The National Insurance Institute (INS) at noon Wednesday closed collection at their facilities of the year-end auto registration fee and mandatory vehicle circulation permits, known as marchamos, and reported that some 78.9 percent of motorists made the payment on time.
Police operations carried out by the Public Security Ministry during 2014 resulted in the seizure of seven tons of processed marijuana and the elimination of 872,923 marijuana plants, Minister Celso Gamboa reported on Tuesday.
Following a formal request from Casa Presidencial, the popular short-message social network Twitter confirmed on Tuesday that it had removed a fake account that had been posing as the official profile of President Luis Guillermo Solís.
While “TEFL” stands for “Teaching English as a Foreign Language,” it means different things to different people. For the U.S. Peace Corps, the four-year-old TEFL program is a massive collaboration with the Education Ministry, and this year, that program took great strides.
Christopher Bridges, better known as the hip-hop artist Ludacris, got engaged to long-time girlfriend Eudoxie Mbouguiengue during their flight down to Costa Rica this week.
You are planning to invest into a future real estate development in Costa Rica. You see all those free magazines with pages and pages of real estate developers advertising houses, condos, offices and warehouses for sale, and they all look beautiful. But for one reason or another you are not ready to purchase yet, though you are excited about the possibilities.
President Luis Guillermo Solís this week will travel to Brazil to participate in President Dilma Rousseff's second-term inauguration ceremony, scheduled for Jan. 1st.
Every year travel magazines and survey authorities across the world hurl accolades at Costa Rica’s beautiful beaches and seemingly happy people. This year was no different, but the predicted wave of praise was also accompanied with an unforeseen amount of criticism.
