Archives for July 6, 2017

Latin America is lagging in comparison to other areas of the world due to the lack of quality education and technological innovation, warned on Thursday a head of CAF, the Latin American Development Bank. All our research has led us to detect that Latin America is losing the train of history,” said CAF representative in […]

The board of directors of the Central Bank of Costa Rica has agreed to suspend the new modality of negotiation of the US dollar in the national currency market known as “Monex-Auction”. Initially, the service would begin its operation on Wednesday, July 12th, from 9:10 a.m. to 10 a.m. The purpose was to improve the […]

Gerardo Vargas Varela, legislator from Frente Amplio, presented a bill that seeks to include environmental education as a compulsory subject at all levels of public and private education. The purpose is to start a process of comprehensive education to generate awareness in students from early ages. According to the legislator, the idea is that people […]

The controversy over the $20,000,000 loan given by the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR) to the Chinese cement importer Juan Carlos Bolaños will not count on government intervention for the time being, as President Luis Guillermo Solís said on Thursday. According to Luis Guillermo Solís, if the government intervenes on the board of the BCR, […]

Hatillo’s Public Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation on a man named Gregory Moss, who is suspected of the crime of animal abuse, set forth in the new Animal Welfare Act. The complaint was lodged on Thursday afternoon by a rescuer. The events to be investigated occurred in early June in Hatillo 8, when it is […]

A video camera caught images of a whirlwind of Thursday afternoon in La Guácima de Alajuela. Adrián Gutiérrez Quirós recorded the right moment when the natural phenomenon occurred, just when an electric power transformer exploded! Heavy rains and wind hit Alajuela and Heredia this Thursday. crhoy.com