2003News

Seismic study planned

The Puerto Rican Seismic Network (RSPR) will install ten temporary seismic study stations to analyze the fault line associated with last month’s earthquake in the Puerto Plata area. The data they collect will be studied by RSPR and their Dominican counterpart, the Dominican Seismic Network.
2003News

The tricky corners

El Caribe newspaper reports on the 10 most accident-prone corners in Santo Domingo. Intersections that need to be approached with care are: Maximo Gomez/Kennedy; Tiradentes/27 de Febrero; Lincoln/Kennedy; Lincoln/27; Ortega & Gasset/27; Ortega & Gasset/Kennedy; Churchill/27; Lope de Vega/Pastoriza; Lope de Vega/Kennedy; and Lincoln/Jose A. Soler.
2003News

The three bad guys

An opinion piece by Fabio R. Herrera Minino in Hoy newspaper calls the government and the power generation and distribution companies “bad guys”, who seek to better their own interests without any consideration of the public suffering caused by their “business that is poorly run and even more poorly supervised.” The official explanation for the …