QCOSTARICA – A member of the board of directors of the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AyA) – water utility – Yolanda Acuña points to the general manager of the institution, Manuel Salas, for providing the ...

QCOSTARICA – Dona Rosa lost everything in her life and surrendered her will to the hands of others. Luck changed one day when she was rescued from a bunker in Plaza Víquez, where she was still living and without being addicted to any drugs. Sh...

QCOSTARICA – Driving the 50-kilometer concrete highway between Cañas-Liberia, inaugurated five years ago and already showing signs of deterioration, is now free of tolls. But that could change soon as the Ministry of Public Works and Transport...

QCOSTARICA – Vaccination against covid-19 will be mandatory for all health officials, announced the medical manager of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), Mario Ruiz Cubillo, during a press conference Friday. “The vaccine actually sa...

QCOSTARICA – A cold push is expected to grip all of Costa Rica this weekend, with wind gusts of up 100 km/h and cooler temperatures. The national weather service, the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN), explained that wind gusts will be at...

QCOSTARICA – The downward trend of new cases continues. With that the number of people in hospital, numbers not seen since July last year. This Friday, February 19, the Ministry of Health reported  289 people occupied a hospital bed due to com...

QCOSTARICA – “We are experiencing the paradoxical situation of reduction in the number of daily cases at the same time that we have an increase in the contagion rate,” are the words of demographer and public health specialist, Luis ...

QCOSTARICA – In the first 44 days of 2021, the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública (MSP) – Ministry of Public Security – reports a 62% decrease in assaults, thefts, and robberies in the central area of ​​San José. For example, ped...

RICO’s TICO BULL – My story started last May, when instead of the usual ¢7,000 to ¢8,000 colones monthly water bill, it was an outrageous ¢34,000 colones and some change. I don’t remember the exact amount. My first complaint got ...

On May 4, 1910, the most destructive earthquake in the history of Costa Rica destroyed the city of Cartago. Such had been the devastation that even today none can be sure how many people died with records ranging from 400 to 700 people, the highest d...