2007 – Page 85

Hoy is reporting that the demand for SUVs in the DR is surpassing the demand for cars. SUV sales amount to 35% of total sales while cars only make up 20% of total vehicular sales. ACOFAVE believes that this is just a temporary trend. According to Enrique Fernandez the reason for this is that some …

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The Tax Department (DGII) is reminding drivers who qualify to go to designated offices and pick up their license plate renewal refunds. The DGII has gone as far as to publish large ads in today’s papers listing the drivers who should collect their money since there are about 1,000 who qualify. The DGII had given …

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The National Police has uncovered a car theft ring and have informed that they have recovered 287 vehicles of different makes and models. Listin Diario writes that the ring operated mostly in Santiago and Puerto Plata. Police Chief Rafael Guillermo Guzman Fermin said that 51 people will be prosecuted for their links with the ring, …

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The Environmental Ministry is re-launching the “Plan Quisqueya Verde.” The program aims to plant 1,500,000 new trees around the DR. Environment Minister Omar Ramirez says that 35 acres of land have already been designated for tree-planting, which will begin on Saturday. He said that 800 heads of families have been mobilized and will now become …

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The Dominican Red Cross has signed an agreement with the Spanish and Haitian Red Cross and with the Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI). The agreement is for a program of natural disaster linked risk reduction programs and will cover seven provinces in the southern part of the DR. The agreement will last three years and …

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A Dominican Navy officer assigned to the National Drug Control Department was arrested yesterday in connection with a 12kg shipment that was seized on the DR-PR ferry. The Navy official was named as Luis Felipe Pena Cruz, the owner of the Honda Accord car where the drugs were found.

The MLB playoff season continued yesterday with the Cleveland Indians pounding the early favorites, the New York Yankees. Alex Rodriguez continued his post-season slump and Johnny Damon homered for the Bombers, but it wasn’t enough as the Yanks fell 13-4. The Phillies lost to the Rockies 10-5 and the Cubs lost again last night to …

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The PLD party has taken upon itself defending the US$130 million in promissory notes scandal affecting the Fernandez administration. In dispute is a claim that the President unilaterally authorized the director of the Office of Supervisors of Public Works (OISOE) to sign for the taking on of the commercial bank credit, bypassing the regular procedure …

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Agriculture Minister Salvador Jimenez celebrated the veto that US President George Bush made yesterday to the bill that would have made Dominican cigars sold in the US much more expensive. Jimenez said the tax would have meant losses in sales of an estimated 30%, or about US$100 million, and 10,000 jobs, as reported in El …

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Hacienda Minister Vicente Bengoa announced the renegotiating of the PetroCaribe agreement with Venezuela. Bengoa said the government will be financing 50,000 barrels per shipment, up from 30,000 barrels. The modification comes after petrol prices have increased. Vicente Bengoa, Hacienda Minister, is in Venezuela negotiating the increases and was not able to give a timetable for …

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