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Fri, 08 Jul 2022 08:33:01 +0000
President defends Global Income Tax
QCOSTARICA – President Rodrigo Chaves confirmed that the government will advance with Renta Global (Global Income Tax), as stated by the Minister of Finance, Nogui Acosta, before the Treasury Affairs Commission. The objective of global income i...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 14:15:31 +0000
Ruta 1: The road project that has no end
QCOSTARICA – The Government’s decision to put an end to the trust to expand the highway between San José and San Ramón, would AGAIN, cost taxpayers money for nothing, for a road project that seems to have no end. This time around it wou...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:35:02 +0000
Government announces reduction in electricity rates and 31% reduction in tariffs for rice imports
QCOSTARICA – In the wave of rising prices, two items will offer relief to consumers: electricity rates and the price of rice. On Wednesday, the government announced reductions in electricity rates and tariffs for importing rice. In the case of ...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:24:26 +0000
Monkeypox: Costa Rica has ruled out six suspected cases
QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica has already ruled out six suspected cases of monkeypox after different laboratory tests were carried out and these confirmed that none of these people had the disease. According to the Ministry of Health, they are four f...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:06:23 +0000
Missionaries expelled by the Ortega regime arrived in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – A group of missionaries of the Caridad de la Madre Teresa de Calcuta (Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta) arrived in Costa Rica, after being expelled by the Nicaraguan regime of Daniel Ortega. The nuns were escorted by police pat...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:30:30 +0000
Decree will allow importation of new or used cars without the vehicle inspection
QCOSTARICA – After July 15, 4:00 pm to be exact, Costa Rica will be without a vehicular inspection service, as the contract, after 20 years, with the Riteve SyC comes to an end and all facilities and equipment are handed over to the State. Acco...

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:05:38 +0000
Specialists predict that the exchange rate will continue close to ¢700
QCOSTARICA – Seeing the selling price of the U.S. dollar below ¢695 became a thing of the past. According to financial analysts, this trend will continue into the second half of the year. July started with a sell reference rate by the Banco Ce...

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:59:34 +0000
Rafaella Carrà rejected Hollywood, refused advances from Frank Sinatra. Here, her story.
Q MAGAZINE – Born in the city of Bologna, Italy, on June 18, 1943, Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni’s family jobs – her father owned a bar and her grandmother an ice cream parlor – heralded a future behind a counter rather than...

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:10:53 +0000
Costa Rica launches a tourism incubation program for indigenous peoples
QCOSTARICA – The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (ICT) launched the ‘Raíces’ program on Tuesday, an initiative focused on the generation and consolidation of indigenous tourism v...

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:03:30 +0000
Abortion: Salvadorean woman sentenced to 50 years
Q24N – A woman in El Salvador has been handed down a 50-year jail sentence for having had an abortion, it was reported Monday. It was the first time that the maximum penalty has been applied. Pro-abortion groups have pledged to appeal the rulin...



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