Q TECH – Covid-19 resurrected the worldwide sale of desktop and laptop oomputers last year were up by more than 13% worldwide in 2020. The exceptionally high demand for Personal Computers (PCs) in 2020 is a direct consequence of the COVID-19 pa...

QCOSTARICA – Leafcutter ants are ubiquitous in Costa Rica, except for the higher elevations. They are known commonly as zompopas. In some countries they are called zompopos, the masculine version of the word. In fact, they are sterile females, ...

CORRECTION: Tourists arriving up to November 30, 2020 and not October 31, 2020 have their stay automatically extended to March 02, 2021. QCOSTARICA – A note from our friends at Outlier Legal Services let us know they have recently spoken with I...

QCOSTARICA – 50% of the tax revenue collected by the Ministry of Finance is used to pay the salaries of public employees, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Costa Rica is the country that invests the ...

QCOSTARICA – Agents from the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) stationed at the Interpol-San José National Central Office detained, this Friday, a 51-year-old Colombian man who was wanted by the United States for drug trafficking. The...

QCOSTARICA – Between the different hospitals of the Caja, an average of 20 land transfers and at least one air transfer of patients with covid-19 are made daily. Carrying out these transports, either by road or air, to ensure a bed for critical...

How a new generation of global drug lords emerged at the end of the 1970s, in want of both money and power,  changed the face of politics as their influence and control expanded. Drug lords, wealth and power – episode two of this three-part series...

Q24N – The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, reported on his Twitter account that he tested positive for COVID-19. AMLO said that he is already under medical treatment and at the moment he only has mild symptoms. He added that...

TODAY VENEZUELA – On the streets of Venezuela, dollar bills that have been punctured, erased, stained, scratched, discolored, or burned are bought for half their value. This is the new business emerging in the country due to the impossibility of ex...

You may not know it, but you have an army of microbes living inside of you that are essential for fighting off threats, including the virus that causes COVID-19. In the past two decades scientists have learned our bodies are home to more bacterial ce...