A significant increase in the number of people with work and a stable unemployment rate are the main findings of the Continuous Employment Survey (ECE), carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC). During the first three months of 2017 there is an increase of 68 thousand employed people, compared to the […]
Archives for May 2017
Woman convicted for importing drugs from Costa Rica: “I wanted to be a good mother”
An Italian woman living in New York was sentenced to seven years in prison for being part of a drug trafficking network that imported cocaine from Costa Rica. Eleonora Gigliotti, co-owner of a pizzeria in the Queens neighborhood, was sentenced by the Federal Court of the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday. Her husband […]
Don’t let your guard down, zika is still here!
On Thursday, the Ministry of Health called on the population not to lower their guard in the face of the latent threat of the zika virus. The arrival of rains should alert people to eliminate potential breeding sites, in order to reduce the risk of spreading the mosquito that transmits dengue, zika and chikunguña. It […]
Alajuela opens first electric recharge center for vehicles
The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE), in partnership with private enterprise and local government, officially authorized the first electric recharge center in Alajuela on Tuesday. The initiative is part of the three-station pilot scheme promoted by the Institute in conjunction with South Korea within the Intelligent Energy Cooperation Program. This second refueling center is located […]
Maduro paid $ 11 million “off the books” to Brazilian advertisers
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro paid $11 million “off the books” to the couple of Brazilian advertisers Joao Santana and Monica Moura, now arrested, for the 2012 Hugo Chávez re-election campaign. Monica Moura, in prison with her husband and partner in the “Lava Jato” anti-corruption operation, told the prosecution that she received money in kind at […]
La Platina Bridge will be closed over the weekend
The areas surrounding bridge Alfredo González Flores, known as la Platina, will remain closed, from Saturday at 10 p.m. until Sunday at 5 p.m., despite the fact that on April 28th, Transport Minister Carlos Villalta said that the closure due to the long weekend of May 1st would be the last. So if you go […]