Archive for September 4th, 2009
Friday, September 4th, 2009
In some part of your life, I’m sure you would experienced the pain of having to go the dentist to have your teeth checked out, removed, modified, etc. The bills rocket upward to infinity and beyond, insurance companies fail you here and there, even though you’ve paid a lot for their silly premiums and offers. Not to mention the continued risk of a second surgery and such. This terrible condition would leave a lot of people grumbling about their medical bills and often times would find seeing their bill far more painful than pulling their teeth out. Reality bites. Medicine is now more business-oriented than people-oriented.
But due to recent social discoveries by normal, ingenious people; a lot of them have found a very inexpensive way to have your surgery, at a dramatically reduced cost as low as 91% of the overall cost of you having your surgery done in the United States. The miracle answer? Medical tourism! It’s that thing where you go on a vacation for another country with the intention of relaxing, a bit of sightseeing, but most importantly, having your surgery done.
Here’s something cool I’d like to share about this phenomenon. It is not a dream. It’s reality! Really. At a first hand look, it will look like something off a scam book or a modus operandi operation. You visit an exotic place far from your busybody life in the city. Free from the stress of deadlines, evil bosses and the pollution of the city. No rushing, no pushing. It’s your “you” time. You get your “inexpensive” surgery. You rest after wards in a hotel room that would probably have cost you a fortune back home, but here it’s not. It’s living the good life, and living the true vacation,all while healing and recuperating.
The fun part is, you only pay HALF or even only a quarter (heck I kid you not) of what you might originally spend back in your state. Sounds like a scam altogether, right? It would, if not for the millions of other people who take yearly medical trips outside the country. They wouldn’t be doing that if they’re not satisfied, or if the cost is too expensive, right?
It’s fairly unbelievable. Drastic and exaggerated in some cases. But numbers certainly do not lie. Nor do eyewitness accounts. You can personally see that, yes, you will save money. A large sum of it actually. If you travel outside the country and take your vacation. Quell your thoughts about witch doctor huts, the hospitals outside can rival the facilities we have here. A lot of their doctors have been personally training in the states before doing practice in Costa Rica.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Four people are being held in connection with counterfeit tickets for Saturday’s World Cup qualifier between Costa Rica and Mexico, after police officials reported seizing about 550 fake tickets, prompting football officials to reissue new tickets for the match tomorrow.
Jorge Rojas, director of the Organismo de Investigacion Judicial (OIJ) said on Thursday that two of the people being held are former employees of the company SpecialTicket, that produced the tickets.
Joseph Ramiréz, a top local football official, said attendance on Saturday at Saprissa Stadium will be held at 19,500.
Saturday’s match is crucial to determining which teams reach next year’s 32-team World Cup in South Africa.
Costa Rica leads CONCACAF qualifying with 12 points, but the United States and Honduras are right behind with 10 and Mexico has 9. The top three automatically advance.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
A legislative initiative has been put in motion by Costa Rica’s Poder Ejecutivo to open up the market for production of electricity to both public and private competition. The plan would take control of the market away from ICE (the government run monopoly). Instead it would be placed in the hands of the to be formed, Autoridad Administradora Mercado (AAM). The AAM would establish a “bolsa” (or exchange) where distributors (such as ICE, CNFL and others) could buy energy produced by private and public suppliers at a price that is between a “floor” and “ceiling” set by the AAM.
The country’s largest private industry players could also buy their energy needs directly from this market, as opposed to buying it from the distributors. Distribution of electricity in Costa Rica, however, would continue to remain solely in the hands of ICE and other current regional distributors. If the energy demand of the country were satisfied at any given point, then electrical producers could sell surplus energy on the Mercado Eléctrico Regional (MER), which Costa Rica has been a part of since 1998. Currently the country lacks the regulatory meat for opening the energy production market. This would all change in the form of a Sistema Eléctrico Nacional (SEN). In addition, to bringing the prospect of cheaper energy to the Costa Rican market, it is hoped that by opening the market to private competitors, it will stimulate new innovation in the production of clean and renewable sources.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Ousted Honduras President Jose Manuel Zelaya described being abducted in his pajamas in June and accused his home country’s interim government of violating citizens rights at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs Wednesday morning.
Zelaya spoke to a lecture hall full of ambassadors, Honduran government officials, students and members of the media in Spanish. He gave a detailed account of his forced removal from power, where he was taken from his home at gunpoint and flown to Costa Rica.
“What do I do now in my pajamas? They just turned around, put the steps up, and left,” Zelaya said of being left on the airstrip in Costa Rica.
Zelaya joked about the first report he read on his removal, which a journalist called an “obscene” coup.
