To encourage the purchase and use of electric vehicles and favor decarbonization plans, the government will remove electric vehicles from vehicular restriction and promote preferential parking spaces. The measures were announced on Wednesday by the first lady, Claudia Dobles, and Environment Minister Carlos Manuel Rodríguez. They also announced that electric vehicles will have, from this […]
President denies pressure from industries on projects linked to plastic
President Carlos Alvarado denied having received pressure from the country’s industrial sector to make the decision to withdraw two bills liked to the use of plastic from the Congress’ agenda of extraordinary sessions. After statements by the Christian Socialist Erwen Masís on these alleged pressures, Alvarado said the decision to remove the projects from the […]
Borders have new container identification and control system
The National Customs Service launched a new technology for the identification of containers in response to the strategy developed by the Ministry of Finance to improve the control mechanisms in containers. The project would be made up of two parts: installation and informing the institutions involved with the border control. It is expected that the […]
Consumer confidence improves, but pessimism persists
Consumer confidence in the performance of the economy has improved, compared to its lowest point in November. However, it is still at low levels, according to the School of Statistics of the University of Costa Rica. In November 2018, the confidence index stood at 28.2 points out of 100. Three months later it increased to […]
Drug Trafficking Commission will have more powers
National legislators approved a motion to the reforms of the Legislative Assembly Regulation (RAL) to give more powers to the Security and Drug Trafficking Commission. The proposal by liberationist Gustavo Viales, who is also president of that legislative forum, reads as follows: The Permanent Special Commission for Security and Drug Trafficking is created, which will […]
Congress will vote to reform legislative regulation
Legislators finished voting on 189 basic motions presented to the bill to reform the Regulations of the Legislative Assembly. On Wednesday, they will begin to analyze revision motions, that is, proposals to allow a change of criteria on the final vote on a specific motion. When that process ends, the final discussion of the bill […]