QCOSTARICA – Achieving balanced participation and representation between men and women in positions of power and decision-making will take Costa Rica 91 years, in 2113, according to its own analysis by La Data Cuenta, based on the Global Gender...

QCOSTARICA – More than 85% in Costa Rica, aged five and older, have already received at least one dose against Covid-19, according to the records of the Caja’s Integrated Vaccine System as of Monday, April 11, 2022. In total there are 4,3...

QCOSTARICA – The intertropical convergence zone will cause the week to start with weak trade winds. This condition will generate rain and a thunderstorm in some areas of the country. Gabriela Chinchilla, a specialist from the national weather s...

QCOSTARICA – The president of the Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (RECOPE) – the Costa Rican Oil Refinery, Alejandro Muñoz is aware that the role of the state institution has been exhausted and assures that there is no point in mai...

TODAY COSTA RICA – For decades, Hotel Don Carlos has been one of the great cultural treasures of Downtown San José, Costa Rica. Located in historic Barrio Amon, this boutique hotel was overflowing with Costa Rican art; paintings, statues, stai...

QCR BLOGS – Here is another one from 2015, speaking about the unfair Government subsidy to the Rice Farmers that Chaves says that he will now suspend and reduce the domestic price of Costa Rica rice: Many of you will have either read, or heard ...

QCOSTARICA – A 50-year-old tourist enjoying the sea at Chiquita beach, in Talamanca, Limón, was swept away by the current. According to the Cruz Roja (Red Cross), the incident occurred on Thursday, April 14, minutes after 2 pm. Tatiana Díaz, ...

QCOSTARICA – Renowned action hero Keanu Reeves visited Costa Rica for almost two weeks, arriving on April 1 and leaving the country on Wednesday, April 13, as confirmed by the since he entered the country last Friday, April 1, and left the coun...

QCOSTARICA – At least six new hotels are planning to start operations between this year and next in the provinces of Alajuela, Limón, Heredia and Guanacaste, according to data provided by the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT) – Co...

QCOSTARICA – The World Trade Organization (WTO) determined that Costa Rica did not present sufficient scientific justification to limit the importation of Mexican Hass-type aguacate (avocado). In 2015, the government of Luis Guillermo Solís st...