The canton of Desamparados joined the initiative of smart parking meters, which allow to make electronic payments through a mobile application. The app, called Parso, facilitates the payment of municipal parking spaces from a smartphone. The system allows users to make payments through “reloads” made in authorized centers that are affiliated with the aló network: […]
Archives for February 23, 2017
Anonymous complaints got drug gang arrested
Officials of the Drug Control Police (PCD) managed to arrest four people from an alleged drug gang following a raid in Los Guido Desamparados, after 22 anonymous complaints were filed by people who called 1176. None of the suspects had a criminal record. They were identified as Mora, Montes, Lacayo and Quesada. The authorities were […]
Costa Rican Ambassador to India is a yogi
The new ambassador of Costa Rica to India, Mariela Cruz, has a diplomatic agenda based on three pillars. In an interview with the university radio show Desayuno, Cruz explained that her agenda is based in yoga, gender and art. Before her appointment, Cruz headed Namasté Yoga Studio and Physical Therapy Clinic, a she project left […]
Hospitals are swamped
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) showed that in some hospitals overcrowding is not just a problem of the emergency services. According to the hospital occupancy rate, hospitals Calderón Guardia, San Rafael de Alajuela, San Carlos and Enrique Baltodano, exceeded 95% of occupancy during 2016. At a national level, hospitals reached 83.3% of occupancy […]
Project to modernize borders received approval from MPs
The Committee on International Relations and Foreign Trade of the Legislative Assembly ruled in favor of a loan between Costa Rica and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to finance the Border Integration Program to improve infrastructure and strengthening controls. The institutions that will benefit from this investment are the National Customs Service, the General Directorate […]
Sporadic gas and ash emissions from Turrialba Volcano
Turrialba Volcano remains relatively calm, with very sporadic emissions of ash, gas and steam. Eliécer Duarte, from the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI), said that the volcanic tremor has remained the same. We have seen very high vapor columns above the summit, because the wind has been calm and we have not […]