Yearly Archives: 2015

(TODAY COLOMBIA) Colombia has retracted its bid to host Miss Universe amid public rejection of owner Donald Trump’s recent controversial comments on Latinos in his presidential candidacy speech last week. Capital Bogota said in March that it was interesting in hosting next year’s Miss Universe, a global beauty pageant owned...

(QCOSTARICA) Burning tires, throwing bottles and placing tree trunks and debris to block the road, a group of hostile protestors confronted riot police on Wednesday in Paquera de Puntarenas. Some 300 people completely blocked passage in the area of the La Gallada bridge, impeding transit to and from tourist beach...

(QCOSTARICA) The National Highway Council (Consejo Nacional de Vialidad - Conavi) spent ¢17 billion colones on maintaining 972 kilometres of national roads without achieving any real improvements, says the latest report by the National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models (Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales y Modelos Estructurales - LANAMME). According...