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The Santa Cruz Prosecutor’s Office raids the Municipality of Carrillo for alleged false information in an internal competition

Jun 21, 2024

The Santa Cruz Deputy Prosecutor's Office conducted a raid on the Municipality of Carrillo...

Community, Special Stories, Santa Cruz

Sully Gómez Loáiciga: “I haven’t done anything that I’m ashamed of”

Jun 20, 2024

In a telephone interview with The Voice, Sully Gómez gave her version of how...

Community, Special Stories, Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz Municipality awards multi-million contracts to former candidate for councilor from the ruling party

Jun 20, 2024

The Santa Cruz Municipality has disbursed more than 400 million colones to produce cultural events...

Community, Special Stories, Santa Cruz

Contract from the Municipality of Santa Cruz was won for $14,100 but final collection rose to more than $477,000

Jun 20, 2024

Sully María Gómez Loáiciga, a former candidate for council member with the...

Community, Liberia

Groups in Liberia will ask for changes and revisions to the “gold coast” of the Municipality of Liberia’s regulatory plan

May 31, 2024

The municipal plan to create a “gold coast” allocated for tourism growth raises concerns in...

Community, Nature, Liberia

Iguanita Refuge is included in 6,000 hectares that the Municipality of Liberia will allocate to a luxury tourist conglomerate

May 17, 2024

In the municipal project, the 6,000 hectares are called the “gold coast” and represent...

Community

Mayor of Carrillo halts councilors’ agreement to hire an advisor for each party fraction

May 16, 2024

The head of the municipality presented the veto during the municipal council session on Friday...

Nosara, Nicoya, Nature

Municipality of Nicoya keeps building code on hold in Nosara despite winning court case against businessman

May 09, 2024

The municipality began to apply the code in February of 2020, but it became inactive...

The intention to build housing in the district went up by 27% between January and April of this year compared to the same months last year, according to CFIA data.

Community, Santa Cruz

Ostional is close to getting the bridge it has dreamed of for decades

May 07, 2024

The communities around the Ostional River could experience a different story than the one that...

Community, Liberia, Guanacaste Votes

Financial chaos and millions in unpaid accounts to collect: what Liberia’s new mayor is inheriting

Apr 29, 2024

The mayor of Liberia “Pipo” Castañeda is leaving the new authorities who take office...

Garza, Garza

Garza community is trying to raise about $41,000 to replace the school’s deteriorated roof

Apr 22, 2024

The school's Board of Education, together with the Dreamcatchers foundation, raised approximately ₡2,400...

The ocean breeze carries salt particles that rust metal structures at an accelerated rate.

Region, Nicoya, Santa Cruz, Liberia

Complete guide to survive without the La Amistad bridge (and also to understand MOPT)

Apr 01, 2024

In this guide, you can find the details to cross the Tempisque by boat, travel...

Community

MOPT evaluates a “boat bus” at the Tempisque River due to La Amistad bridge closure

Mar 06, 2024

MOPT intends for the trips to be directed toward students and people who need to...

Community, Santa Cruz

Mayor of Santa Cruz shakes off audit findings on road work quality

Feb 22, 2024

A municipal audit report questions the quality of the repairs done on these roads...

El informe fue presentado antes de las elecciones y, por eso, el alcalde Jorge Arturo Alfaro asegura que tuvo que ver con motivaciones políticas

Community, Guanacaste Votes

Prosecutor’s Office refutes what PUSC’s candidate for mayor of Tilarán said: There was an arrest warrant for Greven Miranda for domestic violence

Feb 08, 2024

The Cañas Prosecutor's Office confirmed that it did issue an arrest warrant for...

Community, Special Stories, Liberia

Businessmen implicated in bribery investigation monopolize contract bids in Liberia

Jan 29, 2024

The company Gocesa del Molino S.A. monopolized all of the contract bids for public...

Community, Special Stories, Liberia

Diamante: Bribery in municipalities

Jan 29, 2024

This article is a complement to the investigative report “Businessmen accused in bribery investigation monopolize...

Nicoya, Guanacaste Votes

Carlos Luis Medina, candidate for vice mayor of Nicoya for the Our Town party, was penalized due to a case of conflict of interest

Jan 26, 2024

In 2015, the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) sanctioned Carlos Luis Medina Fernández...

Nosara, Guanacaste Votes, Politics

Dive into the ideas of the two Nosara’s female candidates for municipal council

Jan 18, 2024

In the 2020 municipal elections, Nosara had a huge abstention rate – 63.5% – and it...

Nicoya, Culture, Art, Dancing

The Dance of the Yegüita: A dance that calms feuds around Central America

Dec 11, 2023

This dance isn’t just celebrated here; there are also versions of it in Nicaragua...

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