QCOSTARICA – For today, Monday, August 16, vehicles with plates ending in 1 & 2 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 10:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. From 10:00 pm to 5:00 am A...

QCOSTARICA – There is evidence that shows that, in the week of August 15, Mother’s Day, Costa Ricans spend 11% more on each purchase. In 2020, for example, the population spent an average of ¢8,485 on each purchase on products from the m...

QCOSTARICA – For today, Sunday, August 15 (Mother’s Day in Costa Rica) vehicles with “EVEN” plates ending CANNOT circulate.   The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 10:00 pm, save for those under the w...

QCOSTARICA – More and more journalists, social leaders, even presidential candidates and average Nicaraguans, are arriving in Costa Rica fleeing the repression of the regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo. The situation has led ...

TODAY NICARAGUA – Police raided the La Prensa newspaper on Friday amid a wave of arrests of critics and rivals of president and candidate for re-election, Daniel Ortega, less than three months before the elections.   According to a report from...

QCOSTARICA – In order to save the Invalidez, Vejez y Muerte (IVM) – Disability, Old Age and Death – pension fund, the board of directors of the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) eliminated early retirement for men. The meas...

QCOSTARICA – Transit remained fluid and cargo movement through Costa Rican customs without problems, as the Fuerza Publica (National Police) on Thursday moved a police contingent to the Paso Canoas border with Panama, with the aim of avoiding p...

QCOSTARICA – For today, Saturday, August 14 vehicles with “ODD” plates ending CANNOT circulate.   The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 10:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. From 10:00 pm...

QCOSTARICA – Avianca airline announced on Thursday, August 12, the opening of six new direct routes from Costa Rica, connecting San José with Cali, Medellín, Los Angeles, New York, Managua, and Mexico. The Colombian flag airline reported the ...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica received a total of 766,303 tourists arrivals by air, between August 2020, when it reopened its borders, after almost five months of closure due to the pandemic of covid-19, and July of this year. That number represents ...