Recovering communities affected by hurricane Otto will require an investment of near 130 billion colones. This is shown in the General Emergency Recovery Plan, which was approved by the Board of Directors of the National Emergency Commission (CNE). Out of that amount, 96.5 billion colones will be taken from the National Emergency Fund and 33.5 billion […]
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More than 400 people asked for a maintenance allowance in 2016
463 people were studied in 2016 after they applied for a maintenance allowance for inability to work or because they suffer from illnesses such as depression, diabetes, hypertension, hernias and cataracts. This is shown by the statistics from the Labor Medicine Unit of the Judiciary, an entity that evaluates children and adults every day. According […]
FARC guerrilla begins disarmament in Colombia
The FARC, Colombia’s main guerrilla group, began the process of disarmament, an essential point of the peace agreement signed with the government to end half a century of confrontation. Historic news for Colombians,” tweeted President Juan Manuel Santos hours before the disarmament of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) began in different areas throughout […]
1,542 MEP officials have recently resigned
Since the beginning of the school year, the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) has received 1,542 resignations. Officials resign due to “personal matters”, but they also argued that the want to spend more time with their families, that they do not like the location of the educational center or that there is no Internet in […]
2,375 MEP officials have been relocated
To date, thousands of workers from the Ministry of Public Education have had to be relocated in order to protect their health. Yaxinia Díaz, MEP’s Director of Human Resources, explains that a relocation consists of compliance with the workers’ rights under Article 254 of the Labor Code, which stipulates that if the official does not […]
SUTEL new policy is in force
The Superintendence of Telecommunications (SUTEL) defends its policy of “fair use of the internet”, despite criticism and warnings by the Ombudsman. This regulation, which applies to ICE-Kölbi customers from March 1st and which already applies to Movistar and Claro users, states that when consuming the total contracted data, the navigation speed is kept to 128 […]