QCOSTARICA – Today, Thursday, July 22, plates ending in 7 & 8 CANNOT circulate. The measure is countrywide and applied between 5:00 am and 9:00 pm, save for those under the well-known exemption. The following is the official program on the ...

QCOSTARICA – A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Punta Burica, Panama, shook most of the Costa Rican territory at 3:15 pm this Wednesday, July 21. The National Seismological Network (RSN) reported that the epicenter was located 113 kilometers south o...

QCOSTARICA – Pital de San Carlos will open the country’s first mega-field of multicolored sunflowers starting tomorrow, with an exhibition of more than 130 thousand sunflowers of different types, with varieties of colors and sizes, includ...

Have you spent the last year dreaming of an overseas escape? Well, they’re hopefully back on the horizon as the tourism sector slowly picks itself back up and dusts itself off. Costa Rica, of course, was one country hit by the decline in tourism an...

QCOSTARICA – Owing to the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) or Caja is not a good place to be, as it may limit one’s ability to obtain prompt medical services and debt accumulates rapidly with the addition of fines, surcharges, a...

Cell phones are a fully integrated part of our lives, and that isn’t going to change anytime soon. They bring a range of obvious benefits, but data usage can be a big issue. Some apps even guzzle data in the background and then, completely without ...

HQ – The faulting in the crust of the Caribbean plate was the origin of a strong earthquake that shook the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) Tuesday afternoon, minutes before 6:00 pm. This according to the National Seismological Network (RSN), wh...

QCOSTARICA – If the rhythm in the arrival of doses against Covid-19 is maintained, or accelerates, which is expected, the Minister of Health, Daniel Salas, projected that Costa Rica would reach herd immunity in the last quarter of this year, th...

QCOSTARICA – Fuel prices in Costa Rica has very high, close to the historical record from seven years ago, when Costa Ricans paid ¢816 per liter of super gasoline, according to data from the Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo (Recope), Cost...

Q24N – The death rate from COVID-19 in the U.S. is rising steadily for the first time in months as the nation grapples with a renewed burst of cases in what’s become “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” the head of the Centers fo...