Letter to the Editor –   In May of 2019 I saw a doctor who referred me to both a doctor to treat gallstones and a doctor to treat kidney stones. Nov 1st 2019 I saw Dr. Carlos Francisco Quesada Ramirez at Hospital National De Geriatria. I was t...

Today, Friday, May 28, only EVENS can circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. Starting Wednesday, May 19 and to May 30, daytime driving is restricted to one day onl...

QCOSTARICA – José Uriel Delgado Corrales, known as Chepito, died this Thursday night, confirmed the Home for the Hogar de Ancianos de Piedades de Santa Ana, in San José, where the man lived. Chepito was 121 years old and the oldest Costa Rica...

QCOSTARICA – While the number of new daily cases continues over 2,000, save for drops on weekends (typically Sundays and Mondays), the greater concern is the high level of hospitalizations, in particular patients requiring an Intensive Care Uni...

Will pharmacies soon have covid-19 drugs on their shelves? After vaccines, drug companies are now in the race to develop a treatment that can be taken at home with a glass of water as soon as symptoms appear. Because although prevention is better tha...

QCOSTARICA – With an investment of ¢70 million by the Instituto de Desarrollo Rural (Inder) – Rural Development Institute,  began the construction of the first 12 new water reservoirs out of a total of 28 that will be located in the can...

QCOSTARICA – The last time we saw the dollar exchange below ¢600 colones we have to back to September 18, when one US dollar was ¢599.86 colones. Today it is common to find it at the threshold of ¢620. Is this a new normal to which we must g...

EXPAT FOCUS – With so much despair in the business community of Costa Rica and all of Latin America since covid, Matt Wilson (Tamarindo), felt a healthy dose of advice would be welcomed. Matt writes, “We have noticed that Costa Rica is th...

QCOSTARICA – Feeling under the weather, have a cough or runny nose, fatigued, weak, nauseous, vomiting, diarrhea, difficulty breathing? Or suspect you may have covid? The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) will now perform antigen tests...

QCOSTARICA – If you’ve lived in Costa Rica for some time, or even a short time, who have seen a newly paved street or repaired road only to be torn up again by workers of the water and sewer utility. And we can bet you have seen that patc...