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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 220 | |||||||||
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planned for next Sunday By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Thursday is Veterans Day, but one memorial service will be held Sunday. Pastor Stacy Steck of the Escazú Christian Fellowship, which meets at the International Baptist Church in Guachipelin, Escazú, reports that his congregation will hold a ceremony at 5 p.m. Sunday in partnership with The American Legion Post 10 and the Costa Rica detachment of the Marine Corp League. In addition to the U.S. Veterans Day ceremony, the congregation will mark Remembrance Day, which is celebrated in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations. Ambassadors from the British, Canadian and U. S. embassies will place wreaths and speak at the ceremony. Bugler Philip Barman and bagpiper Kevin Ludic will participate in the ceremony. The ceremony is open to all and everyone is cordially invited to attend, said the Legion. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the ceremony. For directions to the International Baptist Church there is a map at the Fellowship's website www.ecfcr.net. Or those interested can call Pastor Steck at 8395-9563. Our readers' opinions
How can we help thosewho suffered from floods? Dear A.M. Costa Rica: My name is Phillip Steward and I am living here in Costa Rica. There are many reason I love this place so much but the biggest reason is the people. The Costa Rican people are the greatest people I have had the pleasure of meeting. I have traveled all over the world and have chosen to retire here. I guess what I am saying is that I love it here and there are many Americans feel the same way. I think that now is a good time to show appreciation to the people here. I do not know how to do this, and I am hoping that one of your staff or maybe a reader would be willing to help me. What I am suggesting is that every American in Costa Rica donates $50 or more to help the people who are going through this terrible flood. If we somehow can get this set up and make sure the money goes to the right place, I will be the first to donate. Someone please help me make this happen, and give something to the country we live in. Phillip R Steward
Turrialba EDITOR'S NOTE: Our Friday edition contains bank numbers for the national emergency commission and the Cruz Roja. In addition, there are collection centers where food and other items are accepted, including Cruz Roja centers, and collections are being made all over the country by several organizations. Don't expect First World when you are living here Dear A.M. Costa Rica: For these five years I have been reading the "Letters to the Editor," mostly sent from U.S. expats living here. Being one myself have two observations to make: (1) Most of the letters are accurate in their complaints about the inefficiency of any government operation in Costa Rica. However, it is all preaching to the choir, is it not? Or does A.M. Costa Rica send out those letters to the Costa Rican newspapers or a government office? (2) My second observation is to those carpers:"What do you expect in this country with one foot in the Third World and the other on the "developing" ladder? If you want efficiency, organization, good TV, Internet, regulation, police control, traffic regulations that are observed, et al, you should go live in the U.S., England, or Germany. But such societal development is hardly expected in this country. ALSO, are we expats not here because those are the things we wanted to get away from? So why the constant run of complaints? Alfred Stites
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| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Vol. 10, No. 220 | |||||||||
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Reeling from what President Laura Chinchilla calls the worst natural disaster in 14 years, the country finds itself today with major highways out of service, towns cut off and perhaps as many as 3,000 persons homeless. Ms. Chinchilla vowed in a television speech that the No. 1 priority would be to save lives. The second priority is to get food and necessities to those who are stranded. Among those location is the tourist town of Nosara on the Nicoya Peninsula, Both routes to it and nearby Ostional cannot be traveled, and residents are keeping track of their water and food. Even Costa Ricans who are not cut off might have problems with water. Several major lines have been knocked out and some 12 water plants operated by the Instituto Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados has damage in one form or another. Ciudad Colón and Alajuelita are among the locations having water problems because of supply issues. Both the Interamericana Sur and the Costanera Sur suffered damage that prevents vehicular travel. Guatemala, Colombia and Panamá are providing aid. A C-130 transport plane from Colombia carried 16,300 liters of water to Liberia Saturday. Other flights went south. The security ministry's Caribou aircraft brought 700 meals to Nosara and Ostional. A helicopter from Panamá also brought food there. Other food flights went to Pérez Zeledón and Ciudad Cortés. Acosta in the hills above San José also is cut off and receiving emergency helicopter deliveries. The national emergency commission estimated that 12,000 families remain isolated by bad roads or flooding. Emergency crews were able to reach 19 formerly isolated communities Sunday. The Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes said that 60 crews were at work clearing highways. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad said less than 1,000 customers remain without power. Service has been restored to nearly 1,500. Some 59 public shelters still are in operation with perhaps 3,750 persons staying there. As expected Ms. Chinchilla issued a decree of national emergency which allows faster use of public money to help storm victims. She put Vice President Luis Liberman in charge of all the rescue and relief efforts. The former Tropical Storm Tomas that helped provide so much devastation to Costa Rica is now well north of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Maximum sustained winds are 60 mph or 95 kph, and the storm center is expected to turn east and head out to the north Atlantic. |
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water and other supplies.The largest single tragedy was at San Antonio de Escazú where residents died in their sleep early Thursday when a mountainside gave way. Rescue workers found three more bodies there over the weekend, bringing the total to 23, and they suspect they will find the last body today. There were reports of many more missing, but police and rescue workers managed to locate a number of individuals thought buried. One man believed missing really was at work clearing the debris from the tragedy. In another case, a relative came and helped one family move just hours before the mountainside came down. They lost their home, but there were no deaths or injuries in that family. They were found living with relatives. The interruption of transportation, the flooding of cropland and other storm impacts will have major economic consequences for the country. At least nine bridges are down or in need of emergency repair. A bridge at Londres over the Río Naranjo on the central Pacific coast is still up but restricted to foot traffic. Residents there blame the flooding on a single culvert that has not been maintained properly. There probably will be much more finger pointing as residents recover from the brunt of the storm. Clear weather in much of the country Sunday helped the relief effort. |
