President Carlos Alvarado will visit Panama this Wednesday to talk to his Panamanian counterpart, Juan Carlos Varela, about the political and humanitarian crises in Nicaragua and Venezuela. The presidential meeting will be in the city of Boquete, in the Panamanian province of Chiriqui. The meeting had been agreed upon during Alvarado’s recent visit to the […]
Archives for February 2019
Banco Nacional is not asking for information by phone
If alleged officials of the National Bank call you and ask for some information about your account, do not respond! The bank warns its customers about phone scams. Criminals request sensitive information and then hurt your finances. The National Bank is not carrying out this campaign. We never ask for sensitive information about the accounts […]
Executive establishes new limits for public employment
The government issued a new decree to regulate the new delimitations on public employment and remunerations, which were approved in the Law on Strengthening Public Finances (Law 9635). The regulation, published this Monday in the official newspaper La Gaceta, defines the rules for the interpretation and application of the law in everything related to the […]
American investigated for fraud in the US hid in Costa Rica
A 42-year-old American wanted by the United States justice system for an alleged millionaire fraud of nearly $36 million, sought Costa Rica as his destination to flee from the authorities. However, he did not achieve his goal. Paul McDaniel, who called himself Edward Martin Karuku and resided in Orange County (California), committed the crimes and […]
Two opposition leaders in Nicaragua were sentenced to more than 200 years in prison
On Monday, Nicaraguan justice imposed sentences of more than 200 years in prison on opposition leaders Medardo Mairena and Pedro Mena for participating in the violent protests against the government of Daniel Ortega last years. Mairena was sentenced to 216 years in prison for “terrorism” and six other crimes attributed by the Prosecutor to his […]
MINAE asks suspension of regulation on pesticides
A report from the Ministry of Environment sent to the Constitutional Chamber requests the suspension of Executive Decree 39995 on the registration of pesticides in the country. The institution believes this regulation “violates the precautionary principle” by exposing the population and the environment to pesticides that lack ecotoxitological studies. The introduction of pesticides to Costa […]