 |
 |
Your daily |
 |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
|
|
| A.M. Costa Rica Second newspage |
 |
||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| San José, Costa Rica, Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, Vol. 9, No. 226 | |||||||||
 |
| Costa Rica Expertise Ltd http://crexpertise.com E-mail info@crexpertise.com Tel:506-256-8585 Fax:506-256-7575 |
 |
Click HERE for
great
hotel discounts
|
|
Soccer game in
Uruguay
is the last chance left By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The country's star-crossed soccer team is off to Uruguay for a game Wednesday that is their last chance to get a World Cup berth. Things have not gone well for the Tico squad, which was riding high half way through the World Cup qualifying rounds. A tying goal in the last seconds by the United States team cost the Ticos the third of three spots for World Cup play from the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football. The first meeting with Uruguay Saturday was a chance to regain the lost inertia. But the manager, Rene Simoes, was not allowed to participate due to some bad manners in the Oct. 14 game against the United States. Uruguay scored a first-half goal and managed to hold off the Costa Rica offense for the rest of the encounter. To add insult to injury, the Tico Squad played out the game one man short because Randall Azofeifa was ejected after getting a second yellow card. 172 finish La Ruta bike race By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Some 172 bicyclists were finishers in the Ruta de los Conquistadores four day cross-country race. The overall winner of the 17th edition of the race Saturday was Manuel Prado. Much of the race took place in rainy weather. In addition the Federación Costarricense de Ciclismo backballed the race because organizers did not adhere to federation rules. La Ruta organizers issued a statement after the race ended saying that the event was independent. The federation position did not seem to cut in to the participation much. Organizers only had 200 slots to fill. Dispute over espionage causes Perú-Chile rift By
the A.M. Costa Rica wire services
Peru has canceled planned talks with Chile at an Asia-Pacific summit over an espionage dispute. Peru's foreign minister, Jose Garcia Belaunde, says President Alan Garcia was leaving the meeting in Singapore, following the recall of Peru's envoy to Chile over charges a Peruvian military officer has been spying for Chile. Garcia and his Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet had been scheduled to meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Peruvian officials say they are returning to Lima to investigate the charges against the air force officer who was arrested several days ago. Our reader's opinion
Realistic toy weaponsmake world more difficult Dear A.M. Costa Rica: Toys for Violence! Take a look at the Kapowwe Toy Company's Web page at www.kapowwe.com. This Texas company's line of realistic looking and feeling toy weapons are just the thing for the season of peace and joy, or any other time, to give the kids a true sense of violence, aggression and terror. As if kids don't get enough violence from television, cartoons, video games and movies they can now upgrade their play by pretending to massacre their playmates, classmates, teachers and even parents and siblings. Imagine playing terrorist, narco king or assassin with one of these truly realistic looking toy weapons. It's no longer a simple game of pointing a finger and yelling “kapow.” These toys give it the genuine touch. So real looking and feeling are these firearms that real crooks, criminals and terrorists can use them in their jobs. So hard to distinguish from the real thing that they will confuse even the most discerning police, FBI agent or Homeland Security rep who then may mistakenly use a real gun in self defense. (Oooops, sorry, Sonny) With such realistic looking toy guns, the kids can get right in the mood for mowing down enemies real or imagined that they'll never consider peaceful solutions. Let them learn that power comes from having a gun, even if it's a toy one. Just think of what they can all do with one of these toys. Take candy from babies and money from kids or rob a store or house. Wowwe, kapowwe! For those of us trying to teach peace, human rights, love your neighbor and thou shall't not kill, the Kapowwe company and others that make and market make believe murder have made our world a more difficult and dangerous place. Olive
Branch
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
| A.M. Costa Rica third newspage |
 |
||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
|
|
|||||||||
|
Country gears up
for payment of the marchamo road tax
|
|
|
By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
It's time to dig down for the road tax. The Instituto Nacional de Seguros has activated its Web page where motorists can find out how much they owe. The amount is based on the fiscal value of the vehicle. The Web page is HERE. The insurance institute is involved because 22 percent of the amount is for the obligatory motor vehicle insurance. Starting Jan. 1, the coverage will be 6 million colons, about $10,600. In special grave cases or when the accident victim is under 13 years and has no other medical insurance, the amount can be double. Most expats also purchase additional insurance either through the institute or agencies around the country. The biggest chunk of the marchamo, as the road tax is called, goes to the Ministerio de Hacienda. That's about 60 percent of the total. There are additional fees and assessments in the marchamo, including less than 1 percent for the Cuerpo de Bomberos, the firemen. There also is about 5 percent for various stamps and local taxes. Residents can pay the marchamo at the offices of the institute or at a number of banks, insurance agencies and even supermarkets. The deadline is Dec. 31. |
 Marchamo
lookup is protected by one of those codes.
