QCOSTARICA – Legislators decided to file away a bill that sought a 25% tax on lottery prizes greater than ¢225,000 colones, a proposal from the current government. This Tuesday the Committee on Legal Affairs decided unanimously not to proceed ...

QCOSTARICA – The presidential candidate of the Partido Progreso Social Democrático (PPSD), Rodrigo Chaves, issued a warning to the Costa Rican Judiciary on Tuesday after hearing “rumors” that the headquarters of his party and his h...

Q24N (EFE) El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly suspended on  Tuesday (March 22) the collection of the Value Added Tax (VAT) – which taxes 13% on final consumption – on fuels for 15 days, this as a measure to face the inflation that ...

RICO’s COVID DIGEST – The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) reports applying 10,018,261 doses of the vaccine against covid-19. Data from the CCSS, released on its website this Tuesday afternoon and updated as of Monday, March 21,...

QCOSTARICA – Three World Cup qualifiers remain. Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are the top three nations in the standings. Panama is next, with Costa Rica behind them for an intercontinental playoff spot, while Jamaica, El Salvador and Honduras ar...

Q MAGAZINE – Nina Dobrev is living her best beach life while on a vacation in Costa Rica with her boyfriend Shaun White and has been wearing the most adorable one-piece swimsuits. In a new Instagram post, the 33-year-old Vampire Diaries star sh...

QCOSTARICA – The dry conditions in several regions of the country, plus the strong winds, have caused a large number of fires in the national vegetation. Authorities of the Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación (Sinac) – National Sy...

QCOSTARICA – Legislators approved on Monday, in first debate, with 41 votes in favor, a bill that requires a set of structural and legal operation requirements for the operation of “food trucks”. Among other things, the bill makes i...

QCOSTARICA – Every year, the educational community commemorates on March 20th, the Anniversary of the Battle of Santa Rosa in memory of the victory and courage of Costa Ricans for the defense of national sovereignty. On Sunday, as is tradition,...

QCOSTARICA – The Fiscalía Anticorrupción  (Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office) requested to extend the preventive detention against businessmen Carlos Cerdas and Mélida Solís, owners of MECO and H. Solís respectively, for up to six...