QCOSTARICA – For epidemiological week 33, which runs from August 14 to 20, the Health Surveillance Directorate reports a total of 8,891 cases of COVID-19, which represents a decrease of 1,781 cases compared to epidemiological week 32. With resp...

QCOSTARICA – Nine out of ten companies do not plan to lay off staff in the remainder of the year, according to the most recent “Pulso Empresarial” (Business Pulse) 2022 survey, carried out by the Unión Costarricense de Cámaras y Asociacio...

QCOSTARICA – Looking for work? Amazon may have a job for you, as they look to fill some 3,000 positions in different areas of their business. To achieve the goal, the company will be holding a job fair this Saturday, August 27, from 9:00 am to ...

QCOSTARICA – This year Costa Rica will celebrate a new holiday, August 31, “Día de la persona Negra” (Day of the Black Person and Afro-Costa Rican Culture), which was approved last year in Congress. The Ministerio de Trabajo y Segu...

TODAY COSTA RICA – A comment that we see very often on social networks is that the San Jose airport – the Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) – not located in the city or province of San Jose but in fact in Alajuela (the ci...

QCOSTARICA – Lucía D’Ambrosio, representative of the Interoceanic Dry Canal (Cansec), on Wednesday, as expected, retracted her statements given last week to the Legislative Commission on Infrastructure, that former President Carlos Alvar...

QCOSTARICA – At almost “half the price” of before, President Rodrigo Chaves announced on Wednesday that the German company, Dekra, was chosen to take over the vehicle inspection service (RTV) for the next two years. The Minister of ...

QCOSTARICA (Semanario Universidad) Selling the Banco Internacional de Costa Rica (BICSA) and the Banco de Costa Rica (BCR), as well as 49% of the State insurer, the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS), does not seem to have many proven benefits, at l...

QCOSTARICA – The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) reported that the health areas, hospitals and units attached to the Medical Management enabled the use of the Expediente Único en Salud (EDUS) for user care. Of the total of 147 healt...

QCOSTARICA – The Civil Court of the First Judicial Circuit of San José sentenced the Episcopal Conference and Archbishop José Rafael Quirós to pay ¢65 million colones for moral damages to the victim of sexual abuse by the former priest Maur...