61,000 people over 40 years old and 142,000 people between 15 and 35 years old spent New Year’s Eve with a shoestring budget. The tragedy of unemployment hit them during 2016 and now they are part of a statistic understood only by those with an empty cupboard, hungry children and a row of bills to […]
Archives for January 2, 2017
Design Drugs: Increasingly Popular Among Costa Rican
Bath salts, legal highs, herbal highs, La Flaca, K2 and Spice are types of drugs designed to make people fly on a dangerous, possibly one-way journey. These new psychoactive substances are increasingly popular, but hardly controlled. Freddy Arias, associate professor of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Costa Rica and Chairman of the […]
10 vehicles were burned in Liberia’s Transit facility
On Monday morning, the Fire Department put out a raging fire in campus facilities of the Traffic Police in Liberia, where several vehicles were burned. The initial report indicates that at least 10 vehicles were burned, aswell as some accumulated junk in the place. The emergency was taken care of by four units of the […]
62% of the population believes the country cannot defeat narcos
According to the results of the “2016 News” survey by the Faculty of Statistics at the University of Costa Rica, 62% of Costa Ricans say the country has little or no ability to solve the drug problem. The study states that only 36.8% of the population think that national authorities have the ability to solve […]
Get ready for a year full of politics
Although some of the names of the presidential candidates for 2018 were revealed since 2016, politics will explode this year. 2017 will experience a first semester of infighting within each party, and a fully pre-election second semester, paving the way towards what will be the elections of February 4th, 2018. Today it seems far away, […]
Rules and objectives to have a better, healthy life in 2017
“In January I’ll start” is a phrase that often translates into weeks without activities and year closures with unfulfilled goals. If you want to have a better health this New Year, decide to take actions in the first few days. Get to know 7 rules and their corresponding objectives that Esquire magazine has for you. […]