QCOSTARICA – The drop in infections and hospitalizations due to covid-19 that surprises scientists and health officials of the last few weeks resulted in the government being more flexible in the vehicular restrictions. Starting Monday, Februar...

QCOSTARICA – While other countries suffer serious increases in their rates of Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, Costa Rica has experienced three consecutive weeks with these indicators plummeting. During these weeks, the average dai...

Rico’s TICO BULL –  If this wasn’t so sad I would be laughing. After investing millions of dollars for eight new ultra-modern (for Costa Rica) trains, months of preparation, and retrofitting tracks and stations, it appears no one b...

QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica is wasting the opportunity to produce more honey, as it does not have a national apiculture plan to promote the activity, said Juan Bautista Alvarado, president of the Cámara Nacional de Fomento de la Apicultura (Nation...

QCOSTARICA – To alleviate the financial hardships of families hit by the pandemic, the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) has canceled the mandatory use of uniforms for the 2021 school year. Education Minister Melania Brenes made the announceme...

QCOSTARICA – Live music in closed spaces, such as restaurants and bars has the approval of the authorities, following the approval two weeks ago of protocols for outdoor musical events, after many months of prohibition due to the pandemic. In t...

QCOSTARICA – Land and marine animals have extra help in Costa Rica, with the existence of Earthrace Conservation, an international organization dedicated to the protection of fauna. Earthrace y is an ally of the park rangers and coastguards in ...

QCOSTARICA – The contagion rate of covid-19 in Costa Rica registered a slight increase in the last week, but it remains at low levels. In the last seven days, the indicator of the Universidad Hispanoamericana (UH) went from 0.81 to 0.84. This m...

QCOSTARICA – The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) reported Thursday, February 4, that unemployment in the last moving quarter of 2020 reached 20%. The moving quarter means that the three-month average unemployment is conside...

QCOSTARICA – Informal employment was the hardest hit by the economic crisis caused by the new coronavirus pandemic in Costa Rica, and is now the one that is rising the fastest. This is seen in the results of the Continuous Employment Survey (En...