Archives for July 2017

Protecting your ears should be as important as caring for your heart, your eyesight or your stomach. Therefore, you must avoid self-medication and consult about the side effects, since at least 130 long-term drugs increase the risk of developing irreversible hearing problems. This phenomenon, known ototoxicity, can be potentiated with drugs for high blood pressure, […]

If you are a neighbor of the Old Town and still have no plans for this last week of the mid-year vacation, pay attention because the municipality prepares a series of activities designed for the whole family. From July 9th to July 16th, the Vive Cartago program, which is being developed jointly with the Ministry […]

In a new court issued by the Citizen Action Party (PAC) at 11:15 p.m. on Sunday, Carlos Alvarado maintained his lead over Welmer Ramos at the convention. With 301 tables scrutinized at that time, which amounted to 80 percent of the vote, Alvarado had 35,519 votes. This accounted for 56.5% of the votes and Ramos […]

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 […]