Q24N (TheGuardian) For more than 20 years, Lidieth Gomez’s days have been punctuated by the hum of crop-spraying planes. At dawn and dusk, the skies over Matina, capital of Limón province on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, are filled with aircraft spraying a viscous rain of agrochemicals on to banana plantations. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2024
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QCOSTARICA — Starting October 1, just like in other countries or in movies, getting married in Costa Rica is less complicated, individuals will have the option to get married directly at the Civil Registry. The changes are a result of the implementation of the new Family Procedural Code (Código Procesal […]
Despite the challenges Costa Rica has been facing regarding energy production, the government has resisted lowering tariffs on alternative energy sources, such as solar panels. On August 23rd, the Board of Directors of the Public Services Regulatory Authority (ARESEP) received a new tariff methodology proposal to charge those who produce […]
Costa Rica now has official diplomatic representation in Vietnam, with Víctor Hugo Rojas appointed as the concurrent ambassador to that country. Weeks ago, the Government Council had authorized the surcharge for González. He is a resident ambassador to Singapore and from there he will be carrying out Hanoi-related matters. This […]
The deputies of the Environmental Commission voted against File 23.463, the “Law to Promote the Economic Development of the Coasts by Declaring the Sailfish a National Symbol in the Economic, Social, and Cultural Development of Costa Rica.” The vote was narrowly decided. Gilberth Jiménez and Katherine Moreira of the PLN, […]
More than 200 interactive screens featuring tourist images of our country in the main metro stations of Paris, presence in high-reach media, and participation in events with professionals from the French tourism sector are some of the actions being taken. Costa Rica is developing a series of promotional actions in […]
Since the 1960s, the University of Costa Rica (UCR) has ventured into the use of computational tools for solving scientific problems. With the arrival of Matilde on campus, the first electronic computer in Costa Rica, the opportunity arose for new highly specialized careers and professions in computing to be born […]
The creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI, launched a new line of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models capable of reasoning and answering particularly complex questions, such as those in mathematics. Unlike their predecessors, these new models have been designed to refine their thought processes, test different methods, and recognize errors before providing […]
The number of electric cars on the roads of Norway has surpassed that of gasoline models for the first time, a specialized agency announced this past week. Of the 2.8 million registered individual vehicles in the country, 754,303 are fully electric compared to 753,905 that run on gasoline, reported the […]
Congresswoman Sofía Guillén of the Frente Amplio accused President Rodrigo Chaves’ government of being a “narco-government.” “We are already living in a narco-state. What we thought would never happen to us has finally happened,” Guillén stated. Her claims are based on several incidents: the kilos of cocaine that left Costa […]