Costa Rica News, Summarized in English and Linked to the Source

Experian Costa Rica company, located in La Aurora de Heredia, will hire staff in the next two years to get 1,300 employees and, during this month, it will look for 85 collaborators who can submit their résumés on October 1st at a job fair that will be held in C12 America Free Zone Building from […]

About 60 taxi drivers cornered an Uber driver at Esparza, Puntarenas in order to attack him. Last Saturday afternoon, taxi drivers chased him to block the route he was driving, as confirmed by Carlos Hidalgo, a representative from the Public Security Department. Uber driver crashed due to the persecution against him. A few minutes later […]

“Stop dictatorship, we don’t accept the electoral fraud!” Under these premises, a group of at least 30 Nicaraguans protested in front of their Embassy. Protesters are asking the Nicaraguan community in Costa Rica to not vote on November 6th. Let’s not vote, let’s not go out, so that, this election won’t be legitimized. If we vote, they […]

At about 9:00 pm on Sunday, Turrialba volcano erupted again. It lasted until midnight. Eliecer Duarte, volcanologist at the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) declared that the volcanic activity started at 9:10 pm and it is unknown the ash colum’s height. However, the eruption had a great magnitude. Authorities determined that the […]

The Board of Directors from the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) approved a 3.4 billion colones budget for 2017. the CCSS allocated 2.1 billion colones for Health Insurance, 1.1 billion colones for the Disability, Old Age and Death Department (IVM) and 149,667 million colones for the Non-Contributory Pension Department. In addition, more than 145 […]

The road to success is not easy. Sandra Cauffman is from Hatillo and she is conquering the stars. She had a difficult childhood and adolescence, attacked by poverty and domestic violence. Nevertheless, this electrical engineer was able to overcome all problems: she used her skills and talents to get ahead and nowadays she is the current […]