Archives for July 22, 2019

A research carried out at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (TEC) could have found the cure of the condition known as diabetic foot and a relief for people suffering from severe skin burns. The experiment allowed the Guatemalan scientist, María Isabel Amorín, to create a product derived from the shrimp exoskeleton, which today is […]

The leader of the taxi drivers, Rubén Vargas Campos, announced on Facebook that the union will hold a demonstration on July 23rd, starting at 9:00 a.m. in Paseo Colón to support the legislators who promote the draft Law of reform of the system of paid transport of people and regulation of the companies of technological […]

The Japanese love coffee from Costa Rica, to the point of paying $65.30 per pound of the grain in the 2019 Cup of Excellence electronic auction. The coffee comes from Santa María de Dota, in the area of ​​Los Santos, on the farms of Los Grandes de Copey group, and was acquired by Maruyama Coffee […]

The signing of the Association Agreement between the United Kingdom and Central America (Aacru) will allow Costa Rica to maintain the preferential access conditions of its products to the British market. This was reported by the British-Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce, which celebrated the signing of the agreement in Nicaragua, before the departure of the […]

In a recent study, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warned that failure to stop the sea level rise due to climate change in time would cause costs of about 4% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP). The Organization, to which Costa Rica aspires to enter in the medium term, stressed that […]

A group of divers, tourists and coastguard officers who sailed in the waters of Drake Bay (Osa, Puntarenas) saved a whale and its calves that were trapped in nets in the South Pacific. Without thinking twice when they saw the cetaceans approach, men and women threw themselves into the water with knives and pliers to […]