The road will be closed between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. In that time, the Prosecutor’s Office will […]

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Low temperatures freeze everything in San Juan de Chicuá

January 24, 2017 by Staff News Writer

When Michael Garita opened the pipe to give water to his cow on Monday morning, there was not a drop of water left… It was not a suspension of the service or a broken pipe. The water did not come out because the pipe was frozen. Even the water from the bucket was frozen, aswell […]

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Arab Emirates to donate $10 million, which will not go to the National Budget

January 24, 2017 by Staff News Writer

President Luis Guillermo Solís explained that Costa Rica will receive a non-refundable cooperation in the amount of $10 million. The money will be used to repair aqueducts of the communities that were impacted by Hurricane Otto. That is one of the results of the official presidential tour to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Foreign Minister […]

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The INS wants to improve its relationship with its customers

January 24, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The National Insurance Institute (INS) recently implemented the Customer Relationship Management (CRM), a project with a significant investment in technology. This will allow the institution to better manage the relationship with customers. This tool will enable the INS to count on integrated information of each one of its insured, in order to have a better […]

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Turrialba Volcano maintains low activity levels

January 24, 2017 by Staff News Writer

According to the latest report by the seismographs from OVSICORI-UNA located in the vicinity of Turrialba Volcano, the colossus maintains a low-amplitude volcanic tremor, aswell as a low-frequency volcanic earthquakes. During the last 24 hours, the volcano has continuously emanated a plume of bluish gases and aerosols and very fine ash, whose height does not […]

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Residents of La Carpio frightened firefighters

January 24, 2017 by Staff News Writer

According to Luis Salas, director of Fire Operations, what happened at LA Carpio was something never seen before: a group of neighbors frightened them while they were assisting an emergency. At about 1:00 pm they received an alert for a gas leak in a house, when they went to the scene, two vehicles closed the […]

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