QCOSTARICA — Marriages in Costa Rica began to have an upturn after the pandemic, growing steadily in the following four years. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos – INEC), marriages in the first half of 2024 reached nearly 11,000, […]
Monthly Archives: February 2025
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In a joint effort to strengthen migration management in the region, the ministers of Public Security of Panama and Costa Rica, Frank Alexis Abrego and Mario Zamora, held a meeting in Costa Rica to analyze and optimize migratory flows. During the meeting, which aimed to establish effective mechanisms to allow […]
QCOSTARICA — With a change of 3 points since last year, Costa Rica has a score of 58 this year in the most recent measurement of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by Transparency.org. According to the results, it occupies position 42 among 180 countries scored around the world, placing itself […]
One of the most interesting elements of new tech is that we can never entirely predict how it will get used. Even the Internet itself started out as simply an academic file-sharing platform, evolving in leaps and bounds over time to become what we know now. On that note, here […]
Last Saturday, another Goya Awards ceremony took place in Granada, Spain, the most important awards in Spanish cinema. These awards have been given by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain since 1987. Eva Valiño, who has a history with Costa Rica, became one of the winners of […]
QCOSTARICA — The revisión técnica vehicular (RTV) – vehicle technical inspection – will have to wait until the second quarter of the year to know which company will provide the service since the Comptroller General accepted the appeals filed by Dekra, the current concessionaire. The procedure, which was on hold […]
QCOSTARICA — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that, in the last five years, more than 800 Costa Ricans have been expelled from the United States and returned to Costa Rica, while around 2,000 face the risk of deportation. In 2020, during the first administration of Donald Trump, 130 Costa […]
The global economic market trend analysis firm STATISTA estimates that between 2025 and 2032, surf tourism will grow at an average annual rate of 6%. In 2022, the global surf tourism market was valued at $9.5 billion, and forecasts predict that by 2032, it will grow to $17.1 billion. “This […]
Costa Rica has had a visiting queen this week. Mathilde of Belgium, Queen Consort of the Belgians, is making her first trip to a Latin American country. She is doing so as honorary president of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in her country. The agenda focuses on learning about the […]
Costa Rica ranks 52nd in the 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), published by Transparency International. The country moved up three positions compared to last year’s ranking and obtained a score of 58/100. The CPI is the most widely used global corruption ranking in the world. It measures how corrupt each […]