Several institutions seek to achieve a change in businesses in Barrio Amón so they can say goodbye to single-use plastics, which are the main pollutant of the oceans. The so-called Amón Initiative is to educate and sensitize the managers of neighboring businesses. The merchants are receiving information on the harmful effects to the environment and […]
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Top Wall Street executive killed by shark attack in Isla del Coco
The American tourist attacked by a shark in Isla del Coco was a senior Wall Street executive in New York. Rohina Bhandari, 49, died on Thursday morning attacked by a female tiger shark. The woman, an American with Hindu ancestry, suffered severe injuries to her lower extremities, which caused her death almost immediately. Bhandari participated […]
Hondurans take to the streets to denounce an electoral “fraud”
Protesters repeated “Leave, JOH! Out, JOH!” (Hernandez’s initials), accusing the president of leading a fraud and the electoral tribunal to orchestrate a “robbery” to Nasralla (64), a television presenter and candidate of the leftist Alliance of Opposition Against the Dictatorship. The votes are being stolen,” said Jesús Elvis, a 58-year-old accountant carrying a banner near […]
Legislators endorse project to encourage the use of bicycles
Legislators of the Environment Commission unanimously endorsed a bill that aims to encourage the use of bicycles and other alternative means of transport. The initiative, called the Law for mobility and bicycle safety, was affirmatively approved by that legislative body. The proposal, promoted by Edgardo Araya, from Frente Amplio, aims to declare the public interest […]
More than a thousand kilos of coca confiscated in Quepos
This weekend, the authorities of the National Coastguard Service (SNGC) and the Drug Control Police (PCD), along with the support of the United States, located a boat with 1300 kilograms of cocaine. The finding occurred 55 nautical miles off the coast of Quepos. In addition, four Costa Ricans named Manzanares González, Hernández González, Hernández González […]
Plastic caps and a comb found inside a fish
Have you thought about the fate of a bottle cap once you throw it away? Sometimes, it ends up in a garbage dump, but a large number of them remain in our seas and animals end up suffering. A video published on Facebook by the Romelia National Wildlife Refuge in Montezuma shows how a man […]