QCOSTARICA – As expected, the regulatory authority, Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (Aresep), on Friday approved the latest hike in fuel prices of ¢104 per liter for both super gasoline and diesel and an increase of ¢91 for re...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica’s immigration service, the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería (DGME), deported 228 people so far this year due to impediments to entering Costa Rica, non-compliance with immigration requirements, or du...

QCOSTARICA – On July 15, unless there is a breakthrough, the contract the Spanish company, Riteve SyC, has with the government of Costa Rica to provide vehicular inspections will come to an end. If there is no extension, after 20 years, the veh...

QCOSTARICA – The Ministerio de Hacienda (Treasury) will create a new basic food basket (canasta básica), which would cause a decrease in the price of the products included. The new basket is subject to consultation by the General Directorate o...

QCOSTARICA – The Banco Central de Costa Rica (BCCR) – Central Bank of Costa Rica – intervened for the fourth consecutive day in the Foreign Currency Market (MONEX) to contain the rise in the dollar exchange rate and prevent it from ...

QCOSTARICA – The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) – Costa Rican Social Security Fund – declared an institutional state of emergency due to cyberattacks that affected most of the services and more than half of its servers. ...

TODAY NICARAGUA (EFE) Opposition organizations in Nicaragua launched this Wednesday a boycott of fuel purchases for automobiles and electricity consumption, with the aim of showing “resistance” to the government of President Daniel Ortega, whom t...

QCOSTARICA – n times of high inflation, consumers prioritize basic products or substitute items for cheaper brands. According to the consulting firm Kantar, Costa Ricans reflect this behavior and during April, compared to the same month in 2021...

The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already warmer than average. Even more worrying is a current of warm tropical water that is looping unusually far into the Gulf for this time of year, with the power to turn tr...

QCOSTARICA – The Minister of Health, Joselyn Chacón, at a press conference on Wednesday, confirmed the first case under investigation for suspected monkeypox in Costa Rica. The patient is a 21-year-old Norwegian who came to visit the country o...