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Costa Rica and China sign trade
agreement
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By A.M. Costa Rica staff
The governments of Costa Rica and the People's Republic of China signed a document called Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation: Strip and Road Initiative. The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held on May 14 and15, 2017 in Beijing, and drew 29 foreign heads of state and government and representatives from more than 130 countries and 70 international organizations. The forum will be a platform for working out action plans for the implementation of the initiative in the areas of infrastructure, energy and resources, production capacity, trade and investment and identification of major projects. It is also intended to be an opportunity for the signing of cooperation agreements with countries and international organizations in the areas of financial cooperation mechanism, a cooperation platform for science, technology and environmental protection, and enhanced exchanges and training of talent and financing agreements for backing projects. The commercial relations are mainly in economy, society, environment and culture. Vice President Epsy Campbell said that the document signed between Costa Rica and China is the result of a trust which has been strengthened since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in June 2007 and which has contributed to deepening political, economic, and commercial ties. "Due to the complementary [relationship] between our countries, we underline the importance of this document in terms of financing, infrastructure, trade and person-to-person approaches. We hope that the People's Republic of China will continue making long-term investments and high added value in our country,” said Campbell during a ceremony. "We know each other much better today than 11 years ago, and that knowledge solidifies the relationship. Costa Rica has a model of sustainable development that can be perfectly complemented with Chinese bilateral cooperation and the Chinese relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean, and we are sure that it will be enhanced with the signing of this memorandum," she added. The ambassador of China in Costa Rica, Tang Heng, celebrated the deepening of relations between the countries. "At the start of the second decade of bilateral relations, the signing of this memorandum is equivalent to installing a new powerful engine, with a powerful and lasting force to the cooperation between both countries," said Tang. "We wanted to take advantage of the signing of the memorandum of understanding as a new starting point, in order to strengthen the coordination and communication of policies and the coupling of development strategies, expand trade, and deepen cooperation in various areas such as infrastructure, agriculture, education, technology and environmental protection," added the ambassador.
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 A.M. Costa
Rica wire services
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The ambassador of China in Costa
Rica, Tang Heng, and Vice President Epsy
Campbell, celebrated the deepening of
relations between the countries.
According to ministry information, the agreements have exceeded a volume of $5 billion in merchandise trade between China and the countries along the maritime and land trade routes. The accumulated investment in these countries has already surpassed $70 billion, with an average annual growth of 7.2 percent. In addition, Chinese companies have established 82 zones of economic and commercial cooperation, with a total investment of $28.9 billion, creating around 244,000 local jobs in signatory nations. Through this agreement, Costa Rica and China will cooperate with their main development strategies, planning and policies, in connectivity exchanges of roads, railways, bridges, civil aviation, ports, energy and telecommunications, and in the expansion of investment, trade and industrial cooperation. In addition, they will encourage their companies to build industrial parks and zones of economic and commercial cooperation, to financial institutions to provide support and services for the generation of production capacity, investment and commercial exchange, and they will also develop a network of sister cities to achieve cooperation agreements in education, culture, health, tourism, sports, and public welfare. Cooperation will be achieved through high-level visits as well as governmental and non-governmental exchange mechanisms. All this through a multilevel information platform in various fields and channels, with the aim of increasing transparency and encouraging the participation of people from different sectors of society. The cooperation agreement will remain in force for three years and will be extended automatically for subsequent periods of three years.
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Government
presents plan to increase
employment
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By A.M. Costa Rica staff The Ministry of Economic Coordination, Edna Camacho, presented government plans for the generation of new types of work for young people. "To tackle unemployment, which strongly affects young people between 15 and 25 years old, and stimulate inclusive economic growth, the government is committed to promoting policies that improve skills and facilitate access to high-productivity and high-productivity employment opportunities and better salaries," declared Camacho. According to this plan, the strategy is that young people will have a better job profile because they know more English or having knowledge in two professions. The government will improve the platform for those seeking employment and promote work from home, such as teleworking. The ministry published a list of technical guides for companies that want to implement telework. Steven Nuñez of the Ministry of Labor, said: "We are prioritizing different initiatives that promote the employment of Costa Ricans. These include those that have to do with the improvement of the occupational profile of people through training in technical careers." The plan also seeks to improve the teaching of English in schools so that graduates have more job opportunities in companies where bilingual education is a basic requirement. The minister of Public Education, Edgar Mora Altamirano, said that "we are moving forward in concrete actions to achieve a historic transformation in the teaching of the English language as an indispensable tool for educational success and employment, and in this way promote economic reactivation. " As part of this plan, the National Learning Institute will teach the English language to 35,000 people in the next four years. This represents an increase of 90 percent compared to the previous period. In addition, proof of language proficiency, known as BELT and TOEIC tests, will be certified. The System for the Promotion of Employment is an online platform for job search created by the ministry. Also included is an improvement in agricultural education, taking advantage of new technologies that until a few years ago were beyond the reach of schools, the government said.
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 A.M. Costa
Rica wire services
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The ministry published a
list of technical guides for companies that
want to implement telework.
"The adoption
of precision agriculture introduces our
students to the modern agricultural world,
thanks to which we achieve: the optimization
of the amount of agrochemicals applied to
soils and crops, the reduction of the costs of
production and of the environmental pollution,
and the improvement of the quality of the
harvests," said Mora.
