BREAKING: Magnitude 6.6 earthquake rocks Costa Rica
NICOYA, COSTA RICA – October 23rd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – An earthquake initially reported as 6.6 magnitude on the Richter scale by USGS has just rocked Costa Rica. Local media is…
BREAKING: Mass protests encircling Costa Rica’s Casa Presidencial
October 23rd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – Some 450 taxi and small bus drivers protesting recent legislation have amassed outside Costa Rica’s Casa Presidencial (presidential house). The protestors have shut down traffic…
Recalled sunscreen has users bursting into flames, still on shelves in C.R.
October 23rd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – Last week in the United States, Energizer Holdings, makers of “Banana Boat” brand sunscreen, issued a recall for 23 varieties of its spray-on sunscreens because users…
Santa Ana resident records officer asking for bribe on cell phone
October 23rd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – As a driver made an illegal turn on the road that connects San Antonio de Belen with Santa Ana, he was stopped by a transit…
Costa Rica to declare “war” on tobacco smuggling
October 23rd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – The Health Ministry is looking to fight the cigarette smuggling business in Costa Rica, both through existing legislation as well as a new law. …
Drug dealers giving away their products outside Costa Rica schools
October 23rd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – Authorities from the Anti-Drug Regional Program (PRAD, in Spanish), have found that drug dealers have been stationing themselves outside of elementary and high schools, giving…
Tropical storm “Sandy” will become hurricane
October 23rd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – Tropical Storm Sandy is currently in the Caribbean Sea, 525 kilometers southwest of Jamaica. The storm is currently producing winds of 75 kilometers per hour,…
UPDATED: Protesters, government forces clash in Panama, 9-year-old dead
COLON, PANAMA – October 22nd, 2012 (InsideCostaRica.com) – The government of Panama sent special troops to the Caribbean city of Colon, 50 kilometers north of the capital of the country,…
