Costa Rica News
Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:22:28 +0000Today’s Vehicle Restriction July 27: 3 & 4 CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – Today, Tuesday, July 27, vehicles with license 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. From 9:00 pm to 5:00 am ...
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:05:12 +0000Today’s Vehicle Restriction July 26: 1 & 2 CANNOT circulate
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...
Mon, 26 Jul 2021 06:53:15 +0000Number of victims of week’s storm rises to 3,000
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...
Sun, 25 Jul 2021 06:02:36 +0000Today’s Vehicle Restriction July 25: EVENS CANNOT circulate
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...
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:41:46 +0000Carlos Alvarado foresees the lifting of sanitary restrictions for the last quarter
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...
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:17:39 +0000Costa Rican surfer in race against time to Tokyo
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...
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:47:26 +0000Covid-19 robbed Costa Rican population 60,170 years of life between the end of January and June
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 ...
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:31:29 +0000More than 170,000 will benefit from projects for access to drinking water in Guanacaste
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...
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 13:18:15 +0000MOPT uses its own equipment to attend to roads affected by rain
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 ...
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 12:53:45 +0000Rains and Floods leave mark of their fury in Costa Rica (Photos)
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...