The lack of a specific law is an obstacle so that this country’s anti-drug authorities can counteract the use of clandestine tracks through which aircraft with large quantities of drugs are mobilized. Public Security Minister Michael Soto confirmed that in Costa Rica there are more than 105 landing spaces of an illegal nature, many of […]
Archives for August 12, 2019
Project to give new life to La Sabana is 97% complete
Around 100 volunteers from different organizations and companies gathered on Saturday morning in order to plant 84 trees of 12 different native species in La Sabana Metropolitan Park. This was the first planting day in 2019, the last year of intervention of the rearrangement project baptized as “Una Nueva Sabana”. The initiative aims to reach […]
Plastic tax would have low economic impact
A study by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Research Institute in Economic Sciences (IICE) of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), announced that putting a tax on plastic would have Low economic impact. Since the effects of the tax depend on the ability of people to react, the research focuses on possible […]
Guatemalan elections were held this Sunday
The voting centers opened this Sunday in Guatemala to elect the future president in a ballot between the social democrat Sandra Torres and the conservative Alejandro Giammattei, whose winner will have the challenge of facing poverty, corruption and criminal violence. I ask all citizens to vote, it is the opportunity we have to be able […]
Chamber of Commerce pleased with project to regulate strikes
The Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce supports the measure of banning strikes in essential public services, which puts the general welfare of the community first, when some social groups exercise that right. The commerce sector and the Costa Rican people suffered the consequences of the regulatory insufficiency in this matter last year, when the strike […]
Tica wins international award with project to prevent papilloma
Costa Rican Fernanda Sánchez received an international award at the world forum of young leaders, called The Youth Assembly, which was held in Washington DC, United States. She achieved recognition in the Impact Challenge category with the project, “Papilloma Care”. This initiative aims to help thousands of Costa Rican youth to prevent Human Papillomavirus. In […]