Archives for July 11, 2016

INCOFER (Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles) is planning to build a “first-world station” in Heredia. Guillermo Santana, INCOFER’s executive chief, recently posted a video on his Facebook profile with the design of San Joaquín de las Flores’ new railway station. This is intended to be carried out with the collaboration of the Costa Rican Chamber of […]

Duke, the puppy whose snout was slashed with a machete, is recovering and has pleasantly surprised everyone. Despite the severe injuries inflicted on the puppy by a still unknown person, who caused the amputatation of its snout, Duke is eating and it is gaining more strength every day. On Friday and Saturday Duke underwent two […]

According to Hospital Nacional de Niños (HNN) statistics, 1 out of 5 children in Costa Rica is obese. As a public health problem, professionals from Orientation College, who are always related to children and teenagers in schools, have decided to take actions. As consequence, they highlight the importance for school and families to work together […]

In order to lower tax defaulting for garbage collection, Mora’s Municipality announced a huge fine for those who take out the trash and don’t pay their taxes. According to city authorities, the fine goes from 424,200 colones (a Judiciary basic salary) to 4.242 million colones (10 Judiciary basic salaries). Mayor Gilberto Monge said that this […]

In each classroom there is at least one overweight or obese child and a significant number of them have diabetes. This problem has increased in recent years. For example, in 1996 14.9% of children between 5 and 13 years old recorded an excess of fat. That number rose to 21.4% in 2008. The data comes […]

Veritas University will create a center that will serve to provide training and conduct research related to politics, economy, culture, art and environmental science in Guanacaste. The Center for Sustainable Design and Conservation will be located 6 kilometers from the center of Liberia, and will have, among other things, a bioclimatic space, an organic garden […]