Archives for February 9, 2017

It’s never a good time to let our guards down, because the mosquitoes that spread diseases such as zika, dengue and chikungunya never rest. So far this year, the Ministry of Health reported 243,682 breeding grounds found in different parts of the country. Of these, 77,209 were eliminated and another 166,173 were treated by the […]

An initiative by legislator Ottón Solís, from the Citizen Action Party (PAC), to unify the four financial superintendences is making progress in the legislative assembly. The project was published on Tuesday in the Official Gazette, a necessary step to continue its path to meet the requirements. The legislator introduced the proposal, called MERGE, on January […]

Entrepreneurs and rural students will have the opportunity to learn about management and finance for free. Pérez Zeledón, Quepos, and Coto Brus, are the places where the International University of San Isidro Labrador (UISIL) will hold lectures with essential issues for the development of small businesses. The activity, called “noches empresariales” (Business Nights), seeks to […]

The construction of public works is a slow process. An administration hardly has time to plan, seek financing, build and inaugurate a project, because the process takes more than 4 years. That is why each Government executes the projects that were left ahead by the previous administrations and plans what will come in the future. […]

Legislator Francisco Camacho, from Frente Amplio, asked President Luis Guillermo Solís, to intervene the National Institute for Cooperative Development (INFOCOOP) and take corrective measures due to its current situation. The request was made in a letter he sent to the President signed by other legislators. According to Camacho, the request is due to a number […]

According to figures from the Costa Rican Institute Of Tourism, Costa Rica set another record in the number of international arrivals: they were 2,925,128 by all ports during 2016. There was a 10% increase compared to the same period in 2015. More than 70% of international arrivals were registered by air, which represents the main […]