QCOSTARICA – With the start of the 2022 school year on Thursday, February 17,  the Policia de Transito (Traffic Police) will have a greater presence in at least 67 schools. The tasks will focus on speed controls in school zones, surveillance o...

QCOSTARICA – Although new cases of Covid-19 continue to decline, deaths and hospitalizations associated with the virus are increasing, as indicated by the epidemiological report from the Ministry of Health, which analyzed the behavior of the pa...

Q TRAVEL – Canada is easing some of its testing and quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated travelers. As of Feb. 28, negative results from rapid antigen tests taken no more than 24 hours prior to departure will be accepted from fully vacc...

QCOSTARICA  – The future of Riteve, in charge of offering the vehicle technical inspection service nationwide and since 2002, and its 500 employees remains uncertain. “We hope that something will be resolved,” said company spokeswo...

Q24N (EFE) The Ministry of the Environment (Miambiente) of Panama launched this Tuesday, February 15, 2022, the Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia Climática (PNCT) – national climate transparency platform – to manage and report sustain...

QCOSTARICA – With a vote of 35 in favor and 7 against, legislators approved to fast-track the bill that eliminates the sanitary vehicular restriction, which currently applies nationwide from 12 am to 5 am, according to the current decree. The m...

QCOSTARICA – The cost of a liter of super gasoline could reach, in a few weeks, the highest price in history in Costa Rica. The Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (Recope) – the Costa Rican Oil Refinery that refines nothing – on ...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica’s democracy is the third strongest in the entire American continent, after Canada and Uruguay, according to the prestigious 2021 Democracy Index published by the Intelligence Unit of The Economist. On a scale of 1 ...

QCOSTARICA – In the 1986 presidential elections, cantons such as Carillo, in Guanacaste, or Esparza, in Puntarenas, had a higher percentage of participation than the central canton of San José. In those cantons, up to 90% of its residents atte...

TODAY COSTA RICA – Doña Toñita is a neighbor of Barrio Tulita in Santa Cruz, she has a tortilla factory and very early she begins her work, producing handmade, homecooked tortillas. Can you imagine how delicious Doña Toñita’s tortilla...