The “Infinite Possibility Paradise” campaign seeks to highlight Costa Rican natural resources and landscapes with the exhibition of different artistic forms such as photographs and sculptures. The objective is that tourists can appreciate our famous and permanent biodiversity represented through a series of artistic pieces that currently sit in boarding rooms and migration areas. But […]
Solís relentlessly asks for more taxes
President Luis Guillermo Solís started a struggle from the Presidential House so that the Legislative Assembly opens the discussion for the approval of new taxes for the country. Turning the sales tax on the Value Added Tax and reforming the Income Tax are projects that do not have legislator’s support. Even so, Solís uses every […]
PLN criticizes Government’s attitude towards strike in the Judiciary
On Monday, legislator Karla Prendas, head of the National Liberation Party (PLN), criticized the government’s actions in the face of a strike in the Judiciary, which has halted the delivery of 35 bodies in the Judicial Morgue. The lawmaker said that the attitude of the President of the Republic to ask for mercy and to […]
Prosecutor opens case against forensics who did not deliver bodies
By express order of the Attorney General, Jorge Chavarría, the Prosecutor’s Office of Heredia will open a criminal case against forensic doctors and other personnel of the Forensic Pathology section who did not resume service in the judicial morgue due to the general strike that began last week. The decision is linked to possible crimes […]
Forensic personnel are incapacitated due to “psychological pressure”
Some of the personnel working in the pathology section of the Judiciary were incapacitated, after needing to be treated and transferred to San Vicente de Paul Hospital in Heredia, as they had nervous breakdowns and problems in their vital signs when they were ordered to resume their work. According to Hernán Campos, Secretary General of […]
UCR creates a tool to treat diseases and improve crops
A group of workers from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and foreign experts are working on the development of a new technology that will allow them to treat diseases and improve some crops. The tool named CRISPR-Cas9, allows the treatment of genetic diseases like muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis, huntington, leukemia and various types of […]