The US airline Sun Country announced that it will increase its flights to Daniel Oduber International Airport, in Liberia, Guanacaste. Starting in December, Sun Country will go from 38 to 53 flights from the twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul (in Minnesota, USA) to Guanacaste. The plan will run until March 2019. The 53 […]
Archives for August 2018
Volunteers planted 75 trees in La Sabana
As part of a project for the rearrangement of La Sabana Metropolitan Park, more than 150 volunteers planted about 75 trees on Saturday. This was the third planting day that takes place this year and this time the volunteers came from the Costa Rican Gerontological Association (Ageco). Now, the project has more than 3,702 volunteers […]
San José screams against hatred and discrimination
This Saturday, hundreds of people demonstrated against hatred and the xenophobic events of last weekend, calling for peace and solidarity with the Nicaraguans who flee their country and the violent internal crisis in that nation. At 10:00 a.m. two groups of protesters left, from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in San Pedro de Montes […]
Spain arrested suspects of transporting cocaine hidden in pineapples from Costa Rica
The Spanish police reported on Sunday that they arrested seven people in Madrid and Barcelona, suspected of smuggling cocaine hidden among pineapples. The authorities seized 67 kilos of cocaine that traveled in shipments of pineapple from Costa Rica. The Spanish authorities indicated that the fruit had been emptied and the suspects placed compact cylinders with […]
Why is transit regulated by the police near San Juan de Dios Hospital?
A strong police deployment as well as a regulated transit in front of San Juan de Dios Hospital complicated the traffic on Paseo Colón on Sunday, as a result of a shooting that occurred in the afternoon in Pavas. There was a confrontation between several armed men, and the firemen in the area treated a […]
“DEA agents” condemned for stealing drugs from Costa Rican
Three Panamanians who posed as agents of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to steal drugs from a Costa Rican national in Cuervito de La Cuesta de Corredores on August 17th, 2014, were sentenced to six years in prison for the crime of conspiracy to commit crimes related to drugs. Apparently, these men used uniforms […]