QCOSTARICA – A “temporary problem” in the system of payment and verification of departure taxes at land borders generated a queue of more than 100 people at the Peñas Blancas immigration post. The problem was with the Banco de Cost...

QCOSTARICA – Those who have had contact with a person with confirmed cases of covid-19, but do not present symptoms and have all the vaccines, are included in one of the three groups of people who do not need to isolate or apply for disability,...

QCOSTARICA – 85 people have died in the last seven days related to the covid-19 virus; a figure that is 73.5% higher than that of the previous week, when 49 patients died from causes related to this disease, reported the Ministry of Health. 71....

QCOSTARICA – At the stroke of midnight tonight, well at 12:01 am Wednesday, to be exact, fuel prices in Costa Rica will increase. How, much you say? The answer depends on the type of fuel, ie regular or super gasoline, diesel, LPG, etc, when th...

QCOSTARICA – The political campaigns to elect the president and legislators closed last Sunday, and by Thursday, all candidates and their parties must stop all politicking, including ralliers, the publication of polls, and paid advertising, amo...

QCOSTARICA – The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) applied for the first time the new law on strikes, in force since January 2020, with the reduction of ¢29.3 million to 1,152 workers who participated in three strikes during 2021. Acc...

Q24n – The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) welcomed the call by the World Health Organization (WHO), for travel restrictions to be lifted or eased. And it is that given the increase in Covid-19 cases in many countries due to the Omicron vari...

QCOSTARICA – The ¢20,000 and ¢50,000 banknotes printed on cotton substrate will go out of circulation as of today, February 1, 2022. However, they do not lose their monetary value, they can be exchanged or deposited at banks across the countr...

QCOSTARICA – The reference price of the dollar reached its maximum peak during the last 40 years, with the sell being quoted at ¢646.90, according to data from the Banco Central de Costa Rica (BCCR) – Central Bank of Costa Rica. From Jan...

QCOSTARICA – An unpaid water bill caused a delay in the flights at the Juan Santamaría airport in Alajuela, aka the San Jose airport, this Monday afternoon, when aircraft were leaving 10 minutes apart, instead of one or two, as is the case und...