Q Costa Rica

QREPORTS (Elfaro.net) In the last year and a half, a wave of homicides spurred by drug trafficking has brought Costa Rica to the international headlines that for years seemed reserved for northern Central America. The 907 homicides registered in 2023 in a country of 5.1 million, a 37% increase in […]

PURA VIDA (CNBC.com) Kema Ward-Hopper never imagined she’d raise her children in the middle of a jungle. But in 2018, after Hurricane Harvey destroyed her Houston home, a trip to Costa Rica with her husband Nicholas Hopper and then 9-year-old daughter Aaralyn became a permanent move. We live better in […]

QCOSTARICA — Various Tik Toker and influencer platforms or YouTube videos serve to show how to get rich without much effort and that is why an alert was published to investors by the Superintendencia General de Valores (Sugeval) – General Superintendence of Securities. Be well informed so that you do […]

QCOSTARICA — Fashion Week shows in Europe are becoming a regular stop for Karina Ramos, a Costa Rican TV Host, businesswoman, model, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Costa Rica 2014 and represented the country at Miss Universe 2014. Karina is widely known in Mexico for her carefully […]

QCOSTARICA — Costa Rica’s immigration service, the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería (DGME) reported the denial of entry to the country of more than 3,100 foreigners, at the different border points, during January of this year. According to the immigration data, the majority of these rejections occurred in the […]

QCOSTARICA — On Sunday, April 9, 2023, a girl who had just graduated from school was walking alone down the street in a mountainous town in Cartago, when a man with his face covered quickly passed by and snatched what looked like a doll from her arms, but the scene […]

QCOSTARICA (Confidencial) On Friday, February 16, Costa Rican authorities extradited Douglas Perez to Nicaragua. Perez, known as Douglas Alvarez or by his alias “Relámpago” (“Lightning”) is a former member of the “contra”, or Nicaraguan Resistance, and one of two opposition figures wanted by the Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime. Handing over […]

Q TRAVEL (Forbes.com) With its strong tourism infrastructure and welcoming people, Costa Rica serves as an ideal sanctuary for female solo travelers who flock here to experience all that this Central American country has to offer. Solo travel retreats often center around individuals searching for an enlightened approach to their […]

Q REPORTS (Thetyee.ca) —  Last spring, when Elida Peña Pomares got the invitation to fight forest fires in Canada, the first question from the team co-ordinator was whether she had a passport. She didn’t. At 35 she had never been on an airplane. She had never left Costa Rica, where […]

QCOSTARICA — Two treasury employees have been suspended from their duties at the Banco Nacional (BN) branch in Ciudad Quesada, San Carlos after money was found missing during a surprise count. Both were criminally reported to the Public Ministry. – Advertisement – Telenoticias reported this morning that the State bank […]