Dolores Vicioso – Page 6870

In its weekly column, the National Council of Business writes how the Dominican economy has shown a surprising potential for growth and recovery ? beyond the perception of its own leaders.  But, it says, the most pressing immediate problem affecting the Dominican Republic is in the perception of its citizens and their expectations. ?No country …

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Carmen Carvajal of Hoy newspaper writes that in November 2002, when the exchange rate broke the RD$20-to-US$1 barrier for the first time, Dominicans cried out in desperation. Little did they know that only six months later, the US dollar would be hovering around the RD$30-US$1 mark. In August 2000, at the start of the Mej?a …

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Economist Frederic Emam Zade focused in his Saturday column in El Caribe newspaper on how the government has found a new scapegoat. In his imaginary dialogue between two Dominicans, Emam Zade highlights how the government no longer has the Fern?ndez government to blame for its economic problems, nor the war in Iraq, and so now …

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Hoy newspaper journalist Altagracia Paulino reports on the closing of El Palacio de los Yaniqueques, a Villa Juana, Santo Domingo establishment. She says the owner of the cafeteria had called the ?Con el consumidor? program of CDN TV/Radio, to announce the closure because he could not meet costs. He said that to survive he would …

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Eduardo D?az, president of the Fundaci?n H?roes del 30 de Mayo, urged President Hip?lito Mej?a to order the monument erected in Constanza on 11 April by the Ministry of Armed Forces be torn down. The monument pays tribute to the military that fought off Dominican civilians seeking to overthrow the Trujillo regime in 1959. D?az …

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Cardinal Nicol?s de Jes?s L?pez Rodriguez criticized the controversial Constanza monument that honors Trujillo?s militia for putting down an attempt to overthrow the regime, saying that his family were victims of Trujillo and that there is little to be grateful to the dictator for. The commemorative statue, dedicated to ?those Dominicans who fell in the …

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The bestselling novel and most talked about book in the Dominican Republic today is ?Trujillo, visto por un siquiatra?, a biography of former Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo from a psychological viewpoint.  Dr. Jos? Miguel G?mez, who is the director of the governmental Padre Billini Psychiatry Hospital, explains that Trujillo was not a lunatic, nor a …

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Oscar Encarnacion, 19, and Wilson Pichardo, 20, died during a training mission with the Special Forces of the Air Force last week. There is speculation that the two panicked shortly after jumping from the plane when their chutes became tangled, leading them to hold themselves together in what was their first ever parachuting attempt. As …

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The new nationwide health system officially began in November in the Southwest, but months later in that region there is not a single person who has been served under the new system. Cards are yet to issued there. The plan was to do the same in Santo Domingo. But the National Council of Social Security …

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The government will go ahead with the start of the nationwide pension plan on 1 June. Companies and individuals will begin the massive obligatory savings plan at a time when government financial supervision is highly questionable, given the failure of the Superintendence of Banks in the Banister debacle, and the peso is rapidly losing its …

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