One of the issues that has caused controversy since the delivery of the spending plan 2017 is the Special Fund for Higher Education (FEES). Legislators considered that 38 billion colones is an excessive request when compared to the current one. However, Luis Guillermo Solís reaffirmed his position. During his speech at the celebration of the […]
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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a dangerous disease
Being male, middle-aged, that has been exposed to herbicides and insecticides or that has suffered from autoimmune diseases, makes a person more vulnerable to the development of a type of cancer that can be very aggressive: non-Hodgkin lymphoma. However, science is constantly studying this type of lymphomas, also called solids tumors, which affect the lymphatic […]
Workshops for caregivers!
There will be free workshops that will help caregivers to make their job a little more bearable. The workshops will start on September 23rd at the Gerontology Center of Curridabat. They will take place from 9:00 am to 11:00 am. Aaron Hernández, medical coordinator of Ebais Unibe, informed that for this particular workshop they have […]
The Reventazón Hydroelectric Project: a great investment that will benefit all citizens
The Reventazón Hydroelectric Project (PHR) cost about 5 times more than Route 27 and about 8 times more than the expansion of the Cachí Hydroelectric Plant. Such a work required engineering ingenuity, experience, innovation, control, prudence. It required a financial engineering that was based on the long experience of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) […]
A man was sentenced for forcing a 14-year-old girl to shoot porn videos
A man will spend the next 14 years in prison for taking advantage of a 14-year-old drug addict to produce pornography. The case dates back to 2009 in San José, when a subject surnamed Mora Calderón forced the girl, who lived alone, to pretend to be an adult to sign a contract to provide sexual […]
1,018 cases of Zika have been confirmed
The Ministry of Health confirmed the increase of Zika cases: there are 1,018 patients. According to the data, there were 54 positive Zika cases per week until the end of August. Authorities are worried about Puntarenas, because Zika has greatly attacked that area, followed by Matina. In addition, over 100 cases of patients with chikungunya and […]