The Government and the National Association of Educators (ANDE) disagree again, this time in relation to the PISA and high school tests. Although the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) highlighted the importance of Costa Rica participating in the implementation of PISA international tests, ANDE expressed that this type of evaluation “hampers education”. The PISA Report […]
Natalia Díaz: “Plan would affect Netflix and Spotify users”
Legislator Natalia Díaz from Movimiento Libertario party, expressed that a bill that would force Netflix and Spotify to pay operators (ICE, Claro and Movistar) for using the network would affect users. The initiative was presented by legislator Jorge Arguedas, from Frente Amplio, who said that the entertainment companies have created applications whose commercialization generates “millions […]
Political exhaustion would affect PAC and FA in 2018 elections
Although there are still 14 months to go before the next presidential election in Costa Rica, political analysts place the Citizen Action Party (PAC) and Frente Amplio (FA) as the weakest candidates for the electoral contest. The reasons for this are the political exhaustion of the PAC after its first administration in the Executive Branch, […]
Costa Rican Ambassador to The Netherlands will negotiate Nicaraguan Compensation
The President of the Republic announced that the Foreign Ministry has issued specific orders to the Costa Rican Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sergio Ugalde, to meet with his Nicaraguan counterpart to discuss the compensation to be paid by his country for the environmental damage to Isla Portillos. The neighboring nation has until December 16th to […]
Disagreements make it difficult for Upala to receive emergency budget on time
The extraordinary resources to address the emergency caused by Hurricane Otto in Upala are being delayed due to conflicts in the Legislative Assembly. In a few days, the public institutions will cease their activities for what’s left of the year and the Legislative Assembly must hurry to approve a budget of 2 billion colones intended […]
Costa Rican Government assured that Mike Pence’s phone call was “cordial, positive and constructive”
On December 8th, US vice President-elect Mike Pence called the President of the Republic, Luis Guillermo Solís, to his personal cell phone. Pence talked briefly with Solís and, according to the Presidential House, he had words of praise for Costa Rica. The contact was described as ‘cordial, positive and constructive’ by the government. The call […]