More than 60 service and tourism companies participated in the first business event of the Vivir la Integración Dimensión Empleo (Living integration, Employment dimension) program, with the aim of giving jobs to refugees in the country. The statistics of the authorities indicate that almost 50% of refugees live in unemployment. Faced with this situation, UNHCR […]
Archives for February 26, 2018
Costa Rica and Cuba sign agreement on sustainable livestock
The Vice Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Ivannia Quesada Villalobos, and the Ambassador of Cuba in Costa Rica, Danilo Sánchez Vásquez, signed a cooperation agreement aiming at having both countries advance in the issue of sustainable livestock. This agreement implies the participation of the Ministries of Agriculture and Livestock of both nations and will facilitate […]
Breast milk donors are required urgently
The Banco de Leche Materna Carolina Vega Foundation urgently requires donors of breast milk who reside in La Sabana, Tibás, Heredia, Moravia, Guadalupe, Tres Ríos, Escazú, or Santa Ana. According to the institution’s officials, the only milk bank, located in San Ramón, is not receiving enough milk per week, so they call on mothers of […]
Trump and Peña Nieto argue again over the wall
The president of the United States and the president of Mexico again once broke diplomatic relations and the plans to meet, as had been agreed in the White House, because again there is a discussion between both heads of state for Trump’s insistence on publicly saying that he will make Mexico pay for a supposed […]
Intense downpour with hail surprised everyone yesterday
On Sunday, the residents of Guácima de Alajuela witnessed a surprising phenomenon for a summer afternoon. A video shows the strong intensity of the rain and a white layer is observed on the lawn, apparently ice. However, La Guácima is not the only area in which this phenomenon is recorded. According to other reports on […]
Costa Rica, the “new paradise for drug cartels”
Colombian Caracol Televisión has a show called “Testigo Directo” (Direct Witness), a space dedicated to research whose team visited the country and reached the conclusion that “Costa Rica is a paradise for Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.” The documentary shows the problems that the country faces due to the increase in local and international drug […]