2004 – Page 35

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America has named 28-year-old Vladimir Guerrero, the Anaheim Angels’ right-fielder, as the winner of the American League’s Most Valuable Player award. Vladimir Guerrero was back in his native Dominican Republic when he learnt the news. He visited the Presidential Palace and received congratulations from President Leonel Fernandez. “The Dominican people …

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Technical Secretary of the Presidency Temistocles Montas announced yesterday that the government does not plan to propose new taxes until after the May 2006 election. He said the government would cut its own spending to reduce the fiscal deficit. Furthermore, he said that the government would not execute loans that have been contracted for RD$2 …

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Technical Secretary of the Presidency Temistocles Montas announced yesterday during the Gobierno de la Manana radio broadcast from the Presidential Palace that the government needs to reduce the power sector’s US$650-million fiscal gap to a maximum of US$250 million in order to resume the stand by agreement with the IMF. The government has announced it …

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The Ministry of Agriculture and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed an agreement to stimulate Dominican commercial organic farming. The agreement calls for an investment of RD$180 million in five years, as reported in Hoy newspaper. Agriculture Minister Amilcar Romero and JICA director in the DR, Shozo Fukuda signed. The project seeks to make …

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Not willing to give in to major difficulties in resolving the garbage collection service in the city of Santo Domingo, the capital city’s mayor wants a second chance. To this end, he is importing 30 garbage compacting trucks from Miami that are expected to arrive at the end of the month. The city government says …

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AES Corporation has announced the sale of 50% of its shares in the AES EdeEste power distribution company to an entity called Dominican Energy Holdings, LP. AES says that the main shareholder of this company is TCW Energy Advisors, LLC, which is based in California. As reported in Diario Libre, under the terms of the …

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James J Heckman, who was honored with the 2000 Nobel Laureate in Economics for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples, is currently in the Dominican Republic to attend the 20th General Assembly of the Inter-American Conference on Social Security. Speaking during the event that is taking place in Casa de Campo, …

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It has been abnormally cold for this time of the year in the Dominican Republic, with the lowest temperatures mostly being felt in the Central mountain range, with unusual lows reported for Alto Bandera, which lies at 2,669 meters above sea level near the city of Constanza. Diario Libre reports this area saw temperatures drop …

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Dominican David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox is leading in the Major League Baseball online poll on who should win the American League’s most valuable player. David Ortiz’s stats are: .301, 41 HR, 139 RBIs. And of his 175 hits, 91 have been for extra bases. In an online commentary, MLB site indicates that …

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