“I could say it was obscene,” he said. “[There were] 150 bullets in a metal door at my house.” (more…)
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Costa Rica’s legal watchdog on Thursday cleared a billion-dollar contract the government signed with China to jointly build an oil refinery after it was held up in legal wrangling for months.
The Comptroller’s Office reversed its own earlier ruling in March, when it said an agreement signed in 2008 for the Costa Rican Oil Refinery (RECOPE) to form a joint venture with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) was invalid.
The government of President Oscar Arias, which severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan in 2007 to open ties with China, signed an agreement for the joint venture during the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The Arias administration insisted on the legality of the agreement, and reacted with joy on Thursday when the office cleared the contract.
“This is extraordinary news for the country,” said the president’s brother Rodrigo, who is also head of the cabinet ministers.
The Comptroller’s Office – an independent bureau that monitors government actions to make sure they are within the law – had said the joint venture would have violated the RECOPE’s legal monopoly on oil refining and distribution.
It was not immediately clear under what circumstances the Comptroller’s Office reversed its earlier ruling, but in April the office said the project could proceed only if legislators changed the law.
The agreement includes the creation of a joint venture bi-national company “in charge of developing and putting in operation the project to broaden the Moin refinery, to increase its production to 60,000 barrels a day,” the Comptroller’s Office said in a statement.
The refinery will be built in the town of Moin, on the Caribbean coast, and is expected to dramatically increase the country’s current refining capacity.
The refinery is expected to generate between 1,000 and 1,500 direct jobs, and some 5,000 more jobs indirectly in the province of Limon, according to the government.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Costa Rica’s legislators agreed on fast tracking the amendments to the new Ley de Tránsito that is to take effect on September 23. The application of article 208bis last night limits the number of motions, sessions and words by legislators to get quickly to the voting.
The new traffic law was passed last December and aside from the drunk driving and reckless driving provisions, the full effect of the law, including the new fines, take effect in less than 20 days.
The law in its current state is flawed in many areas, including the technicality of number of clauses that could cause it to be struck down by the Constitutional Court with the first appeal by citizens.
Legislator Andrea Morales made the motion on Wednesday to fast track the amendments. (more…)
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The real estate development firm Caspi International Inc. has begun pre-sales for a new 14-story oceanfront condominium tower in Costa Rica that sets a new standard for high-end real estate in Latin America.The $120 million Genesis Puntarenas, as it will be known, is Costa Rica’s first all-glass multifamily residential building. It will also be home to the world’s largest penthouse, a sprawling 68,459-square-foot, 10-bedroom masterpiece with three stories of living space, a private helipad, swimming pool and tennis court.
The penthouse and the building’s 47 other living units are defined by their floor-to-ceiling retractable glass walls and expansive private all-glass terraces, which will allow homeowners to incorporate the country’s lush landscape into their living space.
“Genesis Puntarenas offers investors the chance to capitalize on one of the hottest real estate markets in the world today — and the surge in ‘ecotourism’— by taking ownership in a truly groundbreaking residential building that is like no other in all of Costa Rica,” said Michael Caspi, president of Caspi International.
The development of this luxurious and distinctively modern building is timed to coincide with a surge of development activity in Costa Rica. According to the U.S. Department of State, roughly 50,000 American citizens, including many retirees, now call Costa Rica home, and more than 700,000 American citizens visit Costa Rica annually.
Genesis Puntarenas is expected to be completed by mid 2010 and will be located in the Pacific Coast city of Puntarenas, about a half-hour drive from the capital city of San Jose via the region’s new six-lane toll road.
Units are priced from $473,000 to $3.3 million and will showcase top-of-the line treatments including marble floors, quartz countertops and brand-name stainless steel appliances. Among other premium amenities, the property will offer residents a bi-level fitness center, an infinity pool with a swim-up bar, as well as an on-site restaurant, lounge, wine cellar, cigar parlor and business center.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The Mexican national team will face a challenging environment on Saturday when playing in Costa Rica. Among them is the artificial turf at Estadio Ricardo Saprissa in San Jose on Saturday.
To help combat that, the national team sought out an artificial surface in the friendly confines of Mexico City.
The Mexican national team ran a practice at the Mexico City campus of Tecnologico de Monterrey, a facility that has an artificial surface. According to Mexican daily Mural, some 2,000 students and faculty watched the national team run through their practice session.
The stadium typically plays host to American football games played by the school, more commonly known as El Tec.
Four years ago, El Tri used the same artificial turf to train on before heading down to Costa Rica to open the 2005 Hexagonal.
Mexico beat Costa Rica then, 2-1.
Despite Mexico’s poor record away from home, the Mexican national team feels confident about a win in Costa Rica.
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