Archives for August 24, 2016

The Distinguished Fire Brigade of Costa Rica will be better prepared for earthquakes, floods or major fires. This is achieved through working in lifting georeferenced information in different places of the 7 provinces. The work will take place over the next 9 months. The firefighters will collect structures’ data to create a national database on […]

The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) received new applications to be part of the Voluntary Labour Mobility Program (MLV), a process that finished this month. 419 people submitted their request, but applications in business areas, commercial management or customer service were denied. A press release indicated that these cases should be studied because the measure should […]

Legislator Mario Redondo, from the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA), presented a bill to strengthen the quality of Costa Rican education. According to Redondo, the proposal seeks to ensure continuous evaluation of the design, organization and results of the educational system. The initiative links the resources constitutionally allocated for state education to achieving quality results in […]

Immigrants at Nicaragua border received help from some hotels and a group of residents organized by Peñaranda family. Claudio Sánchez, Peñaranda family’s young member, explained that they organized themselves on Saturday and on Tuesday, they donated vegetables and other things. The boy said that the biggest reward was immigrants’ appreciation. They are located at the Costa […]

The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) has included 29 active ingredients and medicines to improve the control and development of diseases such as HIV, whooping cough, hepatitis C and cancer. Albín Chaves, director of epidemiology at the Fund, said that adding new, effective drugs for patients is a challenge because it requires studies to […]

President Luis Guillermo Solís returned from Washington with suitcases full of optimism to keep fighting against organized crime and drug trafficking organizations, thanks to the donation made by the United States: two 110-feet patrol boats and two cargo planes C-45, among other things. The boats, valued at $ 30 million, will arrive in the country […]