At about 5:53 p.m. on Monday, Emilia Navas Aparicio was sworn in as the new prosecutor general of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. With the message of endorsement of Carlos Chinchilla, president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Navas vowed to maintain the transparent work that she initiated in October of last year when she was […]
Archives for March 2018
Authorities deny opening Turrialba Volcano to the public
The National Commission of Emergencies (CNE) denied an information spread on Monday morning about a possible opening of Turrialba Volcano to the public. According to Blas Sánchez, a geologist from the CNE, access to the volcano’s summit has never been authorized. Since 2012, it has restricted access by recommendation of the Technical Advisory Committee on […]
Strong earthquake hits several areas of the country
A strong earthquake occurred at 3:43 p.m. on Monday afternoon. The earthquake was perceived in Tibás, los Sitios de Moravia, Jacó, Oreamuno, Escazú, Sabana, Poás, Guadalupe, Tres Ríos, Alajuela, Orotina, Naranjo, Puriscal and Puntarenas, among others. According to the National Volcanological and Seismological Observatory (OVSICORI), the telluric movement had an intensity of 4.6, and the […]
More than $150 thousand dollars found in Spaniard’s suitcase
of Capitals section and officers of the Air Surveillance Service, arrested a 42-year-old man of Spanish nationality on Monday morning. According to the preliminary report, the agents were performing a visual check at the Juan Santamaría International Airport, when the subject apparently got nervous. Therefore, he was taken to a room, but when investigators checked […]
AyA will do sewer pipe work in San José
The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers informed that it will rehabilitate several sections of the sanitary sewer network in San José. Starting on Monday, the works were scheduled to begin on Calle 24, between avenues 2 and 4 (duration 3 weeks). Once the work in this section is completed, the closure will be […]
Drug mules now swallow money too
The police authorities of Mexico and Colombia warned that now drug mules hired by traffickers not only swallow drugs but also dollars. According to the newspapers El Universal de México and El Tiempo de Colombia, in just two months, 10 Colombians were caught with total of $ 500,000 from Madrid and Mexico City in their […]