Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - The Legislative Assembly has approved the creation of a Bank Trust (Spanish: Fidecomiso) for US$473 million to finance construction of the route from San José to San Ramon. This is the same route the previous administration awarded the concession contract and later rescinded, to the Brazilian company OAS. The...

QCOSTARICA - From 1983 to 2013, on average some 460 girls under the age of 15 give birth in Costa Rica. This based on data by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos - INEC). While in 1983 the number of births to girls...

QCOSTARICA - It was a few minutes to 9:00pm when the alarm was called, a fire at the Hotel Principal, in the heart of downtown San José. The fire completely consumed the second floor of the building located on Avenida 3 and Calle 10, in front of the Borbón market,...