Next Thursday, civil society groups will demonstrate peacefully in front of the Legislative Assembly against road violence. The demonstration will take place after the death of three cyclists in Curridabat last Sunday. The three sportsmen were hit by a driver in a black Mustang. The groups will demand the implementation of 10 actions as soon […]
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Ponderosa Adventure Park welcomes Lydia, the tenth Costa Rican giraffe
On Monday, Liberia saw the birth of the tenth Costa Rican giraffe. The 50-kilo and meter-and-a-half female giraffe was named Lydia. The giraffe is the first born of the year. According to Tania Pivovarova, veterinarian at Ponderosa Adventure Park, the country must be proud of Lydia’s birth, because not all zoos are successful at giraffe […]
sexual extortion on the Internet is increasing
The Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ) recorded a total of 80 cases of sexual extortion over the internet in the last year. According to Erick Lewis, director of the OIJ Computer Crime Unit, criminals are foreign gangs that, through social networks, convince men to keep “virtual sex.” They use newly-created Facebook profiles, there are no friends […]
Solís: “the Central Bank’s autonomy prevents us from changing the decision”
President Luis Guillermo Solís thinks that the salary increase approved by the board of the Central Bank is inappropiate and to the detriment of the message of the Government. Solís declared that Minister of Finance Helio Fallas, who is member of the board, did not approve the increase and although there are several directors who […]
The state contribution for the 2018 elections will be ¢ 25,029,906,960
¢ 25,029,906,960 may be used by political parties for expenses in the 2018 elections, as agreed by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE). This state contribution can be used to finance, among other things, propaganda, parades, operational, functional and administrative expenses, training, registration and opinion studies. However, they will have to confirm to the TSE that […]
Hybrid vehicles won’t benefit from Bill No. 19744
In spite of the pressures, the Government and the Administration Commission rejected the motions, most of them presented by legislator Rafael Ortiz through article 137 of the Legislative Regulation, that intended to include other dirty automotive technologies in the package of exonerations that Bill No. 19744 grants to electric vehicles. Legislator Marcela Guerrero, who proposed the […]