If you have a delicious and healthy cooking recipe, this is your chance to share it with all Costa Ricans, as if you were a professional chef! As part of the campaign announced by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), in order to promote healthy lifestyles and thus address the growth of chronic diseases, […]
Archives for April 20, 2017
Oil drops back to $50
Oil opened with a slight fall in New York, with difficulties to recover from the sharp decline of the previous day and the distrust on the prospects of reabsorption of the world supply. The price of a light sweet crude (WTI), the US benchmark, was down six cents to $50.38 for the May delivery contract […]
Request to apply indigenous education subsystem
The first meeting of the Indigenous Advisory Council of the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) was held on Wednesday. This is the first time in 24 years and the aim is to open the dialogue table to determine what the issues to be addressed in the indigenous population are and their needs within the education […]
Airlines in dispute for flights between Costa Rica and EE. UU.
The US airline Southwest notified the United States Department of Transportation of its objection to Volaris Costa Rica flying to the United States with the privileges granted to Costa Rican stock companies. This procedure responds to the interest by Volaris – a Costa Rican company with Mexican capital- of flying to Houston, Los Angeles and […]
Costa Rican ambassador is fired in El Salvador
The Costa Rican Ambassador to El Salvador, Carlos Manuel Echeverría, was removed from his position. On April 25th, he will leave office in that country. The decision of the dismissal was ratified by the Governing Council, in the session held on Tuesday. Both the appointment and the removal of the Ambassadors are […] in the […]
President Solís responds to Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister
President Luis Guillermo Solís was firm in his response to the Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Delcy Rodríguez, who said the document signed by Costa Rica and 10 other Latin American countries was a “rude interference”. The document blamed the Venezuelan government for the death of civilians and also asked to define the dates for the […]