Many individuals and organizations collected food and other baby care products for a young mother from Limón who was recently raped by a convict on a parole. The attack happened one-week after the woman, had given birth to her third child. The mother can no longer breastfeed her child because she’s on medication to prevent […]
Archives for June 2016
Unions’ wage adjustment proposals for inflation
Unions participating in the National Wages Council have 3 proposals aiming to face inflation with an increase of minimum wages, which will be in force from July, 1st. The first proposal came from the union confederations, composed of the Confederación de Trabajadores Rérum Novarum, Central Movimiento de Trabajadores Costarricenses, Central Social Juanito Mora, and Confederación […]
Youngster survived by playing dead
A 15-year-old boy pretended to be dead to avoid being strangled in an assault in which his 12-year-old cousin wasn’t so lucky. The attack occurred on Sunday at Banderas de Pocosol in San Carlos. The assailants are allegedly two Nicaraguan brothers named Solís. The deceased victim was dragged by the neck with a motorcycle and […]
App to report power failures
The residents of Mora, Acosta, Aserrí, Desamparados, Cartago, El Guarco, Dota, Tarrazú and León Cortés, will now be able to report power, Internet and television failures through a mobile app. Coopesantos RL made the app available for iOS and Android operating systems and more than 150 thousand people. This app aims to swiftly solve breakdowns […]
Social Security demands 53,740 million colones in courts
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) demands 53,740 million colones of worker-contractor fees from delinquent companies. This money is requested through 4,436 claims filed between January and April this year. Currently, 13,809 active companies owe 56,251 million colones. However, the biggest debt comes from 55,161 inactive firms that owe 131.243 million colones. According to […]
Hydro plant output makes a thermal plant unnecesary
The commissioning of the hydropower plant Reventazón, located at Siquirres de Limón, has provided for the shut down of two thermoelectric plants in the last three years. The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) decided to suspend operations of Moin I thermal plant, which contributed to 1 percent of the total production of energy. The 36 workers who worked […]