A study shows that both male and females learn differently. It specifies that not necessarily in different schools but in different classes males and females learn differently and specially in mathematics, science and languages.
Salary bonuses of the National Healthcare Systems account for 60% of its total remuneration. Professionals and technicians of middle management account for a 36.9% of payments followed by Healthcare professionals with 30%.
The National Institute of Biodiversity informs that the country has 14,351 species of insects, 820 species of birds, 2,643 of plants, 901 fungi and lichens and 401 mollusks.
Study of 115 years shows that the proliferation of Institutions, a total of 293, makes public spending difficult to control. In 1,900 the country had 39 public entities while it now has 332. Ex Comptroller states that the problem of duplicity between entities has its origins that each entity having its own legal departments.
National Healthcare System’s bonuses and incentives are tied to a tangle of 70 different legal norms which is so complex to understand and should be carefully looked into so to prevent abuses that without doubt has increased the costs to the institution.
Environmentalists criticize the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock whom they say lower the standards of the use of pesticides just to rush their inscriptions.
National Healthcare System which had its birth in 1943 is found to have originated its privileges from a Union Strike of 33 years ago.
The executive evaluates stagger the timetable of entry of Public employees so to relieve the unbearable traffic jams.
Indigenous population in the south, hope to rescue their traditions and native language with the use of technology and have begun to develop a dictionary of the ngobere language.
Legislators come to an agreement to seek out pension schemes that are under budgetary mandate and of which only 10% comes from employee contributions. They shall also tackle the age limits which, today stands at 55 years of age.
The National Institute of Electricity undertakes to adapt accounting standards by 2,017 facilitating the Comptroller’s Office a more comprehensible study and evaluate the Institution’s true financial health.
Of the 81 Municipalities, 38 are now actively working on recycling those materials which are of up for recycling; however there are still 29 Municipalities who haven’t even begun.
Service centres now outnumber those which manufacture reports the Centre for Development Initiatives and they further state that this is due to better infrastructure and qualified employment.
The Board of the National Healthcare System will ask the Ministry of Health to hire specialists in 12 different areas of Medicine from abroad. The College of Physicians and Surgeons sees this as a first step in recognizing that the Institute has finally admitted to the shortage of Specialists which they have been pointing out to.
The Institute of Tourism to revise all salary bonuses which is said to account for 80% of its operating costs.
Week ends with the Central Bank’s reference buying rate of CRC549.74 and selling rate of CRC537.14 to USD1.00