Typically some of the private downtown banks have no lines, and Promerica even has held raffles for those who pay the marchamo there. Penalties for being late are steep. The key identifying factor is the vehicle's license plate. The bad news is that unpaid traffic tickets also can be assessed with the marchamo. Frequently mistakes are made and the process to remove erroneous fines can be another nightmare. Unpaid tickets and other paperwork problems can be seen when the license plate or place is run through the marchamo Web page. |
Urban search and rescue members confronted rubble in this simulation in Panamá. |
 Comisión
Nacional de Prevención de
Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias photo
|
|
Rescue agencies
will train for major earthquake all week
|
|
|
By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Costa Rica's rescue agencies will be training from today through Friday in order to handle a major earthquake. The scenario is that a major quake hits the Cartago area, and a large building collapses with loss of life. The training comes just three days after a 5.1 quake took place in the hills northeast of Parrita. Some have attributed a landslide in San Vito de Coto Brus about an hour later to effects of the quake. A schoolgirl, Yuliana Sandoval Ramírez, 15, died in the slide. Any relationship probably will never be known for sure, but local officials noted the area had had heavy rains. |
The simulation in Cartago will
include victims trapped in the ruins of
the collapsed building, said the Comisión Nacional de
Prevención de
Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias. The operation is being
financed by
the Office of Emergency Disaster Assistance of the U.S. Agency for
International Development. Participating will be experts from Urban Search and Rescue-CR. Members will have the job of entering the damaged structure, said the commission. The activities will be graded by observers. Tuesday the exercise will include evacuating various Cartago schools to evaluate the response, said the commission. All of the country's emergency response agencies will be participating. |
 |
| You need to see Costa Rican tourism information HERE! |
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
|
| A.M. Costa Rica fourth news page |
 |
||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
|
|
|||||||||
 |
|
|
For your international reading pleasure: News of Nicaragua News of Central America News of Cuba News of Venezuela News of Colombia News of El Salvador News of Panamá |
| Four
caught after home invasion and robbery in Sámara |
||
|
By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Four men invaded the home of a woman in Sámara Sunday and held her at gunpoint, said the Fuerza Pública. The men escaped with $300 and 200,000 in colons, about $354. Police managed to capture four suspects in Liberia and said that they found credit cards that belonged to the victim within the vehicle. They also said they confiscated a .38-caliber and a 9-mm firearm. Two of the men appeared to be brothers because they both |
had the last names
of Álvarez Jiménez. Another man had the last
names of Badilla Alvarado, and the fourth had the names of
Jiménez
Hidalgo. There was no report if the woman suffered injuries. Samara has seen an increase in such home invasions in the last two years, in part because it is connected with Nicoya and other major communities with a hard-surfaced road. Several robbery gangs are believed working the area. Bandits murdered a Dutch expat in his home in April. That took place in San Martín de Santa Teresa de Cóbano on the Pacific side of the tip of the Nicoya Peninsula. That's further south than Sámara. |
|
| Weather
experts promise drier air and less precipitation |
||
|
By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
Despite some heavy rain in the central Pacific, the south Pacific and mountains around the Central Valley, the weather experts have some good news. The Instituto Meteorológico Nacional said that there is an increase in the intensity of the winds with a reduction of the relative humidity over the country. That means a prediction of a significant decrease in rain mainly in the north Pacific, the Central Valley and the Caribbean coast. However, there is a warning of morning fog and rain of variable intensity in the evenings in the central and south Pacific. Most Central Valley temperatures continue to be in the teens over night with readings in the low 20s on the coast. That equates to a temperature of 63 on the Fahrenheit scale for the Central Valley from Alajuela to Cartago. Coastal lows were around 72 F early today. |
Earlier in the
day, the weather institute expressed concern for areas
prone to landslides because of the saturated ground. That
includes Zurquí, Cinchona and Orosi. Cinchona where the major
earthquake
left
large scars in the hillsides Jan. 8 is particularly prone to slides. The U.S. National Hurricane Center reported that there were no depressions of note in either the Atlantic or the eastern Pacific. The tropics are just two weeks away from the end of the 2009 hurricane season, although Mother Nature does not adhere closely to a calendar. The end of the hurricane season in the Atlantic coincides with the change in the weather in the Central Valley as strong north winds continue to build to drive out the moisture. This is the beginning of the dry season, which is expected to arrive early this year. Guanacaste already is experiencing the change. The transition works its way south over about four weeks. |
|
 |
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
| A.M. Costa Rica fifth news page |
|
||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| San José, Costa Rica, Monday Nov. 16, 2009, Vol. 9, No. 226 | |||||||||
 |
 |
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
| A.M. Costa Rica sixth news page |
|||||||||
| Home |
Tourism |
Calendar |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
|||||
|
|
|||||||||
Latin American news Please reload page if feed does not appear promptly |
Zelaya says
he's president, despite absence of accord By
the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The interim government of Honduras seems to have outwitted the ousted president and provoked him to a political corner. Saturday the ousted president, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, said he had sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama. The letter seemed to say that Zelaya did not want to return to the presidency, and that is how some news organizations framed it. However, Sunday Zelaya told a reporter from Diario la Prensa of San Pedro Sula that he would continue to be president until his term expires Jan. 27. He said he was rejecting any deal with the interim government but not his claim to power. Zelaya declined to sign on to a U.S. brokered deal that would let him return to the presidency as the figurehead in a coalition government. In his letter, he was critical of the deal and of Thomas Shannon, the U.S. State Department envoy who helped negotiators reach the accord. The United States has said it would recognize the results of the Nov. 29 elections. Panamá has said it would, too. Neither Zelaya nor Roberto Micheletti are candidates. After the June 28 coup, the U.S. said that Zelaya would have to be reinstated for the elections to be accepted by other nations. Zelaya has been a guest in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa since Sept. 21 when he returned secretly to Honduras. Zelaya has been provoked into inconsistencies before. He showed up at the Honduran border and stepped across it and then stepped back. The meaning of that exercise was not clear. The U.S. brokered accord also has been fractured because the Honduran congress has declined to vote to accept it. |
| Latin
American news feeds are disabled on archived pages.
|
|
| Home |
Tourism |
Place
classified ad |
Classifieds |
Entertainment |
Real
estate |
Rentals |
Sports |
About
us |
|
| What we published this week: | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Earlier |
| The contents of this page and this Web site are copyrighted by Consultantes Río Colorado 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 and may not be reproduced anywhere without permission. Abstracts and fair use are permitted. Check HERE for details | ||||||
