Archives for June 21, 2018

The femicides that have occurred this year have resulted in 14 orphans, 11 of which are minors with ages ranging from 8 months old to 14 years old. This follows from a compilation made by the Observatory on Gender Violence against Women and the Access to Justice of the Judiciary. The institution indicated that, until […]

As a necessary condition to create greater wealth and wellbeing in the population, the entrepreneurs of the Costa Rican Chamber of the Food Industry (CACIA) ask the government authorities to take actions that promote an improvement in the country’s competitiveness. It is impossible to promote welfare if the private sector is not highly competitive. The […]

The Legislative Assembly will cut a total of ¢5,500 million in what’s left of this year and 2019. The agreement was made by the Legislative Board, as announced on Thursday by the president of the Congress, Carolina Hidalgo. Of the total, ¢3 billion will be deducted from the budget that is being executed and another […]

On Thursday, minister of Justice and Peace Marcia González talked before the legislative committee of Security and Drug Trafficking. One of González’s plans is the creation of three thousand new prison spaces, which would be added to the 1,600 that will be delivered at the end of this year from the managements made during the […]

The Defense Committee of the Virilla River indicated through a statement that for more than a year it has tried to raise awareness and demand actions regarding the alleged invasion of the Virilla river basin by a private company. A tragedy occurred on Thursday that we have been denouncing for months: a landslide in Santo […]

President Carlos Alvarado said on Thursday that the news about a Costa Rican boy who was abandoned in the Arizona desert, in the border with the United States, filled him with anguish. Therefore he ordered the institutions involved in his attention to prioritize the case to expedite his return to Costa Rica. He added that […]