QCOSTARICA – For today, Monday, September 6, 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...

QREPORTS – During the pandemic, the pejorative term “snake-oil salesman” has been bandied about a lot. It’s been used, perhaps with a tinge of 1980s nostalgia, to describe convicted fraudster and serial opportunist Jim Bakker, whose collo...

QCOSTARICA – For today, Sunday, September 5, there are NO DAYTIME vehicle restrictions. This is the first weekend of relaxed measures. But please remember, the no restrictions apply only during the day, between 5:00 am and 10:00 pm. The nightti...

QCOSTARICA – The Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of Finance), Costa Rica’s version of the IRS, closed at 9:33 am Friday, the headquarters of the Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC) in Barrio Tournón, San José, due to a tax dispute. ...

QCOSTARICA – Users of BAC San José online should be careful with the emails they supposedly receive from the bank, given that the latest strategy for scammers is to use a fake website to collect personal data from customers. Through an email, ...

QCOSTARICA – While President Carlos Alvarado promotes the electric train project that he could not get off the ground before his mandate runs out in 5 months, though promises to have ready to go for the next government, there is a more pressing...

Q24N – Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso said on Wednesday that his plane would go on sale and the money raised will be used to replenish the state budget as the country struggles with the COVID-19 economic repercussions. “The sale of ...

Q24N – Delegations from the Venezuelan government and opposition resumed talks in Mexico City on Friday, with the two sides hoping to chart a joint path forward out of the country’s ongoing political crisis. Neither Venezuelan President N...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a dramatic demonstration of evolution in action. Evolutionary theory explains much of what has already happened, predicts what will happen in the future and suggests which management strategies are likely to be the most effec...

QCOSTARICA – For today, Saturday, September 4, there are NO DAYTIME vehicle restrictions. This is the first weekend of relaxed measures. But please remember, the no restrictions apply only during the day, between 5:00 am and 10:00 pm. The night...