QCOSTARICA – The French referee Stephanie Frappart will lead the first all-female officiating team for a men’s World Cup match when she takes charge of Costa Rica vs Germany, on Thursday, December 1. Frappart, who will be the first woman ...

QCOSTARICA – Getting your driver’s license in a single day is now a reality in Costa Rica, well for users in San José. The General Directorate of Road Education of the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MOPT) announced that, st...

QCOSTARICA – ESET, a leading proactive threat detection company, analyzes the publication for sale in a well-known hacking forum of an alleged database containing 487 million WhatsApp user numbers – 1.4 million from Costa Rica – fro...

Q REPORTS (IPS) – Violence against women has failed to decline in the Latin American region after the sharp rise recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, while preventing the causes of such violence remains a major challenge. This is what represe...

QCOSTARICA – Drawn in a group with Germany, Spain, and Japan, Costa Rica were very much the underdogs from the start – as they were in Brazil when they nevertheless progressed from a group featuring England, Italy, and Uruguay. But they don&#...

QCOSTARICA – The Minister of Finance, Nogui Acosta, confirmed that the Government called off the project to sell Banco de Costa Rica (BCR). The Minister was summoned to a hearing before the Economic Affairs Commission to answer questions in ref...

QTECH – Have you ever wanted to message yourself? Using the instant messaging app, WhatsApp, you have noticed it is impossible. Until now. But that is soon to change, as Whatsapp has started rolling out a feature to let you chat with yourself. ...

QCOSTARICA  (Revista Summa) The increase in fixed and mobile Internet connections, in a large part of 82 cantons, boosts the levels of competitiveness in Costa Rica, as revealed by the second National Competitiveness Index (ICN) study, prepared by e...

Q24N (EFE) The situation of immigrants who cross Central America on their way to the United States is “quite complex” because the region is in a “migration storm,” according to the head of mission of the International Organiza...

QCOSTARICA – If you plan to make a ‘carnita asada’ (grilled and sliced beed) for Christmas or New Year’s Eve, take note that prices increased up to 20% in the last year. According to the Índice de Precios al Consumidor (IPC) ...