2007 – Page 83

Brazil’s Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva will visit the Dominican Republic next month in order to take part in an “International Meeting of the Left and Progressive Movements in Latin America” sponsored by Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, according to sources. Temistocles Montas, the PLD’s International Affairs spokesman, told El Caribe that the get-together would be …

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The Minister for Economy, Planning and Development, Temistocles Montas, has warned that the ever-increasing price of oil is a threat to the Dominican Republic’s economic development and long-term stability. He warned that setting a price limit on fuels would seriously erode government income. While acknowledging that the high cost of fuel was affecting the population, …

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Diario Libre editor Adriano Miguel Tejada asks some pertinent questions about the controversial Sun Land IOUs in today’s A.M. column. Tejada says that the nation has a lot of questions about the Sun Land deal and the only answers that have been provided are political, of the “he said, she said” variety. Tejada then puts …

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The much talked-about OISOE (the Office of Supervising Engineers of State Projects) is now undergoing a full audit by the Chamber of Accounts, the government’s accounting branch. The chief magistrate of the chamber, Andres Terrero told reporters that the audit has been under way for about a month. Terrero also pointed out that the audit …

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The Dominican government assigned RD$3.379 billion towards propane subsidies during the first eight months of this year. This is the RD$17.35 that the government subsidizes for each gallon of LPG used for “domestic use”, although more and more is used for fueling vehicles. According to Diario Libre, propane consumption for the first eight months totaled …

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The Republic Bank, a financial institution with headquarters in Trinidad and Tobago, has decided to sell its operations in the Dominican Republic. The winning bidder was BHD, The Dominican Mortgage Bank, according to full-page announcements in all today’s papers. Republic Bank had come to the rescue of the ailing Banco Mercantil in October 2003 and …

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Bishop Diomedes Espinal de Leon, the head of the Mao-Montecristi dioceses, has asked the Haitian people for forgiveness for the 1937 massacre that took place near Dajabon on the Haitian frontier. Espinal de Leon was celebrating a commemorative mass on the occasion of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, the patron of Dajabon. …

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In Moca, the provincial capital of Espaillat province, workers carrying out reconstruction work on the city park alongside the Our Lady of the Rosary church have uncovered a very old cemetery. Some observers think that this could be the final resting place of the city’s original settlers. The contractors contacted the authorities at the Museum …

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