Archives for February 6, 2019

A group of legislators pledged to work on the proposal by the Citizen Proposal Management to make a constitutional amendment to Article 52 so that marriage is only between a man and a woman. With the reform it would read as follows: Marriage is the union of a man and a woman, it rests on […]

Four years after the idea was put away, the National Production Council (CNP) and the Costa Rican Petroleum Refinery (RECOPE) revived the plan of partnering for the production and use of ethanol in fuel mixtures. In a letter addressed to the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic last month, the Refiner consulted on […]

In the midst of the fiscal crisis, domestic debt and high interest rates offered by domestic investors, the government asks legislators to approve the placement of bonds for $6 billion abroad. This is known as Eurobonds. According to the government, its objective is to obtain better loan conditions than those offered in the country to […]

Preventing cancer can save lives! This is the message of the Association Fight Against Childhood Cancer (ALCCI), within the framework of the Golden Month, whose objective is to detect the disease in minors as soon as possible. It is estimated that every year, 170 minors are diagnosed with some type of cancer, the most frequent […]

A fumigation plane crashed on Wednesday morning in Old Port of Sarapiquí. The alert about this accident came in at 7:38 a.m. According to the Red Cross Communications Center, the pilot of the aircraft was reported as stable. Firefighting units went to the site to rule out fuel and chemical spills. At the moment the […]

A third woman denounced former president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner Óscar Arias Sánchez of sexual harassment. This complaint joins the one raised on Monday by a psychiatrist named Arce and a second complaint by journalist “Nono Antillón”. The also journalist Emma Daly, who worked for the Tico Times and Reuters news […]