QCOSTARICA – Consumers in Costa Rica should brace themselves for gasoline prices of up to ¢1,000 colones per liter, according to various experts, who say the dollar exchange rate and the war between Russia and Ukraine, shoot up the cost of thi...

QCOSTARICA – The crisis in Ukraine due to the invasion of Russia has repercussions on the world economy and Costa Rica is no exception to this reality. Jaime García, economist and director of the Índice de Progreso Social  (IPS) – Soci...

QCOSTARICA – The month of February closed with 45 road deaths, the highest number of deaths per month since 2001 when 51 fatalities were recorded. For the Policia de Transito (Traffic Police), these figures are of great concern. It’s been...

Q24N – El Salvador and Panama are the two Central American countries that will no longer require negative Covid-19 tests or medical insurance as an entry requirement. However, in Panama the measure will only apply to the vaccinated. Since Febru...

QCOSTARICA – A less negative economic situation and greater purchasing power compared to 2021, but dissatisfied about the state of their family finances, showed Costa Ricans who participated in the most recent survey by the School of Statistics...

QCOSTARICA – The Servicio Nacional de Aduanas (SNA) – Costa Rican Customs Authority, has signed up TradeLens, an interconnected ecosystem of supply chain partners, to review containerized shipment events and transportation documents, incl...

QCOSTARICA – The dusty soil of the border trail made the midday heat of Thursday, February 17, feel even more intense in El Bochinche. The vaccination teams knew this and understood that this could complicate the arrival of some people. They kn...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica detected the presence of a potentially more transmissible sublineage of the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes covid-19. This “subvariant” is called BA.2 and has been under study around the...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica’s immigration service, the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería (DGME), will be issuing biometric passports starting on March 7, as was announced last year. As of that date, any Costa Rican person who re...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica’s president, Carlos Alvarado, signed this Wednesday the Law that seeks to promote cannabis for medicinal use and hemp for industrial purposes. Weeks ago the president partially vetoed the initiative. Congress accep...