A U.S. man was charged in Australia after $6.05 million in cash was found in seven suitcases in the Sydney apartment where he was staying. Costa Rican police are investigating.
“These results confirm that with the organization and the size of PLN, we are guaranteed a triumph in the first round,” Johnny Araya's campaign manager said. But is that what the poll showed?
Swiss Travel, Veinsa, the Costa Rican Social Security System's (Caja) union and Caja administrators are the latest targets of investigations into alleged electoral code violations.
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) alerted its customers this week about fraudulent text messages sent to Kolbi cellphones that automatically added charges to the accounts of those who responded.
Work on expanding the Panama Canal will continue through at least next week after the construction consortium officially extended the deadline until Feb. 1 to resolve a dispute over $1.6 billion in cost overruns. The deadline had been set for this past Monday.
San José and 12 other cantons have a dry law on the books that would prevent liquor sales during upcoming presidential and legislative elections on Feb. 2, the National Union of Local Governments declared Thursday afternoon. However, San José authorities told CRHoy that the law is tedious and seems unnecessary, and they likely won't enforce it.
