QCOSTARICA – The Regulatory Authority (Aresep) – Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos – presented, this Friday, a request for an increase, that would bring the price of gasoline in Costa Rica above ¢1,000 a liter. This i...

QCOSTARICA – The contagion rate of covid-19 in Costa Rica, which measures the speed of transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, fell slightly in the last week, going from 1.43 to 1.21. However, this is still at high levels and that is why the numb...

(CONFIDENCIAL) I’m a journalist and also a Nicaraguan immigrant. I’ve lived in Costa Rica for the last seven years, and I’m grateful to that country for giving me the opportunity to grow as a person, enriching both my personal and my profession...

QCOSTARICA The Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of Costa Rica met Thursday with President Rodrigo Chaves and some of his ministers in Casa Presidencial. “With a listening attitude, we had a frank and sincere dialogue, seeking to unite our ef...

QCOSTARICA – The term “sugar daddy” was born to describe men who tend to pamper younger women with economic luxuries since for them money is never a problem. This is also usually presented vice versa, where women who fulfill this ro...

QCOSTARICA – The first lady of the United States, Jill Biden, and Ashley Biden, one of her three children, will visit Costa Rica this weekend as part of a tour that will also include Panama and Ecuador, confirmed the US Embassy in Costa Rica. B...

QCOSTARICA – In the second week of the new government, the ill-concealed annoyance between President Rodrigo Chaves and some of the media reached new dimensions. Through his Twitter account, President Rodrigo Chaves denied an alleged government...

QCOSTARICA – As the headline reads, we are in for a drop in gasoline prices, but it will take some to feel the regulatory authority’s proposed reduction of ¢28 per liter on super gasoline, ¢27 on regular, and ¢43 on diesel as an effect...

QCOSTARICA – What will happen to the expansion of Ruta 27 that connects San José with Caldera? The answer is still uncertain. The previous administration maintained a negotiation process with the Ruta 27 concessionaire, Globalvia Ruta 27, on t...

Q REPORTS (Economist) For Joan Didion, an American essayist, Miami in the 1980s was “not exactly an American city…but a tropical capital: long on rumor, short on memory, overbuilt on the chimera of runaway money”. Nearly 40 years later, the pla...