Sarchí was certified as an international destination for sustainable development by the German Cooperation Foundation, the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), and Travel TourCert. The first district of the canton of Valverde Vega and Sarapiquí are the only ones with this award throughout Central America and the Caribbean. The community is known for its furniture […]
Archives for September 2018
Campbell brought up Nicaragua and Venezuela’s crises in the UN
Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Epsy Campbell brought up the discussion of the crises experienced in Nicaragua and Venezuela during the 73rd Assembly of the United Nations (UN). In the case of Nicaragua, the foreign minister said that the situation is not sustainable and criticized the government of Daniel Ortega for expelling the […]
Unions consider plan “B” and slow traffic on Route 32 for Saturday
Nearly three weeks of strike have not yielded the expected results for the unions, but rather the opposite. The President of the Congress, Carolina Hidalgo, announce the admissibility report of motions of reiteration for the tax reform. Therefore, the unions seek to intensify the fight through a “plan B”. Wálter Quesada, representative of the National […]
Minister contradicts Solís: there were data to avoid fiscal gap
Minister of Finance Rocío Aguilar confirmed before the Commission of Control of Income and Public Expenditure that the previous government had enough data to have presented an extraordinary budget and thus avoid the fiscal gap this year. This contradicts last week’s statements by former president Luis Guillermo Solís, who told the same commission there were […]
Carolina Hidalgo backs down and will discuss doctors’ salaries with tax plan
Legislator Pedro Muñoz complained that his motion of reiteration on the salary for doctors got rejected. The pressure made the President of the Congress, Carolina Hidalgo, back down and admit the discussion in Plenary, as part of the bill of tax reform. During the reading of the report that began after 4 p.m. on Thursday, […]
Government and unions resume negotiations amid criticism and tense social climate
The government and the unions resumed the negotiations to reach an agreement that would lead to the establishment of a dialogue table to thoroughly discuss the fiscal crisis. However, these negotiations occur in the midst of social tensions. The government condemned that on Thursday morning officials and union members took the operations room in San […]