QCOSTARICA – According to data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos  (INEC), the cost of living in Costa Rica has skyrocketed, with year-on-year inflation standing at 11.48%, the highest in the last decade According to the Cons...

QCOSTARICA – The Board of Pensions and Retirement of the National Teachers, together with the Operadora de Pensiones Vida Plena and the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS), announced the 2022-2050 roadmap to strengthen the National Pensi...

QCOSTARICA – The Partido Liberal Progresista (PLP) – Progressive Liberal Party –  proposes to eliminate the tax on imported beer. A Law dating from 1936 establishes a tax on national and imported liquors and a 10% tax only on impor...

QCOSTARICA – Have your umbrella at the ready this Monday as Tropical Wave #25 does its thing throughout most of the country. By Tuesday the conditions are expected to be drier. That is the forecast by the national weather service, the Instituto...

QCOSTARICA – One of the first tasks that the leaders of the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT) – Ministry of Public Works and Transportation – will have this Monday is to start with the analysis of the eleven offers ...

QCOSTARICA – The possibility that the country falls into an economic recession during 2022 and 2023 is unlikely, assured Rodrigo Cubero, former president of the Banco Central de Costa Rica) –  Central Bank, who participated as a panelist...

QCOSTARICA – Good news if your plans to travel and can wait a couple of months, with the announcement of a new ultra-low-cost airline starting operations in Costa Rica in October. Arajet will offer connections from Costa Rica to destinations in...

QCOSTARICA – The Pavas Health Area asked the residents of the area to take extreme sanitary measures after the dengue outbreaks in two locations. Health authorities detected an increase in cases of Dengue in the Finca San Juan and Lomas communi...

QCOSTARICA – The Ministry of Health reported 34 people lost their lives in the last week due to Covid-19, for an average of five deaths per day.   During the week of July 24-30, the country registered 13,310 new cases of Covid-19, 2,700 co...

QCOSTARICA – This is a strong blow for Casa Presidencial and curiously it comes from its best in the government, Álvaro Ramos and Roberto Cervantes, president and manager of the CCSS, respectively. La Nacion reports that the Caja Costarricense...