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Dollar Drops ¢14 In One Day to ¢523
The price of the dollar fell ¢14 colones yesterday, dropping to a low that not been seen in over a year, hitting a low of ¢521 for buy and ¢531 for the sell, at some banks. [Foto: exchange rate posted at the Scotiabank at 3:50pm Monday. The  bank posted the rate at ¢520 and ¢532 on its website this morning.]
Government Urged To Veto Reforms To The New Ley de Tránsito
The viceministra de Transportes, Rosaura Montero and the Director de Tránsito, German Marín, are on the same page when it comes to the reforms to the new Ley de Tránsito, the government of Oscar Arias should use its power of the veto to send the reforms back to the drawing board.



Rainy Season Around The Corner, Appearing Early This Year
Best is to start getting ready your umbrella as the rainy season approaches. The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN) - national weather service - is predicting that the start of the season will be one week ahead of normal.






Taxi Union Threatens Protest If Porteo Not Eliminated
The taxi union is threatening triplicating the actions of the porteadores (informal taxis) if the legislators does not vote in favour of eliminating the porteo from the commercial code.



Drunk Driver To Spend Three Months In Preventive Detention (Jail) For Killing Cyclist In Sunday's Traffic Accident
The drunk driver you hit and killed a cyclist on the Florencio Castillo, autopista to Cartago, will be spending the next three months in preventing detention, jail.



Dole Inaugurates a Mobile Medical Unit to Attend Rural Communities in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica
Dole Food Company  announced today that it inaugurated this week a mobile medical unit, which now offers some rural communities of the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica access to preventive medicine and specialized health attention.



Transworld Traveller Details His 12 Day Stay In Costa Rica
In the summer of 2009, Nicolas Rapp, decided to take a break from his Art Director job at The Associated Press to attempt a one-year overland travel around the world in a Toyota Landcruiser.



Top 3 finish for Bilko at Costa Rica X-Knights
Blake ‘Bilko’ Williams placed third at the weekend’s X-Knights event in San José, Costa Rica in the first competitive outing since his 2009 X Games triumph.



Keep An Eye On Costa Rica From Space
The Planetario de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) is now offering a view of Costa Rica from space, updated every 30 minutes.


 

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CUBA: Human Rights at the Eye of the Storm
Cuba's government-controlled stepped up its media offensive Monday in response to what the government calls a well-orchestrated international campaign of misinformation carried out in the last few weeks against this socialist island nation.


 

 
 

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  Where Have All The Kit Kat's Gone?
A Kit Kat is a confection which was first created by Rowntree's of York, England and now produced worldwide by Nestlé. But for some time I have not been able to find it in Costa Rica.
 
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Steve Jobs, founder of Apple this week introduced the iPad, a handheld tablet that is a larger version of the iPhone without the telephony feature.
 
 

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