QCOSTARICA – This Wednesday President Rodrigo Chaves signed the decree that eliminates the ‘State of Emergency’ in Costa Rica due to covid-19. Chaves signed the decree eliminating the one signed in March 2020 by then president Carlo...

Q24N (DW.com) Cuban officials have confirmed that a third oil tank has collapsed due to a fire spreading through the Matanzas Supertanker Base, leaving the storage facility with five containers still standing. Military construction crews were buildin...

Q24N (MercoPress) Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Tuesday came under heavy criticism when he announced that he would transfer the National Guard to the scope of the Armed Forces, which was regarded as a “soft” coup d’...

QCOSTARICA – Once more a group of taxi drivers will demonstrate this Thursday, August 11, against the service of digital transport platforms such as Uber and DiDi. The taxi drivers are expected to group up in the morning from various parts of t...

Q TRAVEL – The ultra-low-cost startup airline will take off from the Juan Santamaría (San José) international airport headed for Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, on October 8. The airline is offering promotional round-trip flights on...

QCOSTARICA – According to data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos  (INEC), the cost of living in Costa Rica has skyrocketed, with year-on-year inflation standing at 11.48%, the highest in the last decade According to the Cons...

QCOSTARICA – The Board of Pensions and Retirement of the National Teachers, together with the Operadora de Pensiones Vida Plena and the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), announced the 2022-2050 roadmap to strengthen the National Pensi...

QCOSTARICA – The Partido Liberal Progresista (PLP) – Progressive Liberal Party –  proposes to eliminate the tax on imported beer. A Law dating from 1936 establishes a tax on national and imported liquors and a 10% tax only on impor...

QCOSTARICA – Have your umbrella at the ready this Monday as Tropical Wave #25 does its thing throughout most of the country. By Tuesday the conditions are expected to be drier. That is the forecast by the national weather service, the Instituto...

QCOSTARICA – One of the first tasks that the leaders of the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT) – Ministry of Public Works and Transportation – will have this Monday is to start with the analysis of the eleven offers ...