QCOSTARICA – Owners and drivers of vehicles with license plates ending in 7, 8, and 9 (July to September) can rest assured that the Policia de Transito (Traffic Pollice) will not sanction for the violation of not having a valid vehicular inspec...

Q24N (MercoPress) “Drug trafficking is worse than drugs because it fills us with violence and corruption,” Mujica argued Former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica has retired from active politics but his witty statements keep making head...

Q24N (MercoPress)  With the Argentine economy in shambles, inflation out of control heading for hyper inflation, daily increases of prices, and new clamps to have access to some strong currency, –such as the US dollar, which Argentines love...

TODAY COSTA RICA – Original text published by La Nación on July 17, 1972. According to the operations studies carried out by the General Directorate of Civil Aviation at the Juan Santamaría International Airport, during the month of June, a t...

QCOSTARICA – In Costa Rica, according to the first Costa Rican Household Indebtedness Survey, conducted in November 2020, and published in February 2021, seven out of ten people over the age of 18 have debt. When a person fails to pay the debt ...

QCOSTARICA – In Costa Rica, the agreed price for housing rentals can only be updated, that is increased (or lowered), at the end of each year of the contract or only at the end of the contract, if renewed, depending if the rent is established i...

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 ...