A traffic officer was arrested on Monday morning for allegedly abusing his authority. The judicial investigations police (OIJ) received on May 13th, a complaint from a bus driver against a 61 year old officer. The complaint alleges that the officer, while off duty in Turrialba acted with another man who claimed to be a lawyer in […]

Costa Rica has extended the ban on the Hass avocados grown in Mexico, claiming that the product is contaminated with a plague that has yet to appear in the country. Last week, US authorities approved imports of the Mexican product, even to regions of Hawaii and Puerto Rico where sunblocht disease hasn’t been recorded. The […]

The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) has invested ¢607 million in the purchase of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment to improve medical care in the Central Pacific region. Officials pointed that investment would reduce visits to hospitals in the capital by patients from the provinces who couldn’t find some medical services in their regions. The […]

President  Luis Guillermo Solís will meet with licensed taxi drivers to listen their complaints against transportation services apps like Uber, which according to taxis unions promote working informally. According to Gilberth Ureña, spokesman of a taxi drivers association, said the meeting will take place on Tuesday, June 7 at the presidential palace. Ureña said they […]

Dozens of African migrants are piling up in the border town of Los Chiles with the intention to cross to Nicaragua, for continuing north and then trying to enter into United States. Most of these migrants come from countries such as Gabon, Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They arrived by boat to Brazil […]

The constitutional court ruled in favor of a father who sued McDonald’s for barring him from using a changing table that was available only at the women’s bathroom in one of its restaurants. The administration of the restaurant told the father he should be supervised by a female employee while changing his baby at the […]