On October 25th, at 2:53 pm, the Costa Rican Red Cross was alerted and was asked to assist a rescue unit near the fourth stop of La Carpio, in La Uruca, where a 7-year-old boy apparently fell into the river. Collaborators were on site conducting an intensive search. The Fire Department also sent 3 units […]

The project was born from the meeting of a systems engineer, a developer and an industrial engineer who aimed to improve traffic problems in Costa Rica. As a result, they decided to implement the use of carpooling. The team is made up of two Frenchmen and a Colombian, who arrived from France a few months […]

Costa Ricans lose 10 years of life because of strokes. The so-called brain hemorrhages kill 3 people every day and they are responsible of 6% of deaths among Costa Ricans. Smoking, hypertension, and sedentary lifestyle are some of the risk factors that can lead to this situation. Miguel Barboza, a neurologist at Calderón Guardia Hospital, […]

The municipality of San José has invested 70 million colones so far to improve sewerage in order to make floods in Chinatown a past situation. Repair work stopped to exhibit art works from El Prado Museum, held on the boulevard. However, they will continue in late November. Next year we will build a fairly large […]

Can you imagine San José without giant billboards? A bill aims to regulate the size, color and placement of advertisements on public roads. This is Further Adjustment Installation on External Visual Communication project presented by legislator Luis Vásquez. The initiative was presented in 2014 and it already has 7 alternative texts. The bill aims to […]

The Catholic Church forbade people to keep the ashes of dead people in houses or places that are not considered sacred (such as the cemetery or church). It also banned to scatter ashes in the air, land or sea. If the ashes are scattered, a funeral will be denied. Pope Francis validated the document entitled […]