Glaucoma is a silent condition with no symptoms that causes blindness without a warning. Luckily, it can be prevented. Diabetics, people with high blood pressure, and people with a family history have an increased risk of developing this disease, the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. Marisela Salas, director of the Ophthalmology Clinic of the […]

A family from Alajuelita sector lost everything when a fire consumed their home on Sunday. According to the Fire Department report, the 200-square-meter house was completely destroyed by the fire that started after 1 a.m. Fortunately, there were no victims. Two other structures were partially affected. An 80-square-meter house only lost 8 meters, while a […]

Two street vendors offered chilies, avocados and marijuana at retail price in downtown San José. The Public Force managed to capture the foreign peddlers, named Beltre and González, who had 22 doses of marijuana in the carton were they kept the chilies. Beltre, a Dominican national, has a residence permit; while González, a Nicaraguan man, […]

The idea of building a municipal cable car faces unbridgeable barriers such as the National Parks Act, the Organic Law of the Environment, international conventions and the social opposition. This is a project with private investment that would go from San Gerardo de Rivas to the top of Chirripó hill. However, since it was presented […]

If a bill proposed by legislator Patricia Mora takes hold, parents will be able to choose the order of their children’s surnames. The initiative, called the Law on Equality in the Enrollment of Surnames, would allow Costa Rican couples to decide the last name their children will take first. If there is no agreement between […]