National authorities detected organized crime groups that use 7-year-old children to commit crimes. As consequence, resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Alice Shackelford recommended that the country should create control policies in order to prevent people who have lifted out of poverty from falling back into that condition. According to the analyst, […]
Costa Rica has a new tool to treat cancer
There is a new tool to diagnose cancer tratment in Costa Rica. It is the first of its kind in Central America. Thanks to the Chemosensitivity Tumor Laboratory, located at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Costa Rica (UCR), the country has a great advantage compared to the rest of the region. The […]
Immigration returns Cubans to Panama
During the last hours, authorities from the Border Police have found several Cuban citizens walking through paddocks and palm plantations. When questioned and requested for documentation, passports without any legal record of their entry into the national territory were presented, so officers proceeded to return them to Panama. In the first 13 days of August, […]
Another dog was savagely attacked
A new case of animal abuse took place last Friday. A dog was found lying in a vacant lot with his face completely disfigured. It It is thought that it was savagely attacked using a machete, which caused it a great injury that required surgery. The incident ocurred in Alto de las Palomas in Santa […]
A true love story
For skeptics who do not believe in true love or think that it only exists in the movies, here is the story of Rubio and Olivia. Rubio, was a stray dog living on the streets of Buenos Aires. On a particular date the dog used to go to the Hilton Hotel entrance and sit there […]
INCOPESCA and tuna fishers are in war
Representatives of the National Chamber of Tuna (CANAPATUM) declared that Executive Order 38681 signed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) and the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) should be repealed because the actions established within the Order have not been complied. They reported problems regarding the granting of fishing licenses and complained […]