The electronic fare is considered essential to update the public transport services, because transfers can be done and even different transports such as buses and trains can join the initiative. For this reason the Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles (INCOFER) is studying the possibility of implementing an electronic payment system. Maybe our trains and stations are not suited […]

On October 12th, Border Police officers arrested a smuggler and several undocumented people. The first case took place in Los Chiles in Alajuela, where police officers realized that several people were passing through a non-enabled place. When the officers intercepted them, in a sector known as cevichito, they found out that they were Nicaraguan citizens. […]

The main challenge presented by president Luís Guillermo Solís to approve new taxes before the pre-election year will not be reached this year. However, Solís is keeping his position in his speeches and statements: he is pushing for taxes. We just have November and December, so it is going to be difficult to achieve all […]

According to a survey conducted by Eset Latin America security firm, 30% of social network users clicked misleading publications, 35% experienced an incident of malware or spam and 15% were victims of phishing (personal information theft). This means that 1 out of 3 users were infected with some kind of malicious code through social engineering […]

The five international winners from the Shnit Festival will be announced in New York on October 16th. However, two national short films were declared winners of the sixth edition that ended on October 9th. Nathalie Álvarez Mesén won as Costa Rica best short film for “Asunder”. The short is about the desire of Nia, along with […]