Yanina Soto, Institute for Municipal Development’s executive director, announced that Abangares’ aqueduct will be improved. Improvements in the aqueduct are meant to provide water to more than 18,000 inhabitants. IFAM is planning to build a water intake structure between Gongolona gorge and Boston gorge confluence and the water conduction pipelines to a new desander. The […]
Archives for July 26, 2016
Proposal to pull 4 large crocodiles from Tamarindo estuary
Juan Marín, legislator from the National Liberation Party (PLN), and tourism entrepreneurs suggest to pull 4 large crocodiles from Tamarindo estuary in Santa Cruz de Guanacaste. The legislator said the proposal was made on Monday by the Minister of Environment and Energy (MINAE), Edgar Gutiérrez, with whom they spoke in Nicoya. Marín expressed his support […]
Nicoya’s protesters against Solís
Opposition to the project of animal abuse and promises made in campaign to help those affected by Nemagón pesticide were the two themes of the posters trotted around by people from Guanacaste who held a demonstration in park Briceño Recadero in Nicoya. President Solís said that this administration is committed to animals, who are like […]
Solís supports COMEX minister
Laura Garro, Franklin Corella, Otton Solís, Epsy Campbell, Marvin Atencio, Javier Cambronero, Nidia Jiménez, Emilia Mora, Marco Vinicio Redondo, Henry Mora and Marlene Madrigal, 11 out the 13 members from the Citizen Action Party (PAC) requested the resignation of Minister of Foreign Trade, Alexander Mora. However, President Luis Guillermo Solís ratified his official support to […]
Costa Rican Esteban Gazel will receive Kuno prize!
Costa Rican Esteban Gazel will be awarded by The American Geophysical Union with an international recognition due to the impact of his research in earth sciences. Gazel is a geologist who got graduated from the School of Geology at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in 2005. He currently works as a professor in the […]
Court rules in favor of JUDESUR in landfill case
The Southern Development Board (JUDESUR) won an appeal that allows them not to transfer funds to build a landfill. The Constitutional Court rejected the appeal lodged by the Federation of Municipalities of the South (FEDEMSUR) regarding the funds they demanded from JUDESUR. According to the resolution, FEDEMSUR must comply with the environmental law in force […]