QCOSTARICA – While many activities are being held today, September 15, to commemorate Costa Rica’s 201 years of independence, it is NOT a legal holiday for workers in both the public and private sectors. The legal holiday will be on Monda...

Q24N (La Estrella) “We are working to position ourselves as an ideal destination among companies from countries that wish to strengthen the supply chain,” said Panama’s Minister of Commerce and Industry (MICI), Federico Alfaro Boyd,...

QCOSTARICA – Southwest Airlines announced two new flights and an increase in frequencies to the two main international airports in Costa Rica.   Southwest indicated that as of March 9, 2023, it will fly twice a week (Saturday and Sunday) t...

QCOSTARICA – The Ministry of Health confirmed the fourth case of monkeypox in Costa Rica. This is of a 30-year-old Costa Rican man, who made a trip abroad and returned last week. According to Health, the symptoms presented by the patient were f...

QCOSTARICA – The government of Rodrigo Chaves has set an initial value of US$1.785 billion dollars in the legislative bill for the selling off of the Banco de Costa Rica (BCR) – Costa Rica’s State bank. The Executive Branch extracte...

QCOSTARICA – A new bill would force Costa Ricans to vote in national and municipal elections and unjustified absences at the polls would be sanctioned with fines of up to ¢1,386,000 colones. The initiative presented by Partido Unidad Social Cr...

QCOSTARICA – The Torch of Independence is already in Costa Rica after the minister of Public Education (MEP), Anna Katharina Müller, received the flames in Peñas Blancas at the border with Nicaragua at the hands of her Nicaraguan counterpart ...

QCOSTARICA – The Torch of Independence will begin its passage through Costa Rica this Tuesday morning, in a ceremonial act on the border with Nicaragua at Peñas Blancas. The route from the border to the city of Cartago will be 378 kilometers a...

QCOSTARICA – In order not to become a victim of cyberbanking scams, experts from the Colegio de Profesionales en Informática y Computación (CPIC) – College of Professionals in Informatics and Computing  – provide tips to prevent ...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica’s economy, as in the rest of the world, was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a deterioration in economic conditions, which were reflected in the drop in variables such as Foreign Direct Investment (F...