2004 – Page 22

The State Sugar Council (CEA) has given the Hernandez Paulino construction firm until Monday to return possession of millions of square meters of land to them or else! The construction company has been given two choices: either pay the going price for the land or return it. The CEA executive, Domingo Enrique Martinez is talking …

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No child shall be discriminated against or prevented from attending school because of being HIV positive, and an investigation will be carried out within the public school system to see whether there have been any cases of such discrimination. Education Minister Alejandrina German made these remarks as part of the ministerial activities to commemorate World …

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Operation Cowboy has begun to attempt to halt the cattle rustling along the border with Haiti. Supported by six helicopters and a large quantity of all-terrain vehicles, hundreds of soldiers scouted the area along the Haitian frontier looking for drugs, stolen vehicles and rustled cattle. El Caribe reports that Major General Jose Ricardo Estrella and …

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“This is not the time for strikes or for salary increases,” says Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, who declined to mediate the wage conflict between the Dominican Medical College (CMD) and the Ministry of Public Health. Hoy reports that the CMD has announced another three-day strike of the 147 public hospitals and clinics, as …

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The sharp appreciation of the peso has benefited the government in that it needs less pesos to pay the foreign debt. But on the other hand, the government is receiving less revenues since imports values have dropped. Hoy newspaper says that the difference in tax collections is due to the fact that in August imports …

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are at loggerheads over the Dominican government’s decision to not eliminate but rather increase the exchange commission from 10 to 13% of the amount of dollars needed to import anything in hard currency. Hoy reports that the WTO sees the foreign exchange commission as …

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The president of the Dominican Association of Housing Promoters and Constructors (ACOPROVI), Jose Rodriguez Caceres, told reporters from the Listin Diario that the lower cost of dollars, cheaper hardware materials, and lesser interest rates have not created lower prices on new housing units because of salary increases, bureaucratic red tape and higher taxes. The association …

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The director of the Diario Libre writes the A. M. column this morning and warns the readers of two dilemmas that are facing the Dominican Republic. The country is at a crossroads. A lack of information immobilizes our limbs and makes our brains work on something that apparently does not have a logical and precise …

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D’La Mona Plaza is to be constructed in the middle of the Mona Passage between the island of Hispanola and Puerto Rico, right in the middle of the route used by small craft boats for transferring illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. According to the headline story in the Diario Libre, it …

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The Department of Customs has authorized its customary tax-free import of gifts for friends and relatives up to US$1,500. Of the total, US$1,000 corresponds to the value of the gifts, and another US$500 allotment is approved for personal use items. The measure benefits Dominican expatriates who have not visited for the past six months. The …

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