QCOSTARICA – If the elections were this Sunday, Costa Rica would have a heart attack to meet the new president, since there is currently a technical tie, according to the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Políticos (CIEP UCR) – the Cen...

QCOSTARICA – A new modality by Costa Rica’s politicians is for legislators to turn their backs on their political party and declare themselves independent after taking their seat in the Legislative Assembly, some almost immediately, while...

QCOSTARICA – The tax burden charged in Costa Rica for fuel means that consumers in Costa Rica pay the most expensive price in the region. It is for this reason that several business chambers are asking the government to lower or freeze taxes, g...

QCOSTARICA – Legislators decided to file away a bill that sought a 25% tax on lottery prizes greater than ¢225,000 colones, a proposal from the current government. This Tuesday the Committee on Legal Affairs decided unanimously not to proceed ...

QCOSTARICA – The presidential candidate of the Partido Progreso Social Democrático (PPSD), Rodrigo Chaves, issued a warning to the Costa Rican Judiciary on Tuesday after hearing “rumors” that the headquarters of his party and his h...

Q24N (EFE) El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly suspended on  Tuesday (March 22) the collection of the Value Added Tax (VAT) – which taxes 13% on final consumption – on fuels for 15 days, this as a measure to face the inflation that ...

RICO’s COVID DIGEST – The Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) reports applying 10,018,261 doses of the vaccine against covid-19. Data from the CCSS, released on its website this Tuesday afternoon and updated as of Monday, March 21,...

QCOSTARICA – Three World Cup qualifiers remain. Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are the top three nations in the standings. Panama is next, with Costa Rica behind them for an intercontinental playoff spot, while Jamaica, El Salvador and Honduras ar...

Q MAGAZINE – Nina Dobrev is living her best beach life while on a vacation in Costa Rica with her boyfriend Shaun White and has been wearing the most adorable one-piece swimsuits. In a new Instagram post, the 33-year-old Vampire Diaries star sh...

QCOSTARICA – The dry conditions in several regions of the country, plus the strong winds, have caused a large number of fires in the national vegetation. Authorities of the Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación (Sinac) – National Sy...