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Sun, 03 Jan 2021 09:10:23 +0000
Plan your return from vacation: Route 27 will enable reversible lane this Sunday afternoon
QCOSTARICA – The Ruta 27 (San Jose – Caldera) will have reversible lanes to San Jose between the Pozón and Ciudad Colón interchanges, during Sunday afternoon. The concessionaire, Globalvia, indicated that they will use this measure with...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 08:28:00 +0000
Nicaragua gvt promotes massive events fueling the second wave of contagion
TODAY NICARAGUA – While the world tightens restrictions again to stop the second wave of Covid-19 contagion, which has already killed almost two million people and at a time when fear grows for a more contagious strain of the virus, in Nicaragua th...

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 08:09:00 +0000
Reviewing the Year of the Pandemic in Nicaragua
TODAY NICARAGUA – 2020 was marked above all by Covid-19. It became one of those years that will forever mark a before and after, all over the world. Some 80 million Covid infections have now been documented worldwide, and 1.7 million deaths. In Ni...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 13:35:31 +0000
Police take almost 30 minutes to respond to a call
QCOSTARICA – The response of the police to a call from La Sabana or some other nearby town in the Mata Redonda district lasts 27 minutes and 57 seconds. If the emergency call is issued from Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, the response takes more than a...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:55:01 +0000
San José is the province with the greatest decrease in murders for 2020
QCOSTARICA – Randall Picado, police director of the Fuerza Publica (National Police), confirmed that San José registered 21 fewer homicides compared to 2019. According to Picado, in 2019, there were 173 homicides in the province of San José, ...

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:36:47 +0000
New base salary came into force to set various fines and penalties
QCOSTARICA – This Friday, January 1, 2021, the increase in the base salary of a clerk of the Judicial Power came into force, an amount which is used to calculate a large number of fines and penalties. The official base salary is now ¢462,000 c...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 14:11:59 +0000
The Vehicle Restrictions for January
QCOSTARICA – Drivers are reminded that starting today, January 1, that there is a change in the vehicle restrictions and the Marchamo 2021 (circulation) permit sticker should be on the windshield, to avoid fines and possible seizure of license ...

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 13:45:42 +0000
Crisis drowns restaurants and bars as entrepreneurs struggle to survive
QCOSTARICA – During 2020, the bar and restaurant sector had to reinvent itself to assimilate the blow caused by the covid-19 pandemic and stay alive. However, the crisis arrived and left a deep scar, about 30% of the businesses will not reopen ...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 10:17:15 +0000
OJO! Vehicle Restrictions Start at 7:00 pm Tonight, December 31
QCOSTARICA – The vehicular restrictions start at 7:00 pm tonight, Thursday, December 31, and are in effect until 5:00 am Friday, January 1. In addition, for Thursday daytime, vehicles with plates ending in 7 and 8 are prohibited from circulatin...

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 10:06:32 +0000
Second batch with 11,700 vaccines against covid-19 reaches Costa Rican soil
QCOSTARICA – The second batch of vaccines against covid-19 landed on Wednesday night, December 30, at the Juan Santamaría airport, with a total of 11,700 doses of the drug developed by Pfizer / BioNTech. The flight, carried out by DHL Aero Exp...



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