2008 – Page 87

Two US companies, Hart Energy Consulting and Energy Security Group, have submitted a project aimed at helping implement Law 57-07 on alternative energy, specifically using ethanol mixed fuels. The project’s objective is for 10% of the local fuel consumption to come from ethanol fuel. This could greatly reduce the nation’s foreign fuel bill. Initial studies …

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The start-up of construction projects has decreased by 90% in the last two months, according to the president of the Housing Construction and Promotion Association (ACROPROVI), Jaime Gonzalez. Gonzalez blames the lag in construction on the rising financial costs. Gonzalez says that sales of new homes are down 70% in 2008, compared to 2007.

Five international companies have shown an interest in participating in the construction of the Santo Domingo metro’s proposed second line. These are Alstom, Siemens, Bombardier, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) and Invensys. The second Metro line would run from Los Alcarrizos to San Luis, a distance of 22 kilometers and 24 stations, at an …

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Freight vehicles make up only 15% of the vehicles on the road, but are responsible for 25% of all accidents in the DR, according to Juan Manuel Cabral Baldera, director of the Department of Highway Organization, a dependency of the Transit Authority (AMET). Cabral made his comments during a training and inspection seminar with truck …

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The overpass on John F. Kennedy Avenue, which intersects at Abraham Lincoln Avenue, will be closed for repairs tomorrow, Saturday from 8am until noon. A lane divider at the intersection was damaged after a traffic accident early Friday morning. Expect traffic jams throughout the afternoon.

Geographer Zacarias Nieto warns that the construction of the new Cibao-South highway on the route proposed and promoted by Monsignor Jose Dolores Grullon of San Juan de la Maguana would result in the destruction of several rivers and forests in the Cordillera Central that are now protected because they are inaccessible to humans. Writing in …

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The US Carter Center, through the ITFDE in Atlanta, Georgia will begin a joint campaign to accelerate the elimination of malaria and lymphatic filariasis in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The initiative stems from a 2006 recommendation from the Carter Center’s International Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE) – a group of 12 global experts …

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Yesterday, police officers, state prosecutors and governors from across the country met to discuss their roles in the judicial and legal process. Participants discussed the Dominican penal code and how each sector fits into applying its statutes. The meeting was led by Prosecutor General Radhames Jimenez Pena, Minister of Interior and Police Franklyn Almeyda and …

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Dominican Medical Association (CMD) president Waldo Ariel Suero is protesting the forceful removal of himself and other medics that camped out on the second floor of the Ministry of Public Health on Wednesday. At 2am on Thursday, a Police Swat group carried them outside of the ministry. Suero accuses the government of brutality. Suero says …

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Police are searching for 24-year old New York Mets reliever Ambiorix Burgos who was driving an SUV when he ran over two women who later died of their injuries in a Nagua hospital. Josefina Minaya Martinez, 38, and Angely Fana, 29, were struck by a new Hummer on the Cabrera-Nagua highway on Tuesday. A relative …

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