The Rural Development Institute (INDER) will invest about 3,300 million colones in food and nutrition security, which would benefit about 5,000 people, especially the elderly or disabled. INDER’s Food Safety Department is responsible for providing farmers with inputs, seeds, seedlings, trees, tools, machinery and other materials for planting and harvesting activities such as basic grains, […]
10 UK companies will participate in the BTM fair
According to Pedro Beirute, PROCOMER’s general manager, ten UK companies from the food and agriculture sectors confirmed their participation in the international BTM fair held every September. The announcement came after the Mayor of the Corporation from London City, Jeffrey Mountevans, visited president Luis Guillermo Solís last Tuesday. Last year, 3,365 business meetings were held […]
Students perform better if teachers are evaluated
Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan are listed as the best countries in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). This test evaluates the performance of students in different subjects. In all these countries, among other control measures, the work done by teachers is evaluated. Analysts from the BBC said there is a significant relationship […]
Man arrested with 3,000 turtle eggs in Guanacaste
Public Force officers arrested a man in Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, carrying 3,200 turtle eggs in his truck. According to the Ministry of Public Security, officers in a checkpoint of a busy area, intercepted the man named Méndez, who was traveling on a Isuzu Rodeo, inside of which there were 16 bags of eggs without the […]
Heredia Hospital’s outpatient surgeries increase
From August there will be an increase in the evening and outpatient surgeries in the San Vicente de Paúl de Heredia hospital. According to Dr. Mario Ruiz, deputy director of the medical center, this will be achieved by enabling 8 of the 10 operating rooms the medical center has to work until 10:00 pm and […]
Public employees ask 5 times more sick days than private employees
According to the information provided by the Central Evaluation Commission Disability of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) to legislator Mario Redondo, public employees ask 5 times more sick days compared to those in the private sector. According to the report, during 2014, the State granted 1,637,360 sick days at a total cost of […]