THE EX-PAT:
NAPOCOR, PPA, EIRA.. Whats next?
By Papa Mike
With this columns’ many writings over the years on the local power
situation and the rip off of the PPA now comes an even more disturbing
piece of news on POWER.
In the implementing rules of the proposed and controversial power reform
bill, called the Energy Industry Rehabilitation Act (EIRA) there is
a proposal to levy those who have generators and generate their own
power. Not the householders but hospitals, hotels, restaurants, tourist
resorts, farmers, fishing entrepreneurs, and media companies. The foregoing
are to be charged between .40 and .50 centavos per kilowatt-hour for
generating power.
Imagine, your power is shut down due to failure of the power companies
generators. You quickly fire up your own generator so as to carry on
business as usual and they tax you for it. The PPA is onerous this is
absurd. Is there no end to someone putting their hands in our pockets?
I, for me, will do whatever I can to help get around this and I have
no business interests. Hopefully those with businesses will stand up
and fight.
I met a tourist over the weekend that had been ripped off here in
Puerto. Not unheard of other places but here? Yes. He had taken a tricycle
to an inexpensive hotel on the trike driver’s advice. The driver
also offered to “Fix him up”. That also was accepted. However
when he woke up everything he owned was missing money, passport, all
his I.D.’s and his bag with his clothes. The hotel got the police
into things and, after telling his story to them was told there was
no use following up on it as - ‘It happens all the time here’
This write was unaware that this happens all the time here. The man
admits that he should have known better, also that he shouldn’t
have taken the drink, which knocked him out. But...
Happens all the time?
If an American passport comes to light anywhere let me know. I’ll
get it back either to him or to the U.S. Embassy.
On the lighter side: The following quotes were taken from actual medical
records as directed by physicians.
“By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart had stopped and he
was feeling better.”
“The patient refused an autopsy”
“She was numb from her toes down.”
“His skin was moist and dry.’
“When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.”
“Discharge status: Alive but without permission.”
“The patient was in good health until his airplane ran out of gas
and crashed.”
“The patient has no past history of suicides.”
“The patient left his white blood cells at another hospital.”
“She slipped on the ice and apparently her legs went in different
directions in early December.”
When was the last time you visited a doctor?
