2006 – Page 263

All four people on board the small Cessna airplane perished when their aircraft hit the side of a mountain near the Valdesia Dam. It took rescuers three days to find and then reach the crash site, high in the Central Mountains. The chief of the Emergency Operations Center (COE), Colonel Juan Mendez Garcia, told reporters …

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At a meeting which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the Dominican Republic finished its review of the IMF letter of intent that will go before the IMF board of directors on 8 May. The review of the letter of intent took place during the XLVII Meeting of the Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank …

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Elena Viyella de Paliza and Dr. Bernardo Defillo have squared off for a no-holds-barred battle over the social security health care package that has yet to start up. Earlier in the week, Defillo sent a letter to Dona Elena Viyella de Paliza, questioning National Council of Entrepreneurs (CONEP) members’ sincerity about the launch of the …

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Verizon Communications announced today that it would be selling its interests in the Dominican Republic’s largest telecommunications company, Verizon Dominicana. Verizon is celebrating its 75th year in the Dominican Republic and had recently announced a US$151 million investment. The move comes as part of the company having reached definitive agreements to sell its Puerto Rican …

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The numbers are so vast that most people cannot comprehend them. RD$95.5 billion. A sum of money so large that if RD$500 bills were laid end to end they would stretch for nearly two thousand miles. This is the sum of money the Santo Domingo and the National District courts are dealing with in the …

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In his column in El Caribe newspaper today, former Central Bank governor and ambassador to Washington, Bernardo Vega warns about the downside of the present practices for purchasing fuel. He explains that given the increases in the price of fuel, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been lending for Dominican purchases at 2% with debt in …

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The United States has donated US$1 million for a training and assistance program for the Dominican National Police. This brings to US$1.5 million the donations the U.S. government has made to improve the police, said US Ambassador Hans Hertell during a ceremony where the additional funds were announced. Signing for the Dominican government were Interior …

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Vladimir Pujols, the DR justice system’s most wanted man, will be sent to a maximum security facility as soon as an investigative magistrate in Azua hears the charges against him. The new Attorney General, Rodolfo Espiniera said that his office was required to preserve the rights of the accused, who is said to have killed …

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Although nobody is releasing precise sums, the builders of the Santo Domingo Metro system point out that thousands of jobs have been created and dozens of companies are benefiting from the project. This despite the fact that much of the project is just a bunch of lines on drawing paper. Leonel Carrasco, a top OPRET …

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Sales of the Dominican version of what North Americans and Europeans call ‘limes’ but what are called “lemons” here have increased by 1,400% over the last few months. “Limones” whether “criollos” or the hybrid variety are exceedingly scarce on the local markets. According to El Caribe, 60% of the local crop is exported to Haiti, …

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