2007 – Page 84

The Minister of Agriculture has reassured farmers by announcing that the red palm aphid recently found on trees in the garden of the United States Agricultural Department’s official in the Arroyo Hondo area of Santo Domingo, was not a threat to their crops. According to Hoy, the official, the USDA’s watchdog on plant diseases and …

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Internet service centers are abounding in Santo Domingo and free Wi-Fi is widely available. According to El Caribe, Internet services are gravitating towards the areas where there is a high concentration of university students. Just around the UASD there are more than 50 Internet facilities. Some former call centers are now offering just Internet service, …

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Hector Guzman Valdez, aka “Papo Problema”, was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of setting the fire that killed three children and their aged great-grandmother in the Katanga area of La Romana. The magistrate at the Court of Instruction will hear arguments about whether the prisoner should be held on remand or not. The accused also …

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Although the local authorities are giving them different names, the construction of special park areas for young children continues throughout greater Santo Domingo. Called, in Spanish, “canquinas”, after old-fashioned multi-colored candy canes, the idea has attracted support in east Santo Domingo where the parks are called “rainbows” and up in Pedro Brand where they are …

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“Big Papi” David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez assisted Curt Schilling’s masterful pitching with back-to-back homeruns in the fourth inning to give the Boston Red Sox a three-game sweep of the Anaheim Angles. A seven-run eighth inning sealed the deal for the Sox, who have won nine straight playoff games over Anaheim. David Ortiz and Mike …

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President Leonel Fernandez and his economic team are due to meet with officials from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank tomorrow to study the development of the Dominican economy, the economy’s successes, the electricity crisis, the transport issue and petroleum concerns. The meeting will take place at Casa de Campo. Hoy is …

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President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated a range of projects yesterday including the reconstruction of the Casabito highway, which connects Constanza with the Duarte highway. Also, the surrounding communities will have their electricity system upgraded. The government is spending an estimated RD$240 million on these projects. The highway project will cost RD$42 million and is 51 kilometers …

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The government’s tax revenue during the second semester is well above its spending, resulting in a surplus of RD$20,416 million. These figures were published in a report released by the Treasury Ministry, which points out that between January and September fiscal revenue jumped to RD$171,317.9 million while central government spending only totaled RD$150,201.6 million. Revenue …

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The PRD has come out in defense of presidential candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado by saying that loans taken out by the then Minister of Public Works were legal, and continued by saying that questioning Vargas’s work was just a way for President Leonel Fernandez to divert attention and evade responsibility for answering questions about the …

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Hoy is quoting the Norwegian newspaper Norwatch, specializing in environmental issues, about the case of a Norwegian boat said to be responsible for dumping toxic waste in the port of Haina, violating Dominican environmental law 64-00 on disposal of dangerous liquids. Hoy writes that the dumping was carried out several weeks ago without any environmental …

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