Costa Rica News
Wed, 04 Aug 2021 06:05:12 +0000Today’s Vehicle Restriction August 4: Plates ending in “5 & 6” CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – For today, Wednesday, August 4, vehicles with license 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. From 9:00 pm to 5...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 18:20:47 +0000Half of the Costa Rican population already has at least one dose of the vaccine against covid-19
QCOSTARICA – 49.8% of the population in Costa Rica eligible to be vaccinated have already at least one dose of the vaccine against covid-19 and 16.48% have already both doses. Data from the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) released th...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 18:06:32 +0000Cabletica’s purchase of Telefonica Costa Rica approved
QCOSTARICA – Liberty Latin America, the parent company of Cabletica and Telefónica de España, announced that they received the approval of the Costa Rican Government to complete the sale of Telefónica Costa Rica, operator of the Movistar bra...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:44:33 +0000Costa Rica’s Constitutional Court To Decide Legality of Vehicular Restrictions
QCOSTARICA – Regardless of the fact that vaccination would already allow greater commercial openness and fewer vehicle restrictions, President Carlos Alvarado so far refuses to make any measure more flexible, given the danger that Covid-19 infe...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:12:41 +0000Tico accused of defrauding the Lebanese community of US$5 million with an alleged “investment” plan
QCOSTARICA – A Cartago lawyer named Nassar Güell is accused of having defrauded the Lebanese community in Costa Rica with an alleged investment plan, with which he fraudulently obtained around US$5 million. In total, the Fiscalía Adjunta de F...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 13:56:51 +0000Did you get vaccinated with Pfizer?
QCOSTARICA – A third dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine can “strongly” boost protection against the delta variant, beyond the protection provided by the two standard doses. This is suggested by new data released by Pfize...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:25:36 +0000Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, no expiration date
Q REPORTS – It was Rosario Murillo, wife and vice president of Daniel Ortega, who designed the master plan that would allow the long-lived couple to stay five more years in power. Since 2007, when Ortega returned to power after the revolution h...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:40:00 +0000U.S. warns “extreme” caution when investing in Nicaragua
TODAY NICARAGUA – The U.S State Department advised international investors that they “should be extremely cautious” when investing in Nicaragua, “under the authoritarian government of President Daniel Ortega” and Rosario Murillo. In a repor...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:32:00 +0000FSLN ratifies the Ortega as presidential candidate
TODAY NICARAGUA – The Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) – Sandinista Front – ratified in a virtual Congress Daniel Ortega for president and his wife Rosario Murillo as vice-president to participate in the November 7 elections, ma...
Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:29:51 +0000Today’s Vehicle Restriction August 3: Plates ending in “3 & 4” CANNOT circulate
QCOSTARICA – For today, Tuesday, August 3, 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 5:0...