Vacation season is coming but education union called upon demonstrations. Asociación de Profesores de Segunda Enseñanza (APSE) general secretary, Hugo Marín, said that demonstrations are going to be regular and they will protest even during vacation. We are organizing demonstrations before and during vacation season. We need to be active, especially during legislators’ session week […]
Moratorium request on pineapple plantations for polluting water in the North
Edgardo Araya, member of Frente Amplio, asked President Luis Guillermo Solís to declare a moratorium on pineapple plantations expansion in the North because water is polluted with agrochemical substances. Araya declared that Agroindustrial La Lydia company, located in San Carlos, admitted there are three chemical polluting substances: two of them are in Pital and San […]
Vehicular restriction on vacation for two weeks
The vehicular restriction applied from Monday to Friday in the central town of San José will also go on vacation from July 4th to July 15th, just like students do. The decision is based on previous year records, in which there is a significant reduction in the number of vehicles entering the capital city since […]
Budget for roads approved
On June 29th, the Committee on Financial Affairs of the Legislative Assembly approved a second special budget, which includes 20,257 million colones for municipalities’ road network maintenance. The budget must be exclusively used for road improvement and restoration and if there is any money left, it has to be used for road works. President of […]
Ministry of Health asks vacationers to double prevention measures against mosquitos
If you are planning to spend school vacation in the Pacific, be careful: zika, dengue fever and chikungunya are attacking that part of Costa Rica. The Ministry of Health is asking parents to take measures, specially if they are going on a family vacation to Jacó and Parrita, were cases have increased the most. Rodrigo […]
Illegal immigration in Nicaraguan border
A Nicaraguan citizen named Arce Martínez presumably used his house, bordering Nicaraguan territory, to illegally help immigrants cross the border in exchange for great quantities of money. Martínez has a residency ID card and he was captured by Migration Police. The property is near Peñas Blancas and beyond you can find the border with Nicaragua. […]