Dolores Vicioso – Page 6847

The economic section of today?s Hoy newspaper says that the Dominican government owes RD$3 billion in tax revenues collected but not turned over to the Central Bank. Pedro Silverio, head of the Cenantillas economic research center at the PUCMM university, says that this money is the product of taxes created under the Law for Hydrocarbons …

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According to a front-page story by Santiago Gonz?lez of Hoy, the egg and poultry producers in La Vega are planning to stage a protest at which they will give away 10,000 baby chicks and more than 30,000 fertile eggs because the producers are not able to use them. The producers invited the public to meet …

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The last page of the first section of Hoy has two good articles on the need for solid public defenders in the Dominican Republic. FINJUS, the Foundation for Institutionalism and Justice, says that if a foreign judicial reporter were ever to review the situation in the Dominican Republic, the realities would be denounced all over …

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Perhaps the best news of the day is found between the pages of El Caribe, in which an article discusses 15 various ways to make a peso go further. The head of the Consumer Defense Foundation gave El Caribe 15 good pieces of advice on how to economize. Altagracia Paulino has the following suggestions, among …

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Jose Joaquin Puello, president of the Organizing Committee of the Pan American Games is optimistic the Dominican Republic could become a regional training center for the Americas once the Pan Am Games are over. ?In a short period of time, we will become a regional training center of the Americas in at least six sports, …

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President Hip?lito Mej?a reaffirmed yesterday the government?s plans to turn over the management of the government-intervened Baninter to Scotiabank. Speaking on the ?Una Vez a la Semana? TV program, Mej?a said he would meet Peter Godsoe, chief executive officer of Scotiabank, today at the Presidential Palace. Together, they would review the final details for Scotiabank?s …

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The Senate will meet on Tuesday to choose the new president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), in the wake of Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda?s resignation of last week. So far, Luis Arias, who presides over the administrative chamber of the JCE, and Luis Mera Alvarez, the temporary replacement for Morel Cerda, have each expressed …

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