2004 – Page 74

The Education Minister will formally bring charges against the former regional director of Education, based in Santiago, Deysi Diaz, for allegedly diverting thousands of school desks, teachers’ desks, filing cabinets, cupboards, and blackboards from the public schools. The scam is estimated to have bilked the system of RD$4 million. As reported in the La Informacion …

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More than 100 families bought apartments and houses from the National Housing Institute (INVI) during the last administration, but have not been able to occupy their properties because INVI employees had sold the same properties to several people. Others, who had paid their bills, appear in the computer as owing money because they were given …

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The District Attorney for the National District, Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero, announced the arrest of one suspect in the attempted homicide of television and radio commentator Euri Cabral on Wednesday night. Hoy newspaper reports that the DA is not revealing the name of the person being questioned, but that he did say that the case …

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The alligator that was found in the river near Pedro Brand in the Province of Santo Domingo was delivered safely to the hands of the Ministry of Environment and taken to the National Zoo. The authorities did not have an easy time getting the amphibian from its captors. Ivelisse Figueroa, the director of the unit …

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Roll out the red carpet. The official arrival in the DR of gold-medal Olympian Felix Sanchez is expected at 12:30pm this Sunday, 3 October. He will be received by his father and a committee of sports figures including the Sports Minister Jay Payano and the president of the Dominican Olympic Committee, Luisin Mejia, as well …

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While some of our favorite teams might not be doing as well as hoped, there is certainly a flood of outstanding individual performances from the Dominican baseball contingent in the US Major Leagues. Forty-six-year-old Julio Franco is having a great year with the playoff-bound Atlanta Braves and is just three hits away from becoming the …

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President Leonel Fernandez yesterday guaranteed that the Free Trade Agreement with the United States would go through. As he spoke at the opening of the EXPO Cibao 2004 in La Barranquita, Santiago, the President told his audience of diplomats, politicians, and industrial and commercial leaders that no single sector of the nation’s economy has the …

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Manuel Garcia Arevalo, the spokesman for the bottlers of Pepsi in the Dominican Republic, told Hoy newspaper that local producers could circumvent any surcharge on corn syrup imports by producing in the border area provinces, under the lucrative provisions of Law 28-01. He explained that any company wishing to use tax-free sugar need merely install …

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The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic (CB) has announced an ambitious plan to reduce the quasi-fiscal deficit that was produced by extremely high interest rates and bank bail-outs in 2003. The aim of the new programs will be to reduce the deficit by RD$16.3 billion in 2005 by applying the first of four steps …

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A team of government officials, including the finance minister and Central Bank governor, will travel to Europe this weekend in search of funding that will allow the country to meet some of its payment obligations. While there, the officials will also meet with the Paris Club and lay out the plans to comprise the new …

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