Q REPORTS (The Economist) Technological change is upending finance. Bitcoin has gone from being an obsession of anarchists to a $1trn asset class that many fund managers insist belongs in any balanced portfolio. Swarms of digital day-traders have bec...

QCOSTARICA – The hook of six states promoting Covid-19 inoculation for tourists in the United States caught many Costa Ricans. They are Texas, Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Florida, states that do not ask for higher requireme...

QCOSTARICA – With a mega-complex of more than 153,000 square meters (1.65 million square feet), comprised of 16 ministries would be located in eight buildings, will give a new face to the southern sector of San Jose. The project called “C...

QCOSTARICA – 48 patients with covid-19, the majority in severe and moderate condition, this Thursday morning were waiting for a bed in a hospital in San José. As reported by the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), they are 4 patients i...

QCOSTARICA – With the objective of boosting connectivity, regional tourism and the economic reactivation of the area, work started this Wednesday on the improvements of the Quepos (La Managua) airport. According to a report by the Instituto Cos...

QCOSTARICA – As of this week, tax exemptions on-line purchases of less than US$500 have been eliminated, except for goods without a commercial value sent by relatives, and aimed at individuals instead of companies, confirmed Elian Villegas, Min...

QCOSTARICA – At the beginning of this month of May, Costa Rica has applied almost a million vaccines, as announced by President Carlos Alvarado on his Twitter account. While the president stated the country has surpassed the million mark, the n...

QCOSTARICA – Following a drop of new cases of covid-19 over the long weekend, the ugly head of the virus resurfaced on Wednesday with 2,555 new cases, as reported by the Ministry of Health in the early evening. While the number of covid patient...

Q MAGAZINE – The Costa Rican movies “Maikol Yordan de Viaje Perdido” and “Maikol Yordan 2 La Cura Lejana”, joined the catalog of the Amazon Prime Video platform, the globally second only to Netflix. Both Maikol Yordan fi...

QCOSTARICA – Will the current wave of covid-19 infections cost Costa Rica’s recovery of its already battered tourism? Will the wave of infections and scarcity of hospital beds due to an oversaturation of medical services be met with touri...