President Carlos Alvarado participates in the New York forum of “Securing our future: people, food and nature to solve the planetary emergency,” within the framework of actions taken by Costa Rica to fight climate change, among which stand out a new coalition for 2030 with which the protection of 30% of the planet is visualized. […]
Christiana Figueres on climate change: “It will be like a World War”
Costa Rican Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, revealed to international media that she will soon publish a book in which she expresses what the world would be like in 2050, in whose content she points out, that the impacts of not combating climate change would be as […]
Strong images of World Cleanup Day
Tens of thousands of people equipped with bags, nets and containers of all kinds participated this Saturday in a global day of cleaning, on beaches, rivers, lakes and streets, collecting garbage and asking at the same time for a change of mentality. A day after millions of people demonstrated against climate change, volunteers struggled, under […]
Alunasa denies having used Costa Rica as a narco bridge for Chavismo
The Alunasa company denied having any links with the food programs that would have served as a bulkhead to transfer money from drug trafficking to Chavismo, through Costa Rica. Through a statement sent on Wednesday, the company denied the information published over the weekend by the Spanish newspaper ABC in which it quotes an investigation […]
Business confidence falls to its lowest level of the decade
The confidence of the business sector fell to its lowest level in the last decade, according to the results of the most recent Quarterly Business Survey prepared by the Union of Chambers (Uccaep). The index accumulates 10 quarters of gradual deceleration. In the last measurement it reached a level of 5.3, while a year ago […]
Nearly all Costa Rican hospitals have structural problems
A study on hospital infrastructure in the country revealed that it is necessary to make improvements in electrical installations, reinforcement plans, architectural redesigns and earthquake risk reduction. The data was released by the Costa Rican Association of Hospital Architecture and Engineering (ACOAIH), which indicates that the 29 public hospitals suffer from serious infrastructure problems. Vania […]