Failure to pay alimony would be punished with prison only at night, if the initiative by legislator Óscar López, from the Accessibility without Exclusion Party (PASE), is successful. The proposal would apply only to unemployed debtors and prison time would be between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. According to the legislator, that schedule would allow […]

Yamileth Astorga, president of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA), ensures that the levels of arsenic concentration in the water people from Guanacaste and San Carlos drink are safe for their health, since it is less than 10 micrograms per liter, the maximum allowed by the WHO. To this date, the institution has purchased 6 arsenic remover […]

In each classroom there is at least one overweight or obese child and a significant number of them have diabetes. This problem has increased in recent years. For example, in 1996 14.9% of children between 5 and 13 years old recorded an excess of fat. That number rose to 21.4% in 2008. The data comes […]

Veritas University will create a center that will serve to provide training and conduct research related to politics, economy, culture, art and environmental science in Guanacaste. The Center for Sustainable Design and Conservation will be located 6 kilometers from the center of Liberia, and will have, among other things, a bioclimatic space, an organic garden […]

The failed foray into the development of hydrogen – based energy has the Costa Rican Oil Refinery (RECOPE) on tenterhooks. Since March last year, a series of legal complications brought down the link between the refinery and Ad Astra Rocket for the use of hydrogen as an energy source for transportation. The contract by which […]