On Monday, the National Emergency Commission (CNE) referred to the First National Evacuation Drill due to earthquake, which is scheduled for August 19th. With the presence of relief authorities, such as the Fire Department and the Costa Rican Red Cross, the institution provided details of the drill that will take place from 9:00 am and […]
Archives for August 2019
There was an attempted robbery in the National Bank
At least four men tried to assault the branch of the National Bank in San Miguel de Sarapiquí, in Heredia, but were not able to enter the bank because private security guards closed the doors. Faced with this situation, as can be seen in a video, the subjects had to return to the car in […]
CCSS will not apply fiscal rule
On Monday night it was confirmed that the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) will not apply the cost control measure called fiscal rule. The exoneration is part of the agreements between the government and health unions to end the strike that affected the sector in the last week. As it is read in point […]
Central Bank confirms low impact of VAT on inflation
Last Thursday, INEC announced that July inflation was 0.73%, the highest of the year and first since the VAT came into effect. However, the Central Bank reported that this result is consistent with the provisions of the 2019-2020 Macroeconomic Program of January 2019, and its recent review last month. The inflation projections in these documents […]
Legal loophole prevents Costa Rica from eradicating clandestine tracks
The lack of a specific law is an obstacle so that this country’s anti-drug authorities can counteract the use of clandestine tracks through which aircraft with large quantities of drugs are mobilized. Public Security Minister Michael Soto confirmed that in Costa Rica there are more than 105 landing spaces of an illegal nature, many of […]
Project to give new life to La Sabana is 97% complete
Around 100 volunteers from different organizations and companies gathered on Saturday morning in order to plant 84 trees of 12 different native species in La Sabana Metropolitan Park. This was the first planting day in 2019, the last year of intervention of the rearrangement project baptized as “Una Nueva Sabana”. The initiative aims to reach […]