QCOSTARICA – Two foreign tourists who got lost this Thursday had to spend the night inside the Arenal Volcano National Park before being rescued by authorities of the protected area. The tourists, one English and one Italian, entered with a gro...

QCOSTARICA – The price of the dollar decreased ¢10 in the last 15 days, going from ¢694 on July 1 to ¢684 this Friday. The drop is mainly due to seasonal reasons, as many people and companies are changing their dollars into colones to pay th...

Q REPORTS –  Mexico’s navy on Friday captured drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted of murdering a U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985, in a law enforcement coup that came at a heavy cost when a helicopter used in the mission crashed, ...

RICO’S DIGEST – “I am very concerned about the lack of focus on our position in Costa Rica regarding this,” wrote a reader on the lack of the current government’s inability to publish data regarding the pandemic, which i...

QCOSTARICA – The Government agreed to extend the deadline to complete the analog blackout process and switch to open digital television TO January 31, 2023. The deadline was this Thursday, July 14. As reported by the Ministry of Science, Innova...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica is positioned as one of the countries with the slowest vehicular traffic in Latin America and the world. According to a report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), published by La Nación, of 162 nations measured, C...

QCOSTARICA – It was almost 9 pm, Thursday, July 14, when staff at all 13 Riteve stations across the country, after 20 years, were handing out the last “stickers”. Although the contract with the State does end until 4 pm, Friday, Jul...

QCOSTARICA – The Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT) is moving hurriedly to ensure that the vehicles pending the vehicle inspection for the month of June are not fined by the Traffic Police. MOPT Minister, Luis Amador, explained ...

QCOSTARICA – A real embarrassment has occurred between the Government of Rodrigo Chaves and the Grupo Nación, after the temporary closure of Parque Viva through the Ministry of Health. The President assured that Grupo Nación did not present a...

QCOSTARICA – President Rodrigo Chaves justified the temporary closure of Parque Viva and denied that the decision was due to an attack on the press and the Grupo Nación. Authorities from the Fire Department of Costa Rica, the Ministry of Publi...