Rebeca Areola, 23 years old, gave birth to twins on Saturday night while on an emergency flight from Liberia de Guanacaste until San Jose, which distance from each other is around 100 miles that usually a plane could cover within 50 minutes. Because of complicantions in pregnancy, the air-ambulance was called a few minutes after midnight on Saturday […]
Recope requested increases in gas and diesel prices
By the third time in four months, the “Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo” (Recope) requested another hike in fuel prices that, if approved, will take effect in June. The increases could be of ¢17 and ¢16 per liter in super and regular gas, respectively. It also requested adding ¢33 per liter of diesel. Recope blamed increases […]
Mechanic given 13 years in prison for hiding drug money
The Penal Court of Heredia issued a 13-years prison sentence to Hugo Miguel Ángel Jiménez Hidalgo, 46 years old, for money laundering linked to drug trafficking. The case began in October 30 of 2014, when Jiménez was at home, in San Lorenzo de Flores (Heredia), and two men arrived there and shot him in the […]
Attorney General Investigating 566 Sham Marriages
Since 2009, the Civil Registry has referred 566 marriages for investigation to the Attorney General’s Office. In 49 cases a criminal conviction has been successful, and in 70 others a criminal investigation is ongoing. In every case, the event that triggered the investigation was the marriage of a foreign national, who sought naturalization to become a citizen of Costa […]
Casa Canada/ARCR Silent Following Departure of General Manager Ryan Piercy
More than two weeks following the departure under mysterious circumstances of General Manager Ryan Piercy the Casa Canada Group and it’s division the Association of Residents of Costa Rica, ARCR Administration S.A. (or ARCR) have yet to issue a press release or public statement regarding its current management or future. The whereabouts of Piercy are […]
Costa Rica Central Bank Abandons Currency Bands for “Float”
Costa Rica Central Bank (BCCR) announced over the weekend that it will eliminate the system of maintaining an exchange rate floor and ceiling, and allow the exchange rate to “float”. A press release from the bank said that it had not intervened to change the value of the colon, outside of the bands since December […]