QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica’s tourism sector is not registering major effects on visitation due to the high cost of living, which continues to rise. The executive director of the Chamber of Tourism (Canatur), Shirley Calvo, acknowledges that ...

QCOSTARICA – To promote local visitation and thus reactivate tourism in the country, the Legislative Assembly, back in 2020, approved a law that moves some holidays to Mondays. Thanks to this, during the year there will be long weekends so that...

QCOSTARICA (Elfinancierocr.com) Costa Rica has a total of 338 private schools throughout the country, bringing together more than approximately 44,000 students. This is according to data from the Ministerio de Educación Pública (MEP) – Minist...

QCOSTARICA – Traffic accident statistics reveal a growth, some even calling a pandemic on the roads. A report from the Universidad Hispanoamericana (UH) revealed that in the last 32 years more than 20,000 people died in traffic accidents. Accor...

QCOSTARICA – On July 14, the Comisión Nacional de Vacunación y Epidemiología (CNVE)  – National Vaccination and Epidemiology Commission – agreed to purchase 900,000 Pfizer-brand vaccines against Covid-19 to immunize 300,000 chil...

Cosmetic dental surgeons across Europe have established international alliances with colleagues in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and also with neighboring nations, with Turkey emerging as the most well-liked and prosperous Euro...

TODAY COSTA RICA (UCLA News) Anthropology professors and field primatologists have documented the daily life of hundreds of the large-brained capuchin monkeys in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. They have found that female capuchin monkeys who are better inte...

RICO’s DIGEST – There is never really a good time for a politician, especially a top politician, like Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, on the second week of his Costa Rica vacation, to take some leisure time. While Trudeau, ...

QCOSTARICA (Nacion.com) Four out of ten complaints of extortion filed with the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ), San José headquarters, in the first half of 2022, were derived from the victims’ search for sexual services on the Inter...

Q24N (Reuters) Buenos Aires – Argentina’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 950 basis points on Thursday as the country struggles to keep a lid on spiraling inflation that rose to a 20-year high of 71%, according to new d...