QCOSTARICA – Costa Rican families breathed a little more normality this Mother’s Day, Sunday, August 15, when compared to the celebration of 2020. With fewer sanitary restrictions, circulation through the center of San José was the usual...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica’s transportation system is the most polluting in Central America as a result of dependence on oil, poor public transportation, and the disorderly expansion of the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM). Vehicles are respo...

QCOSTARICA – For today, Tuesday, August 17, vehicles with plates ending in 3 & 4 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 ...

QCOSTARICA – The Municipality of San José would have approved an “irregular contract” for ¢624 million (a little over US$1 million dollars) to acquire Microsoft software licenses (Open Value) through an “erroneous” tender in 2013. Tha...

QCOSTARICA – After eight months of being stalled – frozen actually – like other economic revival projects, the time for the medical cannabis and hemp industry has come. This Tuesday (tomorrow) the initiative will start its final roa...

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...