QCOSTARICA – For today, Saturday, September 11, 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 nigh...

QCOSTARICA – The Government on Thursday changed its bill for the collection of a 25% tax on lottery prizes and, in this new version, it intends to extend the taxation arm on illegal lotteries. The new text establishes that the tax would apply t...

QCOSTARICA –  In the worst of the rainy season, drivers have to be even more vigilant of the crop of new potholes that have gone unpatched and uncut weeds that in some cases are above the roof of cars. This is not new. It occurs every rainy se...

QCOSTARICA – The second week of September started with 4,580,610 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine applied since December 23, 2020, and within these, 1,509,014 people (29.23% of the total population) in Costa Rica already have both doses ap...

QCOSTARICA – Thursday morning, in an act full of enthusiasm, Costa Rica’s First Lady, Claudia Dobles, shared details of the progress towards a great project that will allow thousands of children in Costa Rica to receive the health care th...

QCOSTARICA – Within the framework of the B2B Forum of the ‘Essential Costa Rica’ country brand, which took place (virtually) this September 2, it was announced that next year the country will have a biometric passport, which means p...

QCOSTARICA – For today, Friday, September 10, vehicles with plates ending in 9 & 0 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...

QCOSTARICA – This is not a joke. The shelves of some shops and supermarkets begin to show the lack of product because the orders are not being fulfilled. According to the Diario Extra, the newspaper that bills itself as the most circulated in t...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica registered the lowest inflation and El Salvador the highest in the Central American region, during the first seven months of the year. Between January and July, the indicator rose just 0.55% in Costa Rica, while the inte...

QCOSTARICA – In December, Costa Ricans expected the dollar exchange rate to increase only 0.44% in a whole year. But in August, the expectations were very different. The estimate was that the price of the U.S. dollar against the Costa Rica dolo...