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Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:33:26 +0000
Immigration reinforces staff at airports for Easter
QCOSTARICA – Given the expected volume of passenger arrivals and departures during the Semana Santa holiday, and with the aim to avoid the constant bottlenecks at immigration checkpoints, Costa Rica’s immigration service announced it will...

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:21:25 +0000
Juan Santamaría Airport will close 5 hours Wednesday and Thursday
QCOSTARICA – The Juan Santamaría (San Jose) International Airport will close on Wednesday (April 13) and Thursday (April 14) the takeoff and landing strip for five hours to remove the DHL plane that crashed last Thursday. The closures will tak...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:36:13 +0000
Epsy Campbell’s daugther: It is civic duty to yell ‘stalker’ at Chaves
QCOSTARICA- Tanisha Swaby, daughter of Vice President Epsy Campbell, has given something to talk about on her Twitter account after posting several messages against president-elect Rodrigo Chaves. She commented on a publication related to the shouts ...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:18:29 +0000
Coast Guard and Tourist Police will keep an eye on vacationers during Semana Santa
QCOSTARICA – This week is Semana Santa. The annual holiday officially kicked of yesterday, Sunday, April 10, and will continue to Saturday, April 16. However, as traffic on the routes out of the Central Valley indicates, the holiday week began ...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:14:02 +0000
New increase! Recope requests increase of up to ¢59
QCOSTARICA – Tighten the belt a little more as there is a new increase in fuel prices around the corner. On Friday (April 8), the Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (RECOPE) – the Costa Rican refinery that refines nothing, requested a ...

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 12:08:18 +0000
DHL to investigate Costa Rica cargo plane crash
QCOSTARICA – DHL, the German logistics company, said on Thursday an investigation will be carried out on the cause of the incident that resulted in the B757-200F veering off the runway and breaking in half on landing, after declaring an emergen...

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:41:13 +0000
Poás volcano: explosive eruption came without warning
QCOSTARICA – An eruption occurred Wednesday (April 6) morning at 2:42 am local time from the volcano’s crater northern area. The event lasted about 3 minutes and generated a steam plume that rose 500 meters (1,640 feet) from the crater wh...

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:23:12 +0000
Catholic Bishops President-elect a document on the 7 challenges that society must face
QCOSTARICA (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishops of Costa Rica have sent a letter to the President-elect, Rodrigo Chaves Robles, who won the run-off election on Sunday, April 3 with 52.89% of the votes. In the letter, the Bishops express their congratu...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 22:40:32 +0000
Cargo plane crashed at Juan Santamaría (San Jose) Airport
QCOSTARICA – “Mayday, mayday, mayday, we have problems with the left hydraulic system. We have two souls on board. We have two and half hours of fuel. We are going to prepare our aircraft to be able to make an emergency landing,” said t...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:58:50 +0000
Electric cars will have tax exemptions for 12 more years
QCOSTARICA – Legislators approved on Wednesday, in first debate, the Incentivos al Transporte Verde (Green Transportation Incentives) bill, which extends the tax exemptions for electric cars until the year 2034. The plan promoted by Partido Lib...



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