Electric Vehicles

ICE to start charging at fast-charging stations for electric cars

Rico - 20 April 2021

QCOSTARICA - The honeymoon of free charges at Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) fast-charging stations is over for owners of electric car, as they...

Health

Costa Rica’s Minister of Health first to be vaccinated with Astra Zeneca vaccine

National

Pacific and Central Valley will have intense downpours Pacific and Central Valley will have intense downpours at the beginning of the week

National

Bad weather claimed two lives: one in Talamanca and another in Garabito

Front Page

Editorial: A national joke

News

Carlos Alvarado: “If we don’t give stability to the economy, everything will go to hell”

Culture

Key Largo: From Brothel to Cultural Center

Caribbean Coast

Storm forces evacuations, flooding and emergency calls and more than 120 incidents in Caribbean and Central Valley

Breaking

Vehicle restrictions back this weekend!

National

No One Claims Responsibility To Repair Bridge Over Ruta 27

Security

New surveillance cameras seek to reduce assaults on the General Cañas

Redaqted

KLM announces reactivation of flights to Costa Rica starting June 29

National

Downpours Continue In the Caribbean

Limon

Ruta 32 closed again, third night in a row!

Farandula

Former Miss Costa Rica detained at San Jose airport on suspicion of false covid test

Health

Heredia Hospital enables vaccination to speed up campaign against covid-19

HQ

Woman crashes head-on with tanker truck. Did she foresee her own death?

Ruta 32 (San Jose – Limon) CLOSED to 5am Friday!

HQ Rico - 15 April 2021

QCOSTARICA - The Ruta 32, which connects San José with Limón, will be closed from 6:00 pm from this Thursday until Friday 5:00 am...

TEC students create autonomous vehicle prototype for multiple uses

Electric Vehicles Q Costa Rica - 12 April 2021

HQ - A group of four TEC - Costa Rica Institute of Technology - students created an autonomous vehicle to transport people, parcels, or...

Couple used fast food delivery services to hide sales of marijuana pastries

HQ Rico - 10 April 2021

HQ - A couple was arrested on suspicion of using fast food delivery services to deliver marijuana pastries sold in the Greater Metropolitan Area...

Fire devours plastics warehouse in Alajuela

Alajuela Rico - 8 April 2021

QCOSTARICA - A large fire in a plastics warehouse in Alajuela has firefighters working since the early hours of this Thursday, April 8. The alarm...

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Culture

Key Largo: From Brothel to Cultural Center

Rico - 16 April 2021

QCOSTARICA - The building that housed the Key Largo adult entertainment center, in the heart of San José, will have a new facet: it...

Culture

April 11 Holiday WILL NOT Move To Monday

Pura Vida

Netflix to premiere Attenborough documentary filmed in Costa Rica

Pura Vida

Dino on the loose in San Jose!

LIGHTER SIDE OF COSTA RICA

It wasn’t me… it was the Aresep.

Gas hike could be at the pumps this week

Costa Rica COVID-19 Statistics

230,837

Total confirmed cases

Updated on 20 April 2021 4:04 pm

3,099

Total deaths

Updated on 20 April 2021 4:04 pm

197,842

Total recovered

Updated on 20 April 2021 4:04 pm

Vaccination statistics

Health

Today’s coronavirus news: ICUs overloaded, occupancy for critically ill with covid-19 reaches 85%

3,157 new cases confirmed in 3 days!

Costa Rica exceeds one million vaccines received against COVID-19

The Pandemic: Epidemiological report April 13, 2021

CCSS has applied 587 thousand vaccines against COVID-19

What is mRNA? The messenger molecule that’s been in every living cell for billions of years is the key ingredient in some COVID-19 vaccines

Coronavirus

India Overtakes Brazil as Second Worst-Hit Country by COVID-19

Coronavirus

Brazilian variant of coronavirus detected in Costa Rica

Coronavirus

Pfizer says Covid-19 vaccine protection lasts at least six months, protects against variants

Coronavirus

Is it for Real? Odd Video of Tiny Protective Masks for the Nose Puzzles Netizens

Chile

The Chilean contradiction: Why doesn’t the success of the vaccination stop the pandemic?

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BLOGS & OPINION

Carlos Alvarado: “If we don’t give stability to the economy, everything will go to hell”

News 16 April 2021

What to know about “border runs” starting from today

Living in Costa Rica 5 April 2021

In Costa Rica, Beware of Gringo Neophyte ‘Experts’

Christopher Howard's Live in Costa Rica 22 March 2021

Costa Rica doesn’t change the time

HQ 14 March 2021

Tourism entrepreneurs should coddle local tourists, not scare them away

Editorial 13 March 2021

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Latin America

A Cuba Without a Castro? A Country Steps Into the Unknown.

Q REPORTS (NY Times) When Raúl Castro retired as Cuba’s top leader Monday, he...

The Americas

What inspired digital nomads to flee America’s big cities may spur legions of remote workers to do the same

Q REPORTS - If one thing is clear about remote work, it’s this: Many...

Latin America

Bolsonaro’s ‘genocidal’ Covid response has led to Brazilian catastrophe, Dilma Rousseff says

Q REPORTS (TheGuardian) Jair Bolsonaro’s perverse and “genocidal” response to one of the world’s...

Cuba

President Miguel Díaz-Canel is the new leader of the Communist Party of Cuba after the departure of Raúl Castro

Q24N (La Habana) Cuba turned the page on the governments of the Castro brothers,...

LATIN AMERICA

Colombia

Sexual activity in Colombia also took its toll due to the pandemic

Nicaragua

Nicaragua to renew electoral tribunal, amid claims for impartiality

Brazil

Bolsonaro compares quarantines to Maduro’s dictatorship

Nicaragua

Order and tranquility, this is how voluntary vaccination against Covid-19 is developed in Nicaragua

Redaqted

KLM announces reactivation of flights to Costa Rica starting June 29

QCOSTARICA - KLM announced, this Monday, April 19, that it will reactivate its flights...

TRAVEL

Redaqted

Frontier resumes direct flights to Costa Rica from Miami and Orlando

Travel

Avianca to fly direct San José and Miami starting July 1

News

Immigration alerts about possible delay in airport procedures this Saturday

Redaqted

Costa Rica to sign up “Influencers” to promote tourism

Living in Costa Rica

What to know about “border runs” starting from today

RICO's TICO BULL - Today, Monday, April 5, Costa Rica opened its land borders...

EXPAT FOCUS

Christopher Howard's Live in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, Beware of Gringo Neophyte ‘Experts’

Expat Focus

Extension of driving priviliges for tourists has not happened yet

Living in Costa Rica

Drivers can use foreign license for 6 more months

Expat Focus

Best Places to Retire in Latin America in 2021 — InternationalLiving.com

PHOTOS OF COSTA RICA

San Jose as seen from Cartago

The capital seen from the north of Cartago. Photo: Rafael Pacheco

Tárcoles, Costa Rica

Tárcoles, Costa Rica. Photo by Joaquin Murillo Photography.

Arenal Volcano at sunrise

Sometimes Mother Nature rewards us with unique moments and wonderful scenes ... Arenal Volcano,...

Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste

Sunrise with a full moon in Playa Hermosa. Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Photo by Joaquin Murillo...

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Farandula

Alejandra Guzmán: “I am a devastated mother, I have never experienced something so ugly”

20 April 2021

Farandula

Former Miss Costa Rica detained at San Jose airport on suspicion of false covid test

16 April 2021

Farandula

Miss Universe 2014 has a great time in Costa Rica

13 April 2021

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