The possible contamination of 310,000 bags of saline solution caused 270 surgeries to be postponed at Hospitals Mexico, Calderon Guaria and San Juan de Dios. The quarantined bags were being analyzed at ITEC and UCR.
The suspected contamination occured at the CCSS plant in Heredia, where the solutions are made using an underground source. Parts of […]
ICE is promising that the new batch of cellular telephone lines will go on sale as promised on December 5th, even though the installation of the network is not 100% complete. Orlando Cascante, Director of Mobil Services for ICE said that 9 base stations are not installed. Of the 600,000 line capacity, 250,000 will be […]
Thousands of entrepeneurs, students, workers and families marched yesterday along 2nd Avenue to the Legislative Assembly. Unlike the anti-CAFTA demonstrators, they left lanes open to traffic so there were no abnormal delays in the downtown area.
Employees of Café Britt, Tico Fruit, Demasa, Intel and Conair, had the day free so they could show their […]
Gay activists are pushing presidential candidates for support in formalizing their relationships under the common law statutes, with an eye to later allowing gay marriage and adoptions. According to activists, the homosexual vote numbers 250,000. Which would be 10% of the vote in the Costa Rican electorate of 2,550,613.
"Marriage is what we yearn for, but […]
Expresident Rafael Ángel Calderón, who was arrested in the Caja-Fischel kickback scandal, hosted 40 former and current representatives in the Casa Italia on Wednesday. The main topic of conversation was how to regain confindence from voters in the February election in order to gain as many seats in the Assembly as possible.
Calderón confirmed his […]
