Dolores Vicioso – Page 6849

Jos? Joaqu?n Puello, president of the Pan Am Games Organizing Committee, has responded to criticism by Mario V?zquez Ra?a, president of the Pan American Sports Organization, by saying, ?We will not fail in achieving the successful staging the Pan American Games.? V?zquez Ra?a had told journalists in Prague that there had been ?problem after problem? …

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Santo Domingo Mayor Roberto Salcedo promised a ?safe, clean, well-signed and hospitable city? for the Games? participants. Despite Salcedo?s assurances that Santo Domingo is a safe and peaceful place, CDN TV and Radio news channel is carrying a report this morning that the US government has advised its citizens visiting the city for the Pan …

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List?n Diario reported that 300 new buses with air-conditioning and reclining seats will provide transportation for athletes and delegates recently arrived. Jos? Joaquin Puello, president of the Organizing Committee, said that in addition, some 1,000 minibuses would be used to service the game participants. Some 170 SUVs and luxury cars will be at the disposal …

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Jos? Joaquin Puello revealed that the marginal road under construction north of Las Americas, from the area where the Pan American Village is located and into Las Americas highway, will not be completed on time. Despite the imminence of the opening celebrations of the Games, the Public Works Ministry began its construction at the last …

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Controversial president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE), Ramon Morel Cerda, announced his resignation today, as reported by CDN TV & radio network, saying that he had renounced his post in writing to the Senate on Monday, 30 June. Thus ends a six-month standoff in which the activities of the board were virtually paralyzed, after …

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Hoy newspaper leads with the story that a new coalition of business organizations and civil society groups has been formed. The ?Coalition for Transparency? will be made up of 52 organizations, including the National Council of Business (CONEP), the Young Entrepreneurs Association (ANJE), Participaci?n Ciudadana and the Foundation for Justice and Institutionalism (FINJUS). The formation …

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Diario Libre quotes economist Pedro Silverio as saying that the country?s economic growth will slacken over the next four years as a result of the IMF measures, and that further measures exist in the letter of intention that have not yet been made public. As director of the economic think-tank Cenantillas, Silverio believes that the …

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The European Union ambassador Miguel Amado announced yesterday that a donation of 200 million euros (about RD$800 million) has been approved to help ease the effects of the tough economic measures required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He added that over the next five years the EU has earmarked 176 million euros for development …

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Vinicio Castillo Seman, renowned laywer and defense counsel of Baninter president Ram?n B?ez, writes in Hoy newspaper today about the accountability of government authorities in the Baninter fiasco and subsequent economic turmoil. Castillo says that it is not true that the authorities only recently discovered a clandestine bank within the bank. He said the authorities …

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One of the detainees in the Baninter fraud case, businessman Luis Alvarez Renta, has been taken to the Abreu, the private clinic located next door to the Ciudad Nueva jail where he had been kept in custody, in a ?delicate condition?. His doctors assessed that he was suffering from ?uncontrolled arterial pressure?, as well as …

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