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By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Sala III high criminal court has thrown out the conviction of a Nosara man accused in a murder there. The court ordered a new trial. The suspect, identified by the last names of Sirias Sequerira, had been detained shortly after the April 18, 2009, murder of a man identified as Michael Eduardo Rojas Murillo, 23, of Matapalo de Abangares. The murder happened near the Nosara airport because residents said they heard a shot. But the body was dumped about 10 kms (6 miles) away. |
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known each other and had been on
friendly terms. The suspect was jailed for preventative detention shortly after the crime, and the Sala III ordered that his detention continue until the new trial is held. The victim was believed shot in the head while sitting in a car, and the driver led police on a chase until he dumped the body, they said at the time. The trial court gave Sirias 18 years, but that sentence was overturned on a motion from the defense lawyer. |
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José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States, spent the weekend being very diplomatic. He arrived in Costa Rica Friday and met with President Laura Chinchilla and others. Then he was off to Nicaragua where he toured by military aircraft the disputed area at the mouth of the Río San Juan. Sunday he was back in Costa Rica meeting with René Castro, the Costa Rican foreign minister. Insulza plans to take a look at the river mouth from the Costa Rican side today. He will fly. The secretary general's visit comes after Costa Rica complained to the hemispheric body about the intrusion of Nicaraguan troops into its soil. Meanwhile Google Maps has refused to take the blame for any geographical misunderstandings. The company said any inexactitudes in its maps would be the fault of third parties who provided the material and that despite its efforts to achieve accuracy no one should use Google Maps to decide military actions between nations. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his representative at the river mouth, Eden Pastora, have been citing Google Maps as a source for their claim against Costa Rican soil. Daniel Helft, a Google Maps executive, said the firm was trying to correct the map as quickly as possible. His e-mail message was released by the foreign ministry. Nevertheless, Nicaraguan officials are coming up with reasons why the disputed Isla Calero is Nicaraguan soil. In fact, they reject the term Isla Calero and cite the treaties that have defined the national border for more than 100 years. Insulza and Ortega agreed at a brief airport meeting Sunday that more boundary markers should be put in. |
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along the Costa Rican border have said that Nicaraguan
soldiers uprooted boundary markers as they invaded the island. Insulza said that Tuesday he would deliver his report to the organization's Permanent Council so he should not be asked about his conclusions. The Nicaraguan newspapers appear to be following the lead of the government. La Prensa Sunday quotes Roberto Canjina, said to be a security expert, who claims that Costa Rica has expansionist tendencies. The newspaper also published a lengthy article on José María Tijerino, Costa Rica's security minister, and his childhood in Chinandega, Nicaragua. His father was Nicaraguan and his mother a Tica. Another article repeats the government's geographic claims without attribution. Ms. Chinchilla said over the weekend that the country reserves the right to take the matter to the United Nations if there is no just settlement. Pastora, the former guerrilla commander who had his civil war headquarters in nearby Barra del Colorado, was overhead on the marine radio admitting that the land involved was Costa Rican. He is in charge of a dredging operation there. But rather than a simply removal of sediment, the plan appears to be to punch a new mouth to the Caribbean through land Costa Rican claims. The plan appears to be to create better access to the river to benefit tourism projects. The land involved has been basically unused by Costa Rica. The owner is the Ministerio de Ambiente, Energía y Telecomunicaciones, and it is leased to a cattle rancher. |
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bottleneck bridge headed for scrap heap By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Workmen using a crane will begin to dismantle the former railroad bridge that has been used for motor vehicles in Parrita. The one-lane bridge has been replaced by a modern structure, and now transport officials are closing the road several hours at a time while a crane takes away parts of the bridge. The work was to start at 4:30 a.m. today and continue until 6 a.m. The crane is working from the parallel new bridge. Workmen were to open the new span to traffic from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and then close it again for two hours so the crane could do more work on the metal bridge. The bridge was supposed to be open to traffic from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Workmen leave the job at 4:30 p.m. The Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes said that pedestrians, individuals on bikes and those on motorcycles can use the bike path on the new bridge while work is going on. The ministry said workmen are taking their time to avoid any damage to the new bridge. The route is part of the Costanera Sur. New numbers authorized for telecom providers By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
With new telecom providers entering the market, the telecom regulator has expanded the various service numbers from three digits to four. In most cases the number 0 has been placed within the existing three numbers. Not being changed is 911 the emergency number and 112 which also is used to report emergencies, said the agency, the Authoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos.. However, numbers like 126 to report electrical outages to the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad now becomes 1026 and the telephone outage number is now 1119 instead of 118. The new numbers go into service Jan. 11, and the existing telecom provider will be making public service announcements of the new numbers. |
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