2003 – Page 10

The Dominican College of Physicians (CMD) told the press yesterday that 90% of the public sector hospitals are receiving monthly allotments that are well below the minimum needed. The president of the board, Waldo Ariel Suero, said that demands to boost funding have not been met by the public health authorities. Suero complained that despite …

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President Hipolito Mejia’s intensely troubled PRD party is even more divided this morning after the three presidential hopefuls who were to challenge Mejia at the party convention abandoned the contest. Vice-President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Rafael Subervi Bonilla and Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero withdrew their participation from any party convention that included Hipolito Mejia. Previously, the group …

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According to the Listin Diario, Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, the coordinator for the National Dialogue, met with ambassadors from the European Union, Canada, the United States, and Japan. The diplomats voiced their worries over the political crisis affecting the country. Dubbed the “Mini Dublin Group”, the ambassadors met with Monsignor Nunez to analyze the current …

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Aeromar Airlines has promised to pay a collective US$1.5 million to ticket holders recently left stranded in New York. Meanwhile, a group of travel agents has asked President Hipolito Mejia to intercede in order to get another carrier for the marooned Aeromar passengers. They referred to the two Air Atlanta 747s currently parked at the …

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Two Dominican popular music sensations, Chichi Peralta and Juan Luis Guerra, have joined forces with Spanish Joan Manuel Serrat, Dominican tenor Francisco Casanova and Puerto Rican Danny Rivera to make the plight of Bahia de las Aguilas known to the world. The stretch of beach in the southwestern province of Pedernales is regarded as a …

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In their second match of the 2003 NORCECA Zone Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the Dominican national women’s team, ranked 14th in the world, defeated the Canadian team, ranked 20th. The Canadian women got off to a strong start in the first set with a score of 27-25, but fell to the 2003 Pan American Games gold …

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Technical Secretary of the Presidency Carlos Despradel will present the RD$120-billion 2004 National Budget to the National Development Council at the Presidential Palace. According to reports, the budget will be sent tomorrow to Congress, where it must be approved before the Christmas break. The government is purportedly counting on resources from a 5% tax on …

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With foreign debt obligations having doubled during the first three years of the Mejia government, economist and former director of the National Planning Office during the Leonel Fernandez government Rafael Camilo said that the government next year will need RD$40 billion to pay foreign debt, reported Hoy newspaper. Camilo said the government will need to …

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The Executive Branch needs congressional approval for a US$200-million emergency loan from the Interamerican Development Bank. The government says these funds would be used to make payments due to the power generation companies and to support social programs of the Education and Public Health ministries. The disbursement of the loan is pending the resumption of …

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Pope John Paul II, during the accreditation ceremony for the new Dominican ambassador to the Vatican, Carlos Rafael Conrado Marion Landais, mentioned the worsening standard of living of the Dominican population, as reported in El Caribe newspaper. “Internal and external causes have produced a serious deterioration and certain decline in the quality of life of …

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