Frente Amplio stated that Christian Vargas, CEO of the Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles (INCOFER), should appear before the Income Control and Public Spending Congress’ Commission due to the train service suspension. Legislator Edgardo Araya, Frente Amplio head, made the announcement, and added that they will also summon the legal representatives of INCOFER subcontracted companies, which […]
Outrage protest against UCR chacellor
The protest has been organized by the Employees’ Union (SINDEU) and the Students’ Federation (FEUCR) of University of Costa Rica (UCR). They are requesting that the case of chancellor Henning Jensen does not remain unpunished by the University Council. We are joining the call from the Students’ Federation, to participate in the Outrage protest (…) […]
Train service will be restored to normal
On Wednesday, the train operators will resume their duties as an agreement has been reached, meaning that INCOFER service is going to be fully enabled. They will receive a raise of salaries, but the company shall inform how much it will be within 15 days. We are happy because before we didn’t know if we […]
Water service suspended in Desamparados de Alajuela
The water service will be suspended in Desamparados de Alajuela, on Wednesday from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., due to the maintenance on the pumping system, informed Alajuela’s Municipality. The affected communities will be: El Mojón, La Españolita street, Jerusalén street, Gutiérrez street, from the crossing La Españolita to La Amistad supermarket, La Claudia street […]
Facebook group is calling for “a national protest” against taxi drivers
A Facebook group with more than 10,000 members, asked not to use cabs as a response to last week taxi drivers’ demonstration against Uber. Allan Rivera, group admin, explained that this protest urges people to stop using taxi services on Monday and Tuesday. Taxi drivers’ main challenge is not to eliminate other transportation services that involve […]
The 4 economic risks that Costa Rica could face
The Macroeconomic Review Program 2016-2017 presented by the Central Bank indicated that the country could face 4 economic risks in the near future. The main threats are: Excessive liquidity in the financial system: which means that those funds could be spent, causing an effect on the prices and therefore on the inflation. Credits (in USD […]