Another cyclist was hit last Sunday in Paraíso de Cartago, according to a video posted on social networks. The images show a cyclist who travels from left to right (on the screen) and is later hit by a vehicle that travels from top to bottom. After the accident, some passersby and the driver of the […]
Archives for February 21, 2017
The National Electronics Award 2016 awarded the most outstanding projects
The most outstanding projects in the electronic engineering career at national level were awarded by the Costa Rican Association of Electronic Engineering, as part of the National Electronics Award 2016. The “Diwö” research and development project was the first-place winner. Its official name is “Design of a control and data acquisition system for the Stellarator […]
Closures from Pozuelo to Jardines
The road between the Cookie Factory Pozuelo and the Jardines del Recuerdo cementery is being expanded to four lanes and the pavement works started on Monday, so there will be night closures on said road. The works will be conducted between Virilla River and Jardines del Recuerdo every day from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. […]
CCSS improves its figures
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) dispatched up to 10 medicines and performed up to 24 tests per inpatient during 2016. With these data, the CCSS said that it increased the number of dispensed drugs, the number of laboratory tests and radiological examinations, compared to 2015. In 2016, 82.2 million drugs were delivered, 3.3% […]
Legislators requested the Comptroller General to investigate the overpayment
Legislator Sandra Piszk, from Partido de Liberación Nacional (PLN), asked the Comptroller General of the Republic to investigate the ¢ 30 million overpayment that vice-Minister of the Presidency Ana Gabriel Zúñiga received as a wage incentive without meeting the requirements. The legislator addressed a letter to Comptroller General of the Republic Marta Acosta, in which […]
Arguedas: “Solís is turning the blind eye”
Legislators from different political parties criticized the millionaire overpayment to three vice-ministers because they didn’t meet the requirements. Partido de Liberación Nacional parliamentary fraction urged the Comptroller General of the Republic and the Office of the Public Ethics Prosecutor to investigate the overpayments made to vice-ministers Carmen Muñoz, Ana Cristina Trejos and Ana Gabriel Zúñiga. […]