The BN Valores stock exchange’s economic outlook report for 2025 offers a view of how the economy will behave, both globally and in Costa Rica. Javier Cortés, economist and strategist at BN Valores, explains what this means and how it could impact the country’s daily economic life: National Outlook In […]
Yearly Archives: 2025
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With the return to functions in the public sector, this Monday, January 6, the Road Safety Council (COSEVI) recalled the need to make an appointment on the website www.csv.go.cr, for the procedures for the return of vehicles and license plates seized during the end-of-year and beginning-of-year recess. As has been […]
Although Costa Rica is committed to protecting wildlife, unscrupulous individuals continue to violate the rules and insist on keeping wild animals as pets. The National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) rescued a white-faced monkey that was held in captivity in Jacó. The animal was tied with a chain around its […]
Costa Rica showed its support for Venezuelan opposition politician Edmundo González Urrutia, who has claimed victory in the Venezuelan presidential elections since July 28. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arnoldo André, participated in an audience granted by the President of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, to Edmundo González Urrutia at the […]
The start of 2025 has been marked by a drop in the exchange rate. On Monday, the average worth of each dollar hit ¢508.82, while on Tuesday it was ¢507.98. In the meantime, on Wednesday, January 8, the value of each dollar fell once more to ¢505.98. Based on information […]
QCOSTARICA — Taxi drivers in Costa Rica are seeing the writing on the wall, their existence in the country will be none in the next five years. That is to say the red taxis will disappear by 2030 if the playing field is not leveled with digital platforms such as […]
QCOSTARICA — While legendary former NBA star Michael Jordan vacations in our country, Costa Rica’s Maikol Yordan returned with a message to people “to pursue their dreams, “Maikol Yordan Regresa a Clases” (Maikol Yordan Returns to Classes)”, a production by La Media Docena comedy troupe, premiered in the country’s theaters […]
To monitor cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) in the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) launched an interactive dashboard on the web today. The page presents tables and maps showing outbreaks in humans, domestic birds, wild birds and mammals in the area, the latter with data obtained from […]
The railway service that connects San José with Cartago will be available again starting next week, according to Álvaro Bermúdez, executive president of the Costa Rican Railway Institute (Incofer). This reopening marks the end of a suspension that lasted more than two months due to a landslide in the El […]
The play “Cosquillitas”, thanks to which Marian Li received the Ricardo Fernández Guardia National Theater Award in the Acting category 2023, will represent Costa Rica at the Mujeres que Cuentan International Festival in Mar del Plata, Argentina in March 2025 and at the Casa Tanicho International Monologue Festival in Mérida, […]