2008 – Page 200

Retailers reported yesterday that the price of poultry has risen three times during the past week, going up RD$200 each time. Supplier warned retailers that beginning this Monday (today) the price would increase another RD$200 per hundredweight (HWT) of chicken. Last Saturday the price was RD$2,900 HWT. As Hoy newspaper reporters combed local marketplaces, they …

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Four distinguished animal pathologists from the United States have decided that the H5N2 Avian Virus (Bird Flu) has not caused pathologies or damage to the commercial poultry farms they investigated. The four were in the country to visit and research the situation at the invitation of the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Livestock Commission (CNP) …

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With the incredible price increases on all fuels, even propane, the transport unions that monopolize the transportation of people and freight throughout the Dominican Republic are divided on the question of how to go about increasing fares. While leaders such as Juan Hubieres and Ramon Perez Figuereo have announced that they will decide on their …

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In today’s A.M. column in Diario Libre, editor in chief Adriano Miguel Tejada goes after people who do not want to understand the realities of Dominican life. He says that an old friend commented that the country is full of intelligent people who do not want to understand what our problems are, that they do …

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San Francisco de Macoris is getting a new jail, the latest to enter the new model penitentiary system where prisoners are called inmates, not prisoners, and where an emphasis is placed on rehabilitation as opposed to punishment. No longer called a prison, the new facility is called a Correctional and Rehabilitation Center. It is designed …

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Mixed police and army patrols have rounded up 200 people in an operation that focused on certain areas considered most prone to criminal activity. The patrols confiscated weapons, drugs and stolen motorcycles. Police spokesman Colonel Jesus Cordero told reporters that on the first night of the operation alone the patrols netted 150 people even though …

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The meteorological office (Onamet) and the Emergency Operations Center (COE) have announced that the rains should diminish, but the authorities are maintaining a RED alert for most of the eastern Dominican Republic: La Romana, Hato Mayor, El Seibo, La Altagracia, San Pedro de Macoris and Monte Plata. A YELLOW alert is in place for Santo …

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What Dominicans have been doing for decades now could pick up steam in the US. The Wall Street Journal publishes an article in its 15 June issue encouraging Americans to do as Dominicans and pick up dual citizenship, based on their ancestry. The Wall Street Journal mentions that the DR is one of a number …

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The musical based on the life of a Dominican family in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood, “In the Heights” has just won the top prize at the annual Tony Awards, the Tony for Best Musical. The Tony Awards honor the best of the 2007-08 Broadway season. The musical led the nominations with 13, and …

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President Leonel Fernandez has announced a series of meetings with the economic and energy government department leaders, with a view to devising a strategic plan aimed at tackling rising food and fuel prices. On his return from a 10-day trip to Europe, Fernandez met with his economic and energy sector teams yesterday. Today he is …

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