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Mid-year vacation is beginning on a soggy note 29 Jun 2013 | 08:23 am
The much-awaiting mid-year vacation is starting under skies weather expert call unstable. The little summer of San Juan appears to be over after a handful of sunny days. The forecast for today is for ...
Voters may get chance to decide on same-sex unions 29 Jun 2013 | 08:22 am
A campaign is being launched to hold a referendum to legalize same-sex marriages. That was announced Thursday by an organization called Frente por los Derechos Igualitarios. The organization said it w...
Vice minister making rounds to encourage enforcement 29 Jun 2013 | 08:21 am
Patrons may doubt it but there really is an agency in charge of inspecting buses. It is the Departamento de Inspección y Control. Officials from this agency and a vice minister of transport have been ...
New money laundering probe involves funds from Venezuela 29 Jun 2013 | 08:20 am
Money laundering investigators conducted searches Thursday in a case in which agents believe money from Venezuela passed through Costa Rican bank accounts before going elsewhere. Agents searched the h...
Canadian frigate joining Caribbean drug patrols 29 Jun 2013 | 08:19 am
The HMCS Ottawa has left Esquimalt, British Columbia, to campaign against drug traffickers in the Caribbean. The Halifax-class frigate, with a crew of approximately 220 crew members, will work with th...
Parade this morning in Jacó 29 Jun 2013 | 08:19 am
There is a 9 a.m. parade in Jacó today to kick off the third Interinsitutional Festival Garabito sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and many of the town’s businesses. Most of the activities will be ...
Rock and Roll Sunday at 11 29 Jun 2013 | 08:19 am
The Banda de Conciertos de San José will present a rock and roll tribute Sunday at 11 a.m. in the garden of the Museo Nacional. Works of The Beatles, Chicago, Queen and Pink Floyd are on the progra...
South African President Zuma visits Mandela twice in hospital 29 Jun 2013 | 08:18 am
South African President Jacob Zuma Thursday visited anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela for the second time in under 24 hours, a sign of growing concern about the former president’s health. Mandela ha...
Conservation director seeks funds to buy land already in parks 29 Jun 2013 | 08:18 am
The head of the nation’s conservation system told lawmakers Thursday that the agency needs extensive funding to pay for private land incorporated into protected areas. The man is Rafael Gutierrez Roja...
You must have a computer if you are going to read this 29 Jun 2013 | 08:17 am
I was thinking about my column and what to write this week. I really did not want to deal with the global unrest and protests in the most unlikely places, (including Costa Rica), the “taper tantrum” ...
