The General Accounting Office in Costa Rica annulled the contract for prepaid cell phone lines that the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE by its initials in Spanish) had awarded to Ericsson of Costa Rica.

The General Accounting Office heard an appeal from another firm concerned, the Chinese company Huawei Technologies, which questions Ericsson because it offered a discount on the ICE platform that would enable the launch of 2.5 million lines for prepaid cellular and fixed...

marcob

The Active Citizenship Association and the Association of Graduates and Teachers will give a course of 20 hours on November 1 and 15, with the idea of training teachers for both primary and secondary school in Costa Rica on the tradition of “Boyeo and Carreta,” or ox handling and carts.

This course will be recognized by the Civil Service and will take place in the mini auditorium of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Costa Rica (UCR by its initials in Spanish) from...

marcob

The artist, Carlos Tapia, from Costa Rica is convinced that it is necessary to use a lot of color and many elements in the given space to tell stories about the American continent.

In his most recent exhibition of paintings, called "Maximalism," which is presented in the National Gallery of the Children’s Museum, he uses this idea that more colors and more forms give a better expression of the message.

Tapia said, "The idea that more is more is the best...

marcob

The global financial situation, which has already been in crisis for days, is showing its consequences in the construction sector in Costa Rica.

According to the vice president of the Costa Rican Chamber of Construction (CCC), Juan Jose Castro, there are currently 25 thousand workers who lost their jobs. This is because housing and hotel projects have been paralyzed.

At the same time, Castro said that if no solutions are implemented in a short period, the number...

marcob

The Santa Rosa National Park, in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, has a greater number of white-faced Capuchin and Howler monkeys each day.

The count was conducted by researcher Linda Fedigan of the University of Calgary (Canada) and indicates that as the years have passed, there are more specimens of these two species of primates.

In 1972 there were 85 Howler and 300 white-faced Capuchin monkeys. The number rose to 620 Howler and 740 white-faced Capuchin monkeys.
...

marcob