A new alliance between the National Learning Institute, the Chamber of Industries, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Business Alliance for Development, has been formed with the purpose of training workers in two professions. This is a pilot plan that will be developed with 15 participating companies, to be later replicated in other business chambers. The dual of professions program would focus on areas such as food and beverage, energy efficiency, straightening and painting, among others, so that through this project this a dual employment mechanism will be strengthened, to raise the knowledge of young people and them more hope of finding work. According to this plan, the strategy is that young people have a better job profile, knowing more English, or having knowledge in two professions. And on the side of the government, improve the platform to seek employment and promote work from home. |
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Costa Rica calls on
international
community for solution to Nicaraguan crisis |
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By A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Costa Rican ambassador to
the United Nations, Rodrigo Alberto Carazo,
called on the international community to find
a solution to the dramatic crisis facing
Nicaragua.
The U.N. Security Council discussed the situation in Nicaragua Tuesday. The 15 members of the council took part and heard speeches by Chief of Staff Gonzalo Koncke and Félix Maradiaga, a representative of Nicaraguan civil society. Carazo said that the situation facing Nicaragua is a priority issue not only for that country but for all of Central America. "Everything that happens in this small interconnected geographical area affects us directly or indirectly and, in the same way, the entire Central American area. Costa Rica cannot, or will it, be indifferent to the suffering and uncertainty of those whom we consider our brothers," said Carazo. Since April of this year, when the conflict began, the violence and repression that has claimed more than 400 lives has escalated and has included a wave of serious violations of human rights, according to the report of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Costa Rican government has been against extrajudicial executions, disappearances of people, obstruction of access to medical care, arbitrary or illegal detentions of a general nature, ill-treatment and cases of torture and sexual violence in detention centers. "This has led to the systematic erosion of the human rights of the Nicaraguan people, as well as selective repression and intimidation against demonstrators and their families, students, journalists, social leaders, human rights defenders and mediators," added Carazo.
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 A.M. Costa
Rica wire services
Since April of this year,
when the conflict began, the violence and
repression that has claimed more than 400
lives, according to U.N.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the solution to the crisis must be through dialogue. Therefore, Carazo asked the government of Nicaragua to restore the conditions necessary for a dialogue between the parties. In addition, the ministry asked the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union and the international community in general to support a solution of the crisis in Nicaragua. "Costa Rica will continue to speak out in defense of a population subject to arbitrary actions that entail a breach of the obligations stipulated in the different human rights agreements, and until the reason, the good judgment and the unrestricted respect for human rights return to Nicaragua,” said a ministry's statement. |
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Costa Rica recorded 79 bone marrow
transplants in 2017
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By A.M. Costa Rica staff
In 2017 seventy-nine bone marrow transplants were performed on patients with malignant blood and marrow diseases, according to the Institutional Donation and Transplant Program. The treatments represented an investment of 2.8 billion colones equivalent to almost $50 million. The three medical centers that perform this procedure are: the San Juan de Dios Hospital with 44, Hospital Mexico with 27 and the National Children's Hospital with nine. "Bone marrow transplantation is the treatment that is generally chosen for younger people who have a compatible donor, such as a sibling. The age limit depends to a large extent on the patient's condition and the type of transplant required,"said the report. "The possibilities of healing of the patients are variable, depends on the type of disease and transplant, as well as the particular situation of each person,” said Maria Rodriguez, director of Children's Hospital. "The transplant involves rebuilding the bone marrow with healthy stem cells from a donor and could be the only successful treatment option, for example, for people with severe aplastic anemia," added Rodriguez. "This treatment is a safe option that is being done more and more frequently," Rodriguez added. |
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Costa Rica wire services photo
The treatments represented an investment of 2.8 billion colones equivalent to almost $50 million. The
doctor explained that two types of
transplant are performed: the autologous
or auto-transplant in which cells are
taken from the same patient and the
allogeneic, in which the cells come from a
fully or partially compatible donor with
or without kinship with the patient. Of
the total transplants performed in 2017,
56 were autologous and 23 were allogeneic.
Social Security only works with family donors since there is no national bone marrow donor bank.
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Electronic invoices at work |
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By A.M.
Costa Rica staff |
 A.M. Costa Rica wire
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The system continues to
operate regularly although there was a delay in
responding to requests from new users Saturday.
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In this first stage, in addition to the companies with the cedula completed in 1, 2 and 3, the independent professionals must also register if they are in the following activities: health, financial, accounting, administrative, legal, engineering, architecture, computer science, meteorologists , chemists, geologists, geographers, biologists, professors, professionals in food technology, advertising services, librarianship services, occupational health professionals, special education teachers, services in industrial and mechanical maintenance consulting, technical advice in construction and civil engineering. |
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Interpol captures drug
trafficking suspect
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By A.M. Costa Rica staff
Officials report that a man with an international arrest warrant for drug trafficking was captured Wednesday while leaving a restaurant in La Sabana in San José. According to the police report, agents of Interpol Costa Rica and the Intelligence Unit of the Judicial Investigation Agency have been involved in an investigation and follow-up for almost four months. The subject was identified as a Nicaraguan named Pereira, 35, who is wanted by police authorities of the United States and who was living in Costa Rica. The arrest was made by Interpol agents at 3:30 p.m. when Pereira and two other men went out to eat at the restaurant. All three were arrested, but the names of the other men were not published on the police report The Judicial Investigating Organization said that the subject had a history in the country for drug trafficking. The case involves an organization that sends cocaine to the United States and has links to the arms trade. The wanted suspect and the two other men were sent to judicial offices for processing and further investigation and extradition to the United States where the investigations and accusations against the suspect will continue. |
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The case
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