For this Monday and possibly Tuesday, stable and dry conditions are expected to continue in Costa Rica, as a result of the presence of the so-called Saharan Dust, indicated the national weather service, the Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN). Th...

QCOSTARICA – A resolution by the Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of Finance) will increase the cost of alcoholic beverages starting Monday, August 1, with an update on the tax rate. The new tax on alcoholic beverages from ¢3.6 colones to ¢5....

QCOSTARICA – “We are not going to give up,” say the protesters in Panama who began demonstrations a week ago against the rise in fuel, medicine, food and public waste. The protests in the neighboring country have also affected a num...

Would you like to study in Costa Rica? The good news is it has several universities to suit all your higher education requirements. Moreover, studying in Costa Rica is like a dream come true for many students, owing to the nation’s highly advanced ...

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...