Archives for June 2018

The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) will hold community blood donation days and you can participate. On June 24th, there was one at the facilities of the Red Cross in San Antonio de Belén. Another one is scheduled for July 1st in Cueva de los Leones in Moravia. Additionally, two community donation days are […]

The Government requested the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE) a loan for $425 million to finance the project that will improve water supply in three cantons of Guanacaste. The request was made by the Minister of Finance, Rocío Aguilar, in a note directed on June 11th before the director of the BCIE for […]

The Chamber of Exporters of Costa Rica (CADEXCO) made a call to the national authorities as a result of the crisis that continues to expand in Nicaragua, the fifth commercial partner of the country. Nicaragua is also a transit territory for exports going to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Although until May the figures to […]

The instability caused by the end of tropical wave number 8 and the arrival of a new one scheduled for Sunday had an impact in several sectors of the country, mainly in the province of Limón. According to the National Commission of Emergencies (CNE) during Saturday night and early Sunday, there were seven incidents, which […]

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 […]