By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Radiográfica Costarricense S.A., the Internet provider, says it is ready to take signups for its high-speed WiMax wireless service.
The service is available in an eight kilometer radius of Cerro Abra, including Escazú and Santa Ana. The wireless station on the mountaintop catches the signal and carries it to the company’s […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Arias administration officially wants to put off the effective date of the new immigration law until Dec. 1, 2007.
That is the change the administration is going to ask the Asamblea Legislativa to make before the new law goes into effect in early August.
President Óscar Arias Sánchez and Federico Berrocal […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
San Antonio de Desamparados and Río Azul will have their electric power cut today while the Compañía Nacional de Fuerza y Luz S.A. conducts repairs from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday the power outage will be in Pozos de Santa Ana and the center of San Antonio de Belén, according […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Lawmakers from the Provincia de Limón are pushing proposed legislation that would create a hospital for the Cantón de Siquirres and the population of Matina.
The idea has been talked about for 15 years. However, Jorge Méndez Zamora, a deputy from the Partido Liberación Nacional, supports the measure but says the […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Taxi drivers protesting the legal status of drivers without permits caused congestion on the Intramerican highway Monday, and the protests are expected to continue all this week.
The taxi drivers, who are in a squeeze between higher fuel prices and fewer customers, want a law changed that permits the so-called porteadores. […]
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The nation’s emergency commission has approved 950 million colons, some $1.9 million, for repair work in San Carlos and in Guanacaste.
Some 120 million colons ($233,000) go to build a bridge over the La Florida ditch in Ciudad Quesada. The emergency commission’s board of directors also authorized spending 14 million colons […]
