Different environmental groups requested the National Liquor Factory (Fanal) to reduce the use of plastic materials in their products and thus reduce the impact on the environment. The request is part of a pronouncement made by Preserve Planet for all government institutions to align with the “National Strategy for Single-Use Plastic Replacement”, which seeks to […]
Archives for July 10, 2018
Toucan Fest will beautify Juan Santamaría Airport
Juan Santamaría International Airport (AIJS) is preparing to receive the Toucan Fest, an exhibition of toucan sculptures that will be placed throughout the international terminal. Therefore, the company Aeris, administrator of the airport, is summoning national artists, either emerging or consolidated, in order to capture their talent in the works and then be exposed to […]
Costa Rica Piano Festival will be held from July 16th to 21st
The fifth edition of the “Costa Rica Piano Festival” will take place from July 16th to July 21st. This event that brings together a group of pianists who promise to delight the audience with their performances and to train young national and foreign musicians. The main venue will be at the School of Musical Arts […]
Panama sentences murderer arrested in Jacó to 50 years in prison
The Panamanian justice condemned the Dominican Gilberto Ventura Ceballos to fifty years in prison for murdering five young university students in that country. Ventura, a 42-year-old dangerous international criminal, took refuge in Costa Rica for several months after escaping from a Panamanian prison. He was arrested in Jacó in September 2017, in a joint operation […]
Craft brewers come together to highlight Costa Rican product
An agreement between the Association of Craft Brewers of Costa Rica (ACACR) and High Technology Center Foundation (FunCeNAT), will allow 42 breweries to enhance the production of craft beer in Costa Rica as an innovative product. According to researchers José Pablo Quirós and Iray Mata, specialists in bioprocesses, the relationship between the National Center for […]
Taxi drivers: Government said we can create an app for us
The union of taxi drivers says the Government said they’ll use some of their offices to create an application that allows them to offer the service of transporting people, just as is done through the Uber platform. Gilberth Ureña, spokesman for the National Taxi Drivers Forum, said that this had been one of the agreements […]