The number of Costa Rican girls that are battling obesity is growing at an alarming rate a situation that is affecting practically every country in the world, a condition that is now considered a pandemic. A report by the Center for Non-Communicable Diseases and the World Health Organization (WHO) which analyzed 2,416 studies carried out from 1975 through 2016 that measured weight and height of...

The Costa Rican man who has been held in detention since his arrest in early February following the gruesome murder of five university students in January in the northern Costa Rican city of Liberia, capital of Guanacaste will attend a preliminary hearing Thursday, said the Public Security Ministry. The hearing, which was originally scheduled in Liberia for October 6, was postponed due to the n...

Women in Costa Rica are better educated, but have fewer employment opportunities. This, and the concentration of poverty among women and girls, are some of the recent findings of the 2017 State of World Population report published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) The report focuses on reproductive health and rights in times of inequality. "In Costa Rica between 2010 and 2016 the i...

The Costa Rican Children's Museum (Museo de Niños) in downtown San José, recently opened a new area for children and adults alike to learn and explore different science topics. The new space was funded by the Costa Rican State Electricity Institute (ICE) and the Foundation Fundación Ayúdenos para Ayudar, which translates to "help us to help." The foundation's mission is to run the Costa Rican S...

A 15-year-old foreign tourist dropped from a height of about 35 meters while he was on a canopy tour in Costa Rica's northern Pacific coast town of Sámara. The incident occurred in Santo Domingo de Sámara on Wednesday afternoon, reported the Nicoya Red Cross who attended the incident. Once the young man was stabilized, his parents rented a private helicopter to transfer him to a medical cent...

Four students from the Costa Rican Technological Institute were selected to participate in the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) organized by the United States Department of State for creating Atomik Monsters, a digital platform for teaching chemistry. Jean Carlo Gómez, student of industrial design; Kenneth Fernandez and Rodrigo López, from the computer engineering department, and...

All Cen-Cinai programs except for seven will resume services tomorrow, Monday, October 9, said the Ministry of Health this evening, Sunday, October 8, 2017. And one will re-open Tuesday. The women, infant and children centers will return to their provision of nutritional assistance for pregnant and nursing women, and infants; and child development programs - both daytime, and evening services -...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) released an update of its annual child labor report, 2016 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, which includes research on child labor in 135 countries, and is accompanied by the release of the updated Sweat & Toil mobile app. Costa Rica is listed in the report as one of 23 countries that made "sign...