A year ago, President Luis Guillermo Solís visited Honduras. Now, it’s Honduran President’s turn to visit Costa Rica. According to Solís, Juan Orlando Hernández “will only visit Costa Rica. We had arranged a state visit, equivalent to mine in Honduras.” Although a longer stay was planned, it won’t be possible. The First Lady was also expected […]
Archives for June 2016
Surprise visits to avoid multiple pregnancies
The Ministry of Health will make surprise periodical inspections to the only private center authorized by the entity to perform in vitro fertilization procedures (IVF) in the country, Centro Fecundar Costa Rica. According to Dr. César Gamboa, director of Garantía de Acceso a los Servicios de Salud, the center will be asked the patient registry […]
Liberia’s water outage
The Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers announced that Liberia will not have drinking water on June, 20th 2016. The suspension is due to maintenance work to be performed on a 350 MM main water pipeline, located in Barrio Moracia, which supplies water to the entire canton. The most affected districts will be Pueblo Nuevo, Moracia, […]
Wanted! US fugitive escaped from migration
The man in the photograph is required by Costa Rican authorities after escaping the detention center of the Immigration Directorate, in Hatillo, on Sunday night. John Wesley Saatio is an American citizen wanted in his country for being a sex offender with a 25-year sentence. He was arrested in Jacó on June 3rd. As confirmed […]
PAC asks for casinos’ regulation to fight money laundering
Marcela Guerrero, legislator from the party Acción Ciudadana (PAC), demanded the swift approval of bills aiming to fight money laundering, including casinos’ regulation. The request was made following the investigation of the alleged tax evasion case linked to Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which is connected to Costa Rican businessmen and politicians. According to Guerrero, […]
Shelter seeks help to care for and return animals to the wild
Refugio Herpetológico was founded in Santa Ana 13 years ago by a very young biologist, Rodolfo Vargas, who took up a difficult and expensive challenge: to rescue and rehabilitate wild animals and then release them in their natural habitat. Today, an average of 700 animals (monkeys, birds, snakes, turtles, lizards, leopards…) from all over the […]