2003 – Page 59

The business community in Santiago de los Caballeros and the rest of the Cibao Valley are appealing to the government for a resolution to the energy crisis that has left the nation’s most productive region in the dark for nearly two weeks. Yesterday, as reported in DR1 News, the Santiago Development Association announced a deal …

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El Caribe is reporting today that the reconstruction efforts in Puerto Plata and Santiago have caused some discontent among the displaced and homeless. Favoritism is being alleged by some, and in other areas people are taking the reconstruction into their own hands because the government has said that it will only rebuild for the poor. …

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On Sunday, 2 November, according to a report in today’s El Caribe, there will be a flea market taking place under the Luperon overpass. Santo Domingo’s municipal council reached an agreement with the flea marketers to establish a new area for their marketplace. Urban planner Emilio Brea told reporters that while the area has been …

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El Caribe reports on the diminished interest in baseball’s World Series among Dominicans, who must settle for the Yankees-Marlins series as opposed to the Red Sox-Cubs series, whose teams listed more stellar Dominican players in their rosters. “Truly, the series between New York and Florida was not the preference of Dominicans,” admitted Rafael Perez, the …

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Henry Mejia, director of elections for the PRD, reported that 91% of the votes from 721 voting stations (of a total 3,800) cast during the PRD plebiscite on re-election were marked “No”. This amounts to 318,817 individuals’ negative response on the question of re-election for President Hipolito Mejia in the May 2004 Presidential election. Only …

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Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado urged the political and business leaderships to collaborate to resolve the serious economic and moral problems affecting the population. He mentioned high inflation, rising power rates and corruption as some of the ailments afflicting the country, and specifically referred to the Cibao region, where the power is on for very few …

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President Hipolito Mejia promised to turn the country into “a garden” if he is re-elected in 2004. The President said that aside from the four fundamental areas of national development – education, health, nutrition and housing – if he is elected, he would give priority to natural resources, environmental cleanups and the environmental conservation in …

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The Technical Secretary of the Presidency rejected the view that the Dominican government has no control over its spending. In a talk before the Association of Business Women on 17 October 2003 and as published in a paid advertisement in the Listin Diario today, former Governor of the Central Bank Carlos Despradel blames the present …

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Business consultant Jose Baez Guerrero comments on Page 2 of the Listin Diario, saying “?The country pays little attention to the desperate insistence of certain officers of the government who stick a knife in the backs of the people by levying more taxes. They want the business sector to ‘sacrifice more’ or ‘contribute more’, but …

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The Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), as the leading opposition party, has published a paid advertisement in the press highlighting the two sides of government policy. On one hand, it quotes Jose Lois Malkum, Governor of the Central Bank on 16 October, who, speaking before the Senate, said: “The government is compelled to revise the budget …

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