Doctor Franklin Chang’s Laboratory in Liberia, supports national scientists since 2006

Doctor Franklin Chang’s Laboratory in Liberia, Guanacaste has become a nursery for scientists. Over 3,000 students from Schools and Colleges have visited since its opening in 2006. Of those, over 70 students from Universities and Technical Colleges have done internships. The Ad Astra Rocket Laboratories, a creation of Dr. Chang’s, investigates aerospace technologies and renewable energies. Dr. Chang is a Costa Rican born in 1950, a mechanical engineer, physicist and former NASA astronaut who retired in 2005. He shares a record of seven Space Shuttle missions and performed three...

Difficulties on choosing Central Bank´s board

Legislators put to a vote two Executive designated names to fill the membership of the Central Bank’s Board and both fail to pass, leaving The Central Bank without the authority to meet without a needed quorum. Central Bank’s President anticipating the outcome, states that the business of the day has nothing pending and sees conditions that the year will end with an inflation rate of 3%. An emergency meeting of a full Government Council is at present undergoing with an unlimited...

Initiative to ban plastic bags in commerce

A proposed Bill which bans the use of plastic bags by all commerce has passed through the Environmental Commission of Congress and heads to full Congressional approval. The proposed Bill provides a 60 month period to its full implementation. Read more about this at the following link:...