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Wed, 08 Jun 2022 14:49:25 +0000
Liter of Super will be ¢1,062 on Thursday, June 9
QCOSTARICA – On Thursday Costa Rica wakes up to a historic price of gasoline and diesel, when at 12:01 am, June 9, the price of a liter of super gasoline will be ¢1,062 colones, regular ¢1,024 and diesel ¢1,012. This after the adjustment was...

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:22:27 +0000
Costa Rica’s basic services and airports could be in the crosshairs of hackers
QCOSTARICA – Can you imagine the immigration service hacked, the judicial system paralyzed by problems of access to electronic files, or the water service with problems attending to leaks or reconnecting services? Well, a chain attack against C...

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 08:31:33 +0000
Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua without invitation to the Summit of the Americas,
Q REPORTS  – Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, led by the regimes of Miguel Díaz-Canel, Nicolás Maduro and Daniel Ortega, respectively, are the three countries in the hemisphere that did not receive an invitation to the IX Summit of the Americ...

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 08:03:26 +0000
La Sele took the illusion of the whole country to Qatar
QCostTARICA – The fans threw themselves to the street to bid farewell to the National Team, La Seleccion or Sele, yelling: “let’s go, with everything” and asking it to return with a Qatar 2022 World Cup qualification. The “oeoee...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:50:33 +0000
Foreigner companies line up for vehicle inspection contract
QCOSTARICA – Companies from Spain, Portugal, Panama, and Mexico are lining up to get the vehicle technical inspection service contract, according to the minister of the Ministerio de Obras Publicas y Transportes (MOPT), Luis Amador. The ministe...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:40:50 +0000
Man who murdered and buried his wife in Costa Rica is sentenced in Nicaragua
QCOSTARICA – Bayardo Francisco Mercado Doña, 39, was sentenced in Nicaragua to 25 years in prison for the murder of his wife, Vilma Ramona de Jesús Ledezma Garita, 85. The crime was committed in December 2019 in the citadel, La Carpio, in Uru...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:00:18 +0000
Manual transmission cars closer to disappearing in Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – There was a time in the not-to-distant past you could not take a driver’s license exam if the auto was not with a manual transmission. Less than two decades later, Cars with manual transmissions are closer to disappearing in ...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:37:02 +0000
Toll rates on ruta 27 increase from today, June 7
QCOSTARICA – Today, Tuesday, June 7, the tolls on the ruta 27 (San Jose – Caldera) will increase in price as communicated by Ruta 27 (formerly Globalvia), the concessionaire and administrator of the collection stations. The adjustment tak...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:03:18 +0000
Dollar exchange drops ¢10 colones
QCOSTARICA – The “yo-yo” dollar exchange took a nosedive in the last several days, falling ¢10 colones at commercial banks following last week’s massive intervention by the Banco Central (Central Bank). This Tuesday, the refe...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 08:51:14 +0000
President and Alajuela legislators come together to ‘end’ the wait for the road to San Carlos
The Central government and the majority of the legislators of the province of Alajuela on Monday expressed their support for the completion of the road from Naranjo to San Carlos, a project that has been waiting for more than five decades. Since 1986...



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