There are children with pending surgeries in orthopedics, otorhinolaryngology, reconstructive procedures and urology. However, the National Children’s Hospital has not been able to find all of them. According to Olga Arguedas, director of the hospital, they have found telephone numbers and addresses that no longer belong to the 1,110 patients they are trying to contact. […]
Archives for March 16, 2017
3 inmates escaped from Pococí prison
On Wednesday night, three inmates escaped from the Pococí Institutional Care Center. According to the Press Office of the Ministry of Justice, the men are called Olman Espinoza Jiménez, Raudi Padilla Jiménez and Rodney Rubio Soto. Soto has a 7-year sentence for aggravated robbery and would serve his sentence until October 22nd, 2018, while Padilla […]
Authorities on alert over waves of Venezuelans
Hundreds of Venezuelan citizens who were in Panama have been entering Costa Rica through Paso Canoas with the intention of renewing the tourist visa to return to the neighboring country. However, Panamanian authorities made the decision to reject some of them. Faced with this, Costa Rican migration is on alert for a possible wave of […]
Manuel Otero: “Agricultural productivity has grown in Latin America”
In the last 20 years, productivity increases in the agricultural sector, or in the main production chains in Latin America, doubled the world growth rate. We must have done something well,” said Argentinian veterinarian Manuel Otero, the only candidate -so far- to the leadership of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), which has […]
Prisoners build dormitories with their own resources
With their own resources, 48 prisoners working in the TO Project, built their dormitories in the Center of Institutional Attention of Cartago. The modules have a capacity for 48 people and were raised and financed by the population that participated in the project called TO, which cooperates with the prisoners since 2009. We are committed […]
20 drug gangs have been dismantled in 2017
The investigations carried out by the Drug Control Police (PCD) officers resulted in 20 drug gangs being dismantled in Costa Rica. As reflected by statistics of the PCD, 15 of these gangs operated locally and eight of them were family-based. The other 5 gangs operated internationally. For the authorities of the PCD citizen’s denunciation is […]