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New Drug Control Checkpoint Opens

THE Public Security Ministry will inaugurate a new U.S.-funded drug control checkpoint today at the Peñas Blancas station on the northern border with Nicaragua. The...

Presidency Minister To Vote in Assembly

RICARDO Toledo has announced he will resign from his post as Minister of the Presidency on April 30 and return on May 2, after...

Olympian Returns After Suspension Served

AFTER a controversial two-year ban, former Olympic and World champion swimmer Claudia Poll will return to international competition next week participating in an Olympic...

Law Penalizing Violence Against Women Advances

THE proposed law penalizing violence against women made some progress in Congress this week, as it was transferred Monday to the Constitutionality Commission for...

Deaths, Quakes Mark Easter Holy Week

DOZENS of violent deaths were reported during Semana Santa – although none was related to the 17 earthquakes that shook the country during the...

Confused Suspect Hops in Police Vehicle

A suspect in the botched robbery of a Nestlé plant was captured Wednesday after he hopped into a police vehicle, mistaking it for his...

Banco de Costa Rica Opens Exchange House

BANCO de Costa Rica (BCR) has opened a currency exchange house (casa de cambio) at its central office in downtown San José. The exchange house...

Legislative Assembly Passes Seatbelt Law

THE Legislative Assembly voted Tuesday to make seatbelt use mandatory, Assembly representatives announced Wednesday. If President Abel Pacheco signs the law, seatbelts will be required...

Photographer Introduces Technology, Travel in Exhibit

U.S. PHOTOGRAPHER Gary Kwiatek’s work juxtaposes images from around the world – churches in Cartago, the EiffelTower in Paris, geese in Freemont, Calif. and...

Art Project Recreates Villa Painting

THE seventh grade class at the CountryDay School in Escazú just completed an enlargement of the painting by J. Villa. Villas’s painting is an allegorical...

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