Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rica’s Fire Department (Bomberos) selected the most expensive offer in an emergency procurement for 40 ambulances, citing the bidder’s faster delivery timeline. A week after awarding the contract, though, the department req...

Q COSTA RICA — Cloud cover and rain will prevail across the country this Tuesday, November 3, primarily in the Pacific region, the Central Valley, and mountainous areas. During the morning, downpours accompanied by lightning are expected over the m...

RICO’s Q — Normally, I don’t post about Trump, but I couldn’t resist this one—especially given the timing: Election Day for the midterms. Iran displayed a giant billboard in Tehran bearing the words “We will kill Trump,” escalating ...

Q COSTA RICA — As expected, the sharp increase adjustment to fuel prices approved by the regulatory authority last week was published this Tuesday in the official government newsletter, La Gaceta. The Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos...

Q COSTA RICA — The expanded San José–San Ramón road corridor (Ruta 1) will feature surveillance cameras and radar units at intervals of at least 1.5 kilometers, as part of a system designed to monitor traffic flow, measure traffic volume, and d...

Q COSTA RICA — Starting today, Monday, November, 2, 2026, the Instituto Nacional de Seguros (INS) 2027 derecho de circulación—vehicle registration/circulation tax payment—period begins, with a key change: for the first time, the vehicle regist...

Q COSTA RICA — All travelers flying to the United States or transiting through the country must submit a declaration confirming that they have not been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo within the 21 days before their flight. The requirement,...

Q COSTA RICA — Costa Rican health data point to a serious mental-health burden among older adults. In the first 38 weeks of 2026, authorities recorded 1,656 cases of severe mental disorders in this age group, including 1,218 depression diagnoses an...

Q COSTA RICA — A Costa Rican court has ordered a 22-year-old woman, identified by her surname, Ortiz, to remain in preventive detention (remand) for one year while prosecutors investigate the killing of U.S. businessman Marc Walter Fleming. The ord...

Q COSTA RICA — After the regulatory authority approved a sharp fuel-price increase last Friday, many people are asking when the new prices will take effect. They become effective at midnight on the day they are published in the government’s offic...