Archives for July 19, 2016

The delay in the approval of the bill “Law to improve the fight against tax fraud” puts Costa Rica’s fiscal revenues in a difficult situation and calls into question some international commitments such as those made by the country due to its interest in entering the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Within 15 […]

Reports of the crime of sex with minors almost tripled in ten years, as they went from 317 in 2005, to reach a total of 914 complaints in 2014. This was revealed by the Statistics Department of the Judiciary, where there is steady increase of complaints filed in courts for this offense in the last […]

With calls, messages and visits to homes, the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) seeks to outsmart the school drop rates after the midyear break. This indicator showed an increase in 2015, when 3,000 students left the classroom, compared to the same period of 2014. María Alexandra Ulate, coordinator of the corporate strategy “Yo me apunto” […]

The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) paid ¢23 million for compensation as a result of an expropriation carried out the previous year according to a report by the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR). According to the court’s ruling, the ministry had to pay ¢ 3,160,905 colones. However, a payment of more than 26 […]

In “the happiest country in the world” 5% of young people aged 15 to 19 years old, think it is justifiable for a man to hit his love partner in certain situations, as stated in a 2014 report from the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). According to this document, 126 million young men (52% […]

Daniela Mendoza is a Costa Rican biologist based in Chile. She and her husband Matías Gutiérrez, a Chilean biochemist, developed a venture that today is an established and recognized company in that country. Biochemistry CL focuses in developing experimental methodology to teach science. The idea is that children learn by playing and experimenting without having […]