2004 – Page 25

President Leonel Fernandez is scheduled to speak today at 8pm from the Presidential Palace. Fernandez’s address, which will deal with his first 100 days in government, will be televised locally.

Diario Libre’s back-page editorial comments that President Leonel Fernandez, who has a reputation for always being late, is changing his tardy ways and arriving at events on time. The editorialist reports that the DR’s head of state was on time for his meeting with newspaper editors that took place on Thursday at the Presidential Palace. …

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The Customs Department has expanded the government measure that allows expatriate Dominicans returning home for the holidays to bring gifts from abroad without paying duty. The ceiling amount, which was previously set at US$1,000, has been augmented so that Dominican ex-pats may bring in US$1,500 worth of gifts. Customs’ Deputy Director Luis Sanchez also reminded …

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Lawyer Luis Miguel Pereyra concurred that former President Hipolito Mejia should be questioned regarding the RD$1-billion fraud case pending against the state in connection with Plan Renove. Speaking on the D’Agenda TV show that is produced by Hector Herrera Cabral on Channel 11, Pereyra agreed with those who have said that since former Interior & …

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Salvador Ramos, the president of the Disputes Chamber of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), told the Listin Diario yesterday that the JCE could organize the primaries in which the political parties are to elect their municipal and congressional leaders for a sum of RD$60-70 million, and not the RD$700-million budget that the electoral college had …

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During its convention held on 26-27 November at the Club Mauricio Baez, the PRD party decided it would propose to reinstate the ban on Presidential re-election that it has traditionally upheld. More than 2,000 PRD leaders participated in the event. Former President Hipolito Mejia broke with tradition in 2003 when he went against the collective …

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On Saturday, Vicente Sanchez Baret, the PRD party president, former Customs director and one of the strongest supporters of President Hipolito Mejia’s re-election, was reported to have announced his resignation from the political organization, along with his family. His wife was the Minister of Women’s Affairs during the Mejia government. While in his written resignation …

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