The festive atmosphere and tempting dishes typical of the Christmas season can make many lose control. Given this situation, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) calls on the population in general, but above all on those with a chronic illness such as diabetes, to exercise a moderate consumption of tamales and respect the meal […]

Costa Rica is more sea than land: 93% of the entire territory is sea. The marine territory is almost 11 times larger than the terrestrial one. And a portion of that treasure was portrayed in one of the most spectacular audiovisual productions on the oceans worldwide. The arrival of turtles in the Ostional National Wildlife […]

The 2017 Current Survey, conducted by the Statistical School of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), revealed that 81.7% of Ticos self-medicate, mostly due to headaches. This is the sixth version of this study, which sought the opinion of 1,236 Costa Ricans aged 18 and over .The researchers addressed 10 issues, including self-medication. The results […]

While the neighbors report an intense smell and contamination in the water, the authorities deny that there is a fuel spill in Manzanillo de Limón. Since Friday, the Yicel ship owned by Atlantic Shipping Company Ltd. has run aground on Playa Grande in that South Caribbean community. After the deepest inspection on Thursday, Fernando Mora, […]

The Legislative Assembly approved on Thursday in the second reading the law to encourage the use of electric vehicles in the country by exempting that technology from taxes. The new regulations had 37 votes in favor. The only one who voted against was José Ramírez, from Frente Amplio. According to the text, the tax benefit […]

A bull raged this Wednesday afternoon when it went to a house in San Pablo de León Cortés, where it wounded two dogs, damaged two vehicles and caused several damages in the house. Steven Pérez, supervisor of the Fire Department, reported that they received an alert about a bull in a house and upon arrival, […]