Q EXPAT FOCUS – March 2 is quickly approaching and many non-resident expats are looking at ways to be able to continue to live in Costa Rica without running afoul of immigration, the DGME. More, they will lose their driving privileges come Marc...

Legislator proposes the “Costa Rica Space Agency” project. See article here Costa Rica to create aerospace agency like NASA, but in a small way

RICO’s DIGEST – The first steps are being taken to create an aerospace agency in Costa Rica, something like NASA, but in a small way. The initiative, Ley de Creación de la Agencia Espacial Costarricense (AEC) – the Costa Rican Spac...

“We’re guilty, we’re at fault for leaving. That’s it, I’m saying it clearly,”  Antoine Stefanelli, one of the French tourists stranded in Costa Rica since January 25, after having tested positive for Covid-19, rep...

HQ – Experts do not rule out that the sequence of tremors recorded in Golfito and its surroundings since Sunday will bring more moderate earthquakes in the coming days. According to Esteban Chaves, a seismologist at the Costa Rica Volcanologica...

Q TRAVEL – The low-cost airline, Volaris Costa Rica, a subsidiary of the Mexican Volaris, requested authorization from the Civil Aviation (Dirección Nacional de Aviación Civil) to fly between the Juan Santamaría or San Jose airport and Bogo...

QCOSTARICA – It is a lie that Costa Rica President Carlos Alvarado; Minister of Health, Daniel Salas; and the executive president of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), Román Macaya, do not want to get the vaccine against Covid-19, as...

QCOSTARICA – Tuesday night Costa Rica received a shipment of 79,560 doses, the largest single shipment so far, of the vaccine against covid-19 from Pfizer. With this sixth batch, the total of vaccines received by Costa Rica is 183,885 doses, wh...

Q TRAVEL – European airlines and local tourism agencies predict that Costa Ricans could resume tourism travel to the European Union starting in June. This estimate stems from the fact that by then there would be greater control of the pandemic ...

QCOSTARICA – Cleaning and disinfecting with alcohol, several times a day, tables, doorknobs, desks, and any other surface in the home; sanitizing grocery bags and groceries, or bathe and change clothes as soon as you get home, are all practices...