2003News

Mejia scores big with trip

Hoy newspaper editor, Bienvenido Alvarez Vega comments today on the treatment President Hipolito Mej?a received during his visit to Washington, D. C. from 19-21 May, and describes the trip as a ?palo? or homerun. President Salvador Jorge Blanco was received by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. President Bill Clinton received President Leonel Fernandez. But the …
2003News

Meat exports to resume

Hoy newspaper reports that technicians from the Department of Agriculture of the United States are scheduled to travel to the Dominican Republic at the end of summer to install facilities needed to certify beef exports to the United States. Agriculture Minister Eligio J?quez and Deputy Minister Jes?s de los Santos met with US Agriculture