The smell of burnt plastic in the cabin of an airplane bound for El Salvador forced the pilot to return to the Juan Santamaría airport on Wednesay morning. Enio Cubillo, director of Civil Aviation, explained that Lacsa’s 626 plane left minutes before 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, with 63 passengers on board. However, the pilot made […]
Archives for November 1, 2017
FTA between Costa Rica and Korea to be signed in Argentina in December
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Costa Rica and South Korea will be signed on December 9th in Buenos Aires, Argentina, prior to the start of the Eleventh Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, which will run from December 10th to 13th. This was confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Trade, Alexander Mora, who […]
President will remain incapacitated until November 10th
President Luis Guillermo Solís will remain incapacitated until November 10th. Although initially Solís had indicated that his surgery was minor and that he would be back in the office within two weeks, the doctors decided to extend this period. This was announced by the Minister of Communication, Mauricio Herrera. According to Herrera, the extension of […]
UNESCO: Costa Rica continues teaching as it did in the eighties
The methodologies and teaching techniques used in Costa Rica have not changed for a long time and this is reflected in a recent report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to the document, only 64 of 125 countries have managed to get at least 50% of their young people to […]
Prosecutor opened case against operators involved in Heredia’s train crash
The Deputy Prosecutor’s Office of Heredia opened an investigation on the circumstances of the frontal collision of two trains on Monday afternoon, in Santa Rosa de Santo Domingo, in Heredia. The case was opened against train operators named Arias Cordero, who was driving unit 2459 in the direction of Heredia-San José; and Castillo Ramírez, driver […]
Costa Rica ranks 61st in the 2018 Doing Business Index
Improvements in the process of property registration and in the protection of investors were the elements that helped Costa Rica get to the 61st place in the 2018 Doing Business index, a business climate measurement that assesses 190 countries At the Latin American level, Costa Rica is surpassed only by Mexico (49), Chile (55), Peru […]