QCOSTARICA – After the world struggled for months to find a vaccine against COVID-19, one of the looming discussions is whether an employer can force their employees to get vaccinated against the SARS-COV-2 virus. For the moment the answer is n...

Government contradictions are astonishing. Legislators question the lack of structural reforms in the proposal to go to the International Monetary Fund – IMF – (FMI in Spanish) as the government bets on more foreign debt and taxes.

QCOSTARICA – The teachers’ demand to be vaccinated against covid-19 before returning to the classroom did not echo in the halls of the Ministry of Education or in the Ministry of Health. Guiselle Cruz, Minister of Education, was clear on ...

QCOSTARICA – The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS)reported Friday that 9,751 people had already received the first dose of the covid-19 vaccine. 83% were applied to officials of hospitals and clinics of the CCSS, 9.9% to seniors residi...

QCOSTARICA – The Municipality of Garabito reversed Friday afternoon in its intention to extend until 6 pm the opening hours of the canton’s beaches such as Playa Jacó, Hermosa and Herradura, among others. Patricio Morera Víquez, executi...

QCOSTARICA – KLM Royal Dutch Airlines resumed its direct flights from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to the Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR), in Liberia, this week. The Tuesday night arrival was the first in a series of returning ...

QCOSTARICA – The Continuous Employment Survey (ECE) of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) for the three months of September-October-November 2020 shows that the country has recovered 183,274 jobs from the most critical mom...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica paid Pfizer US$36 million dollars for the three million doses of covid-19 vaccines, that is, US$12 each. The information was provided Wednesday afternoon by the Government after Pfizer authorized the disclosure. The conf...

QCOSTARICA – In recent weeks a rumor spread on WhatsApp that drivers who do not have their reflective vest in the glove compartment were going to be fined. While it is recommended that a reflective vest be handy, it is not required to be in the...

QCOSTARICA – Though typical for the period between Christmas and the first week to ten days of January for temperatures to dip below normal, this dry season in the Central Valley, as well as in Guanacaste and the Central Pacific, temperatures a...