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Tue, 23 Feb 2021 04:32:28 +0000‘Bye’ to the weekend license plate restrictions
QCOSTARICA – The nighttime vehicle restrictions starting on March 1 will be from 11:00 pm and not 10:00 pm as this month, and on weekends daytime odd and evens plates on weekends will be eliminated. The authorities indicated that this decision ...
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:51:34 +0000
The Costa Rica saliva test to detect COVID-19 would also help in cases of malaria, zika and dengue
QCOSTARICA – On Friday, February 5, 2021, the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) held a virtual symposium in which mathematicians, biologists, communicators, doctors and microbiologists (national and international) met to discuss a transcendental ...
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:32:29 +0000
Costa Rica, Cuba to cooperate in television and radio broadcasting
HQ (Prensa Latina) Costa Rica and Cuba on Friday signed a framework cooperation agreement between the National System of Radio and Television S.A. (SINART) and the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT) for the exchange of audiovisual materia...
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:27:36 +0000
Despite Covid and Barriers Nicaraguans Migrate to Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – Restricted borders, increased immigration patrols, limitations in transportation and movement and the pandemic has not deterred Nicaraguan migrants from arriving in Costa Rica. Nicaragua’s economic and political crisis contin...
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 10:15:26 +0000
The “marías” resist dying in a technological shakeup for taxi drivers
QCOSTARICA – The disappearance of the taximeters (popularly known as “marías”) will not be immediate despite the new mobile application that will manage services between taxi drivers and users. The “marías”, historical...
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 10:03:27 +0000
Oscar Arias: I am very clear that a third defeat for the PLN implies burying the party
QCOSTARICA – Searching for a consensus candidate in the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN) for the 2022 presidential elections, is the intention of two-time former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Óscar Arias Sánchez, who met with fo...
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 09:30:24 +0000
AyA’s board member reacts: GM says that everything was resolved
QCOSTARICA – A member of the board of directors of the Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AyA) – water utility – Yolanda Acuña points to the general manager of the institution, Manuel Salas, for providing the ...
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:25:18 +0000
The Multiplaza Escazu store that sells nothing but helps in a big way
QCOSTARICA – Dona Rosa lost everything in her life and surrendered her will to the hands of others. Luck changed one day when she was rescued from a bunker in Plaza Víquez, where she was still living and without being addicted to any drugs. Sh...
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 23:29:02 +0000
MOPT plans to collect tolls on the Cañas-Liberia highway
QCOSTARICA – Driving the 50-kilometer concrete highway between Cañas-Liberia, inaugurated five years ago and already showing signs of deterioration, is now free of tolls. But that could change soon as the Ministry of Public Works and Transport...
Sat, 20 Feb 2021 23:00:12 +0000
Mandatory vaccination for Health officials
QCOSTARICA – Vaccination against covid-19 will be mandatory for all health officials, announced the medical manager of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), Mario Ruiz Cubillo, during a press conference Friday. “The vaccine actually sa...