Costa Rican
Trade Minister Tells Jamaicans Doors Are
Wide Open
ICE Will Seek
Compensation If It Has Frequencies Taken
Away
San Jose Airport
Terminal Completion Has Begun
Crew Of USS
Gary Denied Disembarking
Five Months
Overdue And Still No Train To Heredia
ICE Not Paying
The Red Cross Either
ICE Not Paying
The Red Cross Either
The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
(ICE) is again under fire for refusing to
pay up its commitments, this time to the
Cruz Roja Costarricense (Costa Rican Red
Cross), which says it is owed ¢700 million
dollars by the state telecom.
The monies owed by ICE to the Cruz Roja is
in respect of the fees that ICE charges
customers monthly to its subscribers
included in every telephone bill.
Ingrid Camacho, general manager of the Cruz
Roka, said the worst part is that due to the
long processes it is not sure if and when it
will get the money.
Every telephone bill issued by ICE includes
¢50 or ¢80 colones, which people believe is
being handed over to the Cruz Roja. However,
that is not the case, according to Camacho,
as the Cruz Roja continues to struggle
financially.
"We have local committees with serious
financial problems", said Camacho.
The Cruz Roja is now appealing to the
Contraloría General de la República (CGR) to
tell it exactly the amount it could expect,
to help it with its financial planning.
One of the problems faced by the Cruz Roja
is that is has no exact figures on what ICE
is billing and collecting from customers
monthly.
When legislators approved the law last
November, estimated calculations were ¢200
million colones monthly.
Last Friday, ICE made a last minute payment
of fees owed to the newly created telecom
regulator, the Superintendencia de
Telecomunicaciones (Sutel), which faced
closing its doors temporarily. ICE owed the
Sutel ¢463 million colones in fees for
the 2009 first quarter.
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