The operations of the transnational Intel have been refocused on the design of the technology that is manufactured outside the Costa Rican borders, after ceasing the construction of microprocessors in the country two years ago. We are working on the technology that the market will see in 2018,” said Sergio Pacheco, a member of the […]
MEP forced teacher to give “100” grades to students who did not fulfill an assignment
Two students from the Vicente Lachner High School in Cartago, who did not submit a Civic project, received the grade of “100”. The teacher gave them a “1” because during the whole second quarter of this year they did not give any advance of the project nor the final work. However the Ministry ordered him […]
ECLAC: Redundant Institutions are atrophying Infrastructure Development
The existence of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT), the National Highway Council (CONAVI) and the municipalities, is saturating the solution of a single problem: the atrophied road infrastructure that afflicts Costa Rica. Through a report, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) noted the counterproductive deconcentration in decision-making to […]
According to ICEFI, the lack of a fiscal agreement jeopardizes the country’s social achievements
According to Abelardo Medina, an economist at the Central American Institute of Fiscal Sciences (ICEFI), the lack of a definitive agreement on a tax reform in Costa Rica is putting the social achievements of the last 40 years at risk. Medina evaluated the country’s draft budget for 2017 and estimated that maintaining the medium-and long-term prospects of […]
Ministry of Health will rely on survey’s results to improve policies on sexual health care
The result of the Second National Survey of Sexual and Reproductive Health that was carried out in the country in 2015 was presented on December 12th. More than 3,200 men and women were interviewed to determined that: -More than half of the women surveyed and two thirds of the men have had sex at 18 […]
Ottón Solís urges Constitutional Reform
Legislator and founder of Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), Ottón Solís, called on the Legislative Assembly to expedite the process of a Constitutional Reform that would sanction Legislators with the withdrawal of their credentials if they fail to their probity duty. Here at the Assembly we talk about ethics, we criticize others for corruption, but we […]