2006 – Page 267

President Leonel Fernandez told members of his cabinet and invited businessmen that met at the Presidential Palace yesterday for a government council meeting that the competition comes from abroad, not from within. He spoke on occasion of a presentation made by the National Competitiveness Council. He discarded that the DR-CAFTA free trade agreement will be …

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For several months the Dominican business community has been voicing its observations about the difficulties and high costs of doing business in the Dominican Republic in comparison with the Central American nations. One of the major obstacles was the process surrounding the creation of a corporation. Yesterday, President Leonel Fernandez, fresh from his trip to …

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Caught by a TV camera in one of the Presidential Palace hallways where they attended a cabinet meeting yesterday, Tourism Minister Felix (Felucho) Jimenez and Environment Minister Max Puig tried to downplay their differences for the sake of the government and smiled for the camera as they together commented on the proposed construction of hotels …

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President Leonel Fernandez has appointed lawyer Mabel Feliz Baez to preside over the National Drugs Council (CND), replacing General Jose Anibal Sanz Jiminian. Decree 89-06 dated 10 March 2006 announces the appointment. This is the first time that a woman holds this post, which was created in May 1988. Since the change of government in …

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International support for the Dominican Republic has allowed the nation to be chosen as the seat for the President of Ibero-American Institute for Maritime Law for the next two years. The Institute attempts to reconcile the different interpretations of maritime law for the Ibero-American nations. The decision was taken at the Institute’s recent meeting in …

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Finance Minister Vicente Bengoa told reporters from Hoy that Dominican immigrants have sent back ten times more money than all the disbursements made by international financial institutions over the past eleven years. The remittances totaled US$17.8 billion and the disbursements from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) …

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The Director General of Customs told the press yesterday that his office had seized 110 vehicles that had been fraudulently brought to the Dominican Republic by “unscrupulous” importers. According to Hoy, the importers had forged the documents of vehicles that had been declared “salvage” in the United States. Miguel Cocco told the reporters that the …

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Once again the national press announces that PUCMM University Rector Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado has been asked to serve as a mediator between two powerful factions: the government and the assembly of municipal governments (FEDOMU). The basic conflict stems from the government’s tardy emission of the checks which fund the municipal governments. These checks are …

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The period established by the Electoral Law for the publishing of the congressional and municipal candidates that will participate in the 16 May election is now past. But the Central Electoral Board (JCE), for the first time in recent electoral history, is late in publishing the list. Diario Libre reports that the board of the …

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The “bridge decree” concerning government purchases is not satisfactory for the United States and the US is demanding Congressional approval of the law that will cover all governmental purchases. The US Department of Commerce says that it is not satisfied with the decree, and the renewal of pressure by the US puts an additional weight …

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