2008 – Page 175

To date, the government has assigned a total of RD$3.05 billion to food subsidies in an attempt to keep the basic staples affordable to most people, and to prevent the price increases associated with increasing production costs that can reach as much as 50%. Less than a year ago the government began to subsidize foodstuffs …

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The official commission that is handling the conflict between the SACTPA transport union and the Chevron-Texaco Company has presented a proposal to Chevron-Texaco in the hope of ending the dispute. The mediating commission wants both parties to return to the former conditions for “the time being”. Chevron-Texaco has announced the cancellation of contracts for 25 …

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The conflict between members of the SACTPA union and Chevron Caribbean (Texaco) could mean a step forward or another step backwards in doing business in the DR. More than the profitability of the truckers and Chevron-Texaco is at stake. For the first time, a private company has decided to go all the way and fight …

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The head of the Dominican Customs Department, Miguel Cocco, has requested the rapid passage of the legislative bill that relates to the International Convention on Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Rules that President Leonel Fernandez has sent to Congress for approval. Cocco told reporters from Hoy that approval would speed up the work of local …

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Editor Adriano Miguel Tejada poses some questions in his A.M. column in today’s Diario Libre. The editor asks, should the government give larger subsidies and favors to drivers who never comply with the deals and who, moreover, owe the same government, the banks and who knows who else, billions of pesos and who refuse to …

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Despite the fact that salary demands are widespread, the business community has not managed to reach a unified front on the issue. According to Diario Libre, the president of the National Council for Business (CONEP), Lisandro Macarrulla, has said that he favors an across-the-board minimum wage increase for both the public and private sectors. In …

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Good news for the nearly million people who live in the northeast of the Dominican Republic. They no longer will have to go to Santo Domingo to get legalized birth certificates or to legalize any other personal documents. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has just opened a modern data center in San Francisco de Macoris …

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Leaders of the PRD and PRSC parties were in agreement with spokespersons from the Citizen Participation group about the proposal from the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Julio Cesar Valentin, who argued for a Constitutional Amendment that would freeze the number of members in Congress to 150, and combine the Senate and the Chamber …

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The director of the Department for the Prevention of Administrative Corruption (DPCA), formerly known as Depreco, visited the former chief auditor of the Chamber of Accounts, Andres Terrero for more than three hours yesterday. The assistant director of the DPCA, Hotoniel Bonilla also met with Juan Adalberto Lora, a former member of the chamber. According …

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Santiago de los Caballeros, the first city in the New World to be named Santiago, is gaining fame as an attractive place to visit. Listin Diario calls the city “gentlemanly” and “old world”. Some of its citizens, such as movie critic Jose D’Laura, never set foot outside the city unless it is a case of …

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