Archives for January 2017

The train will start working due to closures in La Platina. Its locomotive would be heard in the center of Alajuela from this week. We asked the company to increase the number of workers so that we could finish faster. We started the last stage which is the roof, and that’s the only thing that […]

Last year ended with a total of 120 train collisions. Everything seems to indicate that 2017 will be worse: 11 collision had been reported in less than two weeks. The so-called “final solution” to collisions emerged in 2012: putting needles at crosses. The project has undergone changes and delays through the years and although the […]

Route 32 is also dangerous for animals. In one year 1,293 animal died, victims of excessive speed, only the section from Río Frío to Sarapiquí. CONAVI took into account the study by researcher Adolfo Artavia for the design of the new route 32. The company CHEC will build tunnels for animals in the areas identified […]

In a few months, Costa Rica went from receiving 100 extra-continental migrants per day to receiving 50 or less. There could be different motives behind the considerable decrease (compared to the crisis experienced since the end of 2015). The Directorate General of Immigration and Nationality believes that they could have changed the routes, due to […]

A bill that aims to build a technologic park and a university center for technological training on El Calvo cemetery in San José raises controversy. The initiative, under file 20.037, was presented by the Municipality of San José and it aims to stop 1,600 square meters of the cemetery from being a public domain asset […]

The first edition of “El Coco Vive” festival will arrive at Amor de Temporada Park, Guanacaste, from January 18th to 22nd. It will feature cultural and sports activities which are intended to show the “true face” of the community, whose image was affected by criminal episodes, such as the death of Alejo Leiva last March, […]