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Tue, 09 Mar 2021 06:56:32 +0000
Leprechauns: Facts About the Irish Trickster Fairy
There is something strangely compelling about the legend of a leprechaun. This Irish creature is said to be something of a trickster but gives you luck when gambling. So just what do we know about these cheeky little creatures? Legend or Living It is...

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:23:38 +0000
Banks try to entice borrowers with online offers amid suspension of housing and car fairs
QCOSTARICA – Financial entities seek through the use of their virtual channels to promote the placement of new loans due to the impossibility, for the second consecutive year, of participating in face-to-face fairs for the sale of homes and aut...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 19:05:36 +0000
Digital nomads from the United States, Chile and Portugal highlight the advantages of working from Costa Rica
QCOSTARICA – Costa Rica has become an ideal destination for foreigners who choose to work remotely, highlighting digital nomads from Chile, Portugal, and the United States who have lived and worked from here, some for periods of months and in o...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 17:41:25 +0000
Costa Rica begins second pandemic year with 3 urgent tasks: vaccinate, reactivate economy and recover education
QCOSTARICA – The pandemic is not over. Not yet. We still have some time to go before getting there. Perhaps that is the most important thing to keep in mind at the beginning of the second pandemic year. Although the number of new daily confirme...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:07:43 +0000
47 travelers have tried to leave the country with false covid-19 test results in two weeks
QCOSTARICA – The Ministry of Public Security (MSP) reported on Friday that, in a period of two weeks, 47 travelers have tried to leave Costa Rica, through the Juan Santamaría (San Jose) airport, with false documents that show negative results ...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:52:24 +0000
“I tell people: don’t be afraid, get vaccinated!”
QCOSTARICA – “Don’t be afraid, get vaccinated,” are words of doña Irma Ceciliano, in a virtual conversation, along with three other seniors, telling President Carlos Alvarado about their experience and expectations with the v...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:38:27 +0000
Live press conference on the pandemic will now be weekly
QCOSTARICA – A year into the pandemic, the government is throttling back on the press conferences to update the evolution of the pandemic. From the first days after March 6, 2020, of the first case of COVID-19 confirmed in the country, every da...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:15:12 +0000
More than 36,000 people in indigenous territories will have telephony and internet
QCOSTARICA – Some 36,000 people from 14 indigenous territories in the South and Atlantic zones will benefit from broadband services and fixed and mobile telephony thanks to the Connected Communities Program.   In total, 56 communities will...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 10:05:14 +0000
Chicharras
FINCA PARAISO (QCOSTARICA) At this time of the year many forested parts of Costa Rica are alive with the song of chicharras, cicadas. They are also known as cigarras in Spanish, but chicharra is more commonly used in Costa Rica. Despite the overwhelm...

Sat, 06 Mar 2021 14:10:14 +0000
Alert in Colombia due to the start of the first rainy season
Q COLOMBIA – In less than two weeks, Colombia enters its first rainy season of the year, which will very possibly have an increase in rainfall between 10% and 40% compared to the historical record, due to La Niña phenomenon consolidating in the re...



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