Today, Wednesday, June 23, plates ending in 5 & 6 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. On Saturday, June 26, and then until Sunday, July 11, we go bac...

QCOSTARICA – For the first time in two months, less than 800 new cases of covid-19 in a single day were registered on June 21. The week begins with 797 infections detected in the last 24 hours. The last time a figure lower than that was recorde...

QCOSTARICA – The value of Costa Rica exports increased by 23% in the first five months of the year, being the highest growth in the last five years. Understandable because there is a rebound effect after the Covid-19 pandemic a year ago, even s...

QCOSTARICA – Emilia Navas will not be removed from her position as attorney general, after calls for her to step down due to her removing herself in high profile cases, the latest in the “caso Cochinilla”, that prompted a judicial r...

EXPAT FOCUS (MND) Of course it was no surprise that readers of Mexico News Daily voted Mexico as the No. 1 expat destination in a recent poll. We can probably safely assume that most already live here, want to, or are snowbirds. Fully 60% ranked Mexi...

QCOSTARICA – The pandemic caused by Covid-19 fuels the strategy of positioning Costa Rica as a world destination to develop wellness tourism, since travelers will be in search of countries that project a healthy and relaxing lifestyle. So concl...

QCOSTARICA – What had been a good tool as a payment mechanism for sellers and businesses, the Ministry of Finance (Treasury) has in its sights the Sinpe Móvil service, warning that it could be used to evade the payment of taxes. “Sinpe M...

QCOSTARICA – The United States presented on Monday a plan to share 55 million doses of coronavirus vaccines worldwide, with approximately 75% of the doses allocated to Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa. More than 40 million doses...

Today, Tuesday, June 22, plates ending in 3 & 4 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. On Saturday, June 26, and then until Sunday, July 11, we go back ...

QCOSTARICA – President Carlos Alvarado said he has all the confidence in his Minister of Public Works and Transport (MOPT, Rodolfo Méndez Mata, and will not request his resignation. “If someone can do the public work and contribute so th...