QCOSTARICA – The name of Luis Ángel Milanés Tamayo-Coto is perhaps the second most recognized name in the ex-pat community of two decades ago, many of whom invested millions of dollars with the man and his financial company, Savings Unlimited...

QCOSTARICA – In two years of the pandemic, the private sector has carried out some two million tests carried out for the detection of Covid-19. The circulation of the Ómicron variant triggered the number of Covid-19 tests in the private sector...

QCOSTARICA – Absent from work with leave since December, legislator Ivonne Acuña, taxpayers ¢3.2 million colones for fuel in a single day, prompting the Executive Directorate of Legislative Assembly to carry out an investigation. The money co...

QCOSTARICA – The Costa Rican Oil Refinery that refines nothing, RECOPE, requested on Friday a new increase in fuel prices. According to the request made to the regulating authority, the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP), ...

QCOSTARICA – It may not be much to alleviate the pocketbooks, but it is something in the face of increasing fuel costs in Costa Rica. On Thursday, legislators approved a motion in the Legislative Plenary to accelerate the processing of the bill...

QCOSTARICA – The owner of the Hotel La Mansión, Harry Bodaan, accused of the femicide of anesthesiologist María Luisa Cedeño in July 2020, was imposed preventive detention (jail), at least until April 22, by order of the Quepos Criminal Cour...

QCOSTARICA – An American man, identified publicly only by his last name, Mcpherson, was arrested by the immigration police this Wednesday in Carara, near Playa Jacó, on an arrest warrant issued by the United States. According to authorities, M...

QCOSTARICA – A brothel, managed by woman, an alleged pimp, was posing as a massage parlor in a residence in San Sebastián de San José, reported the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ). In a raid of the house Wednesday afternoon, the ad...

QCOSTARICA – Authorities continue to evaluate measures to combat the phenomenon of ‘quiebraventanas’ (smash car windows) in the capital. One of the alternatives is to promote more fluid vehicular traffic, mainly on the Circunvalación, whic...

QCOSTARICA – In less than a month, some 300 families who did not want to pay rent for their homes or tenement houses in the area of La Carpio, were evicted on Wednesday morning by the Municipal Police of San Jose. Marcelo Solano, director of th...