Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - The Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) arrested the mother and stepfather of a toddler, who died in Los Chiles, Alajuela, yesterday, apparently from being beaten. The mother is only 16 years old and identified by her last name, Mendoza. The age of the father, whose surname is Icabalceta,...

QCOSTARICA - Celso Gamboa this afternoon announced his resignation as Minister of Security (Ministro de Seguridad Publica - MSP), to take over as deputy prosecutor at the Ministerio Publico (Prosecutor's Office). At a live press conference, President Luis Guillermo Solis confirmed the resignation, denying that he had asked for Gamboa...

QCOSTARICA - The new US$34 million dollar "granelero" (bulk) dock at the Caldera port, in Puntarenas (Pacific coast) was ready in November, and was to have been operational by mid december, but due to red tape the dock sits idle. The delay is that the president of the Costa Rican...