Archives for May 2, 2018

The last report of the work of President Luis Guillermo Solís is brief on the irregularities in the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR) that lead to the $30 million credit lines to Juan Carlos Bolaños to import cement from China. He also failed to mention the involvement of officials from his administration in the Cementazo […]

According to Enio Cubillo, director of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation, the companies Nature Air and Air Costa Rica got their operation certificates indefinitely suspended. In the case of Nature Air, the company has not resumed flights despite being authorized to do so since last February, so its operation certificate was suspended on April […]

For nearly three years, Costa Rica has been committed to develop a technical standard for the regularization of therapeutic abortion, an action that has been regulated for 50 years in the Criminal Code but does not currently have a regulation that rigorously dictates the steps to follow when it’s strictly necessary. The draft of the […]

Hugo Rodríguez, mayor of Palmares, banned religious events in the central park of the canton. However, two days later he had to backtrack and suspend the order. The Municipality has amde the decision not to authorize religious events of any kind in the Simón Ruiz Park facilities,” stated Rodríguez in a document sent to Palmares’ […]

The lawmakers in the Legislative Assembly began their administration by predicting good things, if one takes into account the negotiations for the creation of a multiparty directory, where there were no major drawbacks. With the beginning of the work, one of the priorities for this first year will be the reforms to the legislative regulation […]

In the last six years, the levels of air pollution remained high and more or less stable, with lower concentrations in some regions of Europe and the Americas,” said the WHO in a statement. Nine out of ten people breathe air that contains high levels of pollutants,” says the UN agency, a figure that has […]