QCOSTARICA – Today, Monday, July 26, vehicles with license plates ending in 1 & 2 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. From 9:00 pm to 5:00 am A...

QCOSTARICA – The number of people in shelters, due to this week’s storm, rose from 1,500 to 3,000 between Saturday and Sunday. According to the omisión Nacional de Emergencias (CNE), numerous families left their homes in flooded areas an...

Update 6:34pm. A thank you to all those who wrote to point on the error and a bigger thank you to those who called to make sure I was Ok. Needed a day off. The original post was an autopost set up days ago prior to the changes. Yes, starting tomorrow...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica President, Carlos Alvarado, in Guanacaste this weekend in celebration of the 197th anniversary of the Annexation of the Nicoya Party, affirmed that vaccination is the main route towards economic reactivation, in the cont...

QCOSTARICA – It was a race against time for Costa Rican surfer, Carlos ‘Cali’ Muñoz, to make it through the Zurqui, to get to the San Jose airport for his flight to the Tokyo Olympics. After hours of anguish due to inclement weather condit...

QCOSTARICA – Covid-19 would have caused the Costa Rican population to lose, between January 29 and June 30 of this year, 60,170 years of life. How is this possible and what does it mean? This variable is called years of life lost and it is one ...

QCOSTARICA – More than 170 thousand people from the Chorotega region appear as direct beneficiaries of the works that the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) has been developing in the last year to improve the availability and s...

QCOSTARICA – The emergency due to the rains that have occurred in much of the country since Thursday, took the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) without conservation contracts and with a tight budget. Given this scenario, that ...

QCOSTARICA – In less than 24 hours some parts of the country received more rain than in a whole month. One area hardest hit by the rains is Turrialba, where more than 450 liters per square meter of rain fell in that area, when there the monthly...

QCOSTARICA – Today, Saturday, July 24, we return to the odds and evens plates that cannot circulate. Fo this day plates ending in ODD numbers (1, 3, 5, 7 & 9) CANNOT circulate. The odds and even measure will continue until August 8. The mea...