The residents of downtown Alajuela will not have drinking water this Wednesday between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm, according to the municipality of that province. The suspension is due to improvement works in the La Chayotera potable water conduction network. The affected communities will be: • Alajuela Centro de Calle 7 to the west “Casco […]
Dollar price rose ¢ 3 in one day and ¢ 10 in one week
The exchange rate rose ¢3 in a single day, because this Tuesday the session ended at ¢578.3 and on Monday at ¢575.4 in the wholesale market of Monex. The currency has risen ¢10 since last Tuesday in that market, as a result of seasonal factors. On the other hand, in financial institutions there has also […]
Legislators endorse not paying wages to unionists who go on strike
By majority, the Legislature endorsed on Tuesday afternoon a proposal that claims that trade unionists cannot collect wages from the first day they are on strike and their payment should only proceed if a judicial authority demonstrates that the movement was due to serious breaches by the employer. More than 29 legislators voted in favor […]
Congress refuses to include education in essential services list
By majority, the Legislative Assembly rejected a proposal by Pedro Muñoz, from the Christian Social Unity Party (PUSC), to include education in the list of essential services that are banned from holding strikes. Legislators agreed to maintain the current proposal that consists in limiting the duration of strikes in the education sector to a term […]
Taxi drivers cornered minister and threatened with protest in front of US ambassador’s house
The situation in the Presidential House also got heated. At about 11:20 a.m. on Tuesday, the Minister of the Presidency, Víctor Morales Mora, went out to talk with the taxi drivers who were demonstrating outside the building and was practically cornered by complaints. He did so heavily guarded by Public Force officers and with part […]
Costa Rica launches new tourism campaign for the US and Canada
The Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT) launched its new ‘Only the Essentials’ campaign on Monday in the country’s two main tourist markets: the United States of America and Canada. The campaign will be activated in the American cities of New York, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Tampa-Orlando, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle, Austin, Detroit, Los […]