Today, Thursday, June 24, plates ending in 7 & 8 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. On Saturday, June 26, and then until Sunday, July 11, we go back...

QCOSTARICA – The week of June 13 to 19 registered a decrease in the average number of deaths due to Covid-19, when 20 daily deaths were recorded, with a total of 144. The number is a drop of an average of daily deaths from the week prior, June ...

QCOSTARICA – The paralysis of flights from Canada last January hit Costa Rica’s tourism sector, as Canada was the second source market for tourists in the country before the pandemic, representing 7% of tourists. From January to May of th...

Berlin is the place to be: the best parks, cinemas, concerts, and cultural life attract many students every year. COVID-19 has changed the situation a bit, but in general, not much. The city can distract you from learning. It is why we made a list of...

QCOSTARICA – A Costa Rican tried to enter the country through the Juan Santamaría International – San Jose Airport – with US$153,244 (the equivalent of ¢93.6 million colones) in his suitcases and whose origin is unknown. The arres...

Today, Wednesday, June 23, plates ending in 5 & 6 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. On Saturday, June 26, and then until Sunday, July 11, we go bac...

QCOSTARICA – For the first time in two months, less than 800 new cases of covid-19 in a single day were registered on June 21. The week begins with 797 infections detected in the last 24 hours. The last time a figure lower than that was recorde...

QCOSTARICA – The value of Costa Rica exports increased by 23% in the first five months of the year, being the highest growth in the last five years. Understandable because there is a rebound effect after the Covid-19 pandemic a year ago, even s...

QCOSTARICA – Emilia Navas will not be removed from her position as attorney general, after calls for her to step down due to her removing herself in high profile cases, the latest in the “caso Cochinilla”, that prompted a judicial r...

EXPAT FOCUS (MND) Of course it was no surprise that readers of Mexico News Daily voted Mexico as the No. 1 expat destination in a recent poll. We can probably safely assume that most already live here, want to, or are snowbirds. Fully 60% ranked Mexi...