2007 – Page 111

Today’s Diario Libre reports that the Superintendence of Electricity has fast-tracked the Santiago Metropolitan Hospital, authorizing it to receive its electricity supply directly from the generators, bypassing the much more expensive power from EdeNorte distribution company. The newspaper points out that hundreds of other private hospitals and industries have long been on a waiting list …

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Three Catholic bishops have voiced their agreement with the statement issued by Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez concerning the high salaries of some government officials. The bishops said that they were insulted by the announcement that certain government officials were being paid salaries of a million pesos per month or more when most of the country is …

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The Fernandez government called a meeting with the Church to make RD$152 million available for improvements requested by the Catholic Church in the DR. The works will be carried out by the Presidency’s Public Works Supervisors Office, headed by Felix Bautista and will be ready by February 2008, according to a report in Listin Diario. …

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The secretary general of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), Orlando Jorge Mera, said yesterday that the new regulations from the Central Electoral Board (JCE) would only affect the opposition parties and not the candidate for re-election. Jorge Mera said that he was concerned that the rules and regulations did not guarantee a level playing field …

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Physician Lilliam Fondeur has called on Congress to disregard strong demands from the Roman Catholic Church, which seeks to maintain the total ban on abortion in the DR. Dr. Fondeur says that physicians should exercise the previous flexibility to allow abortion in the case of rape, incest or fetal abnormalities. She says that removing the …

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The Dominican government is issuing a warning to credit card users who make on-line purchases to be on the lookout for fraud committed with cloned cards. According to Listin Diario, some companies are offering equipment that will clone credit cards with web pages on the Internet. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce warned about the …

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The Dominican police have begun to apply a new tactic, one of mapping out the areas where most crimes occur, as a way of stepping up the fight against crime. At the same time there will be more frequent motorized patrols in the 20 barrios that make up the northern sector of Santo Domingo. New …

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Dominican 9-10 year olds have won the XI Pan American Infantil A (9-10 years old) youth baseball competition. The event was held in Santo Domingo on 1-12 September, and is part of the youth tournament organized by the Pan American Baseball Confederation (COPABE), under the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). The Dominican children came from behind …

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President Leonel Fernandez has announced that in the next few days he will implement some new measures aimed at strengthening new opportunities available in the textile sector, with the intention of creating jobs in the country’s free trade zones. Fernandez, as reported in Diario Libre, said that ways of making the most of new opportunities …

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According to US International Trade Commission statistics on trade between the US and the DR for the first half of the year, the United States is the big winner in the start of the implementation of the free trade agreement, DR-CAFTA. US exports to the DR are up 12.67%, from US$2,487.5 million from Jan-June 2006 …

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