On Monday morning, the Municipality of San José presented a SUV equipped with the highest technology that will be used by the Municipal Police to fight criminals. The vehicle has screens, video players, tents, radios, computers and an office that allows the vehicle to become a mobile command post. We want from San José to […]
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According to ICEFI, the lack of a fiscal agreement jeopardizes the country’s social achievements
According to Abelardo Medina, an economist at the Central American Institute of Fiscal Sciences (ICEFI), the lack of a definitive agreement on a tax reform in Costa Rica is putting the social achievements of the last 40 years at risk. Medina evaluated the country’s draft budget for 2017 and estimated that maintaining the medium-and long-term prospects of […]
Drop in ICE electricity rates approved for next year
The Regulatory Authority for Public Services (ARESEP) approved a reduction in electricity rates from the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) in all its system, which will come into effect on January 1st, 2017. The rate reduction responds to the fact that the Reventazón Project was not included in the calculation of the base rate, because […]
App will let you know the progress of the list of surgeries in the CCSS
A mobile app tells you the position of your pending surgery in the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS). “Surgical Route” is an aggregate of the app of the Single Health Record (EDUS) that allow patients from 21 hospitals and the Eye Clinic to keep track of their surgeries since the moment they were scheduled. […]
Ministry of Health will rely on survey’s results to improve policies on sexual health care
The result of the Second National Survey of Sexual and Reproductive Health that was carried out in the country in 2015 was presented on December 12th. More than 3,200 men and women were interviewed to determined that: -More than half of the women surveyed and two thirds of the men have had sex at 18 […]
António Guterres swears in as new Secretary General of the UN
Yesterday, the Portuguese António Guterres took office as the new Secretary General of the United Nations. Guterres will replace the Sout Korean Ban Ki-moon next January 1st. I, António Guterres, do solemnly swear to exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience, the functions entrusted to me as secretary general of the United Nations,” said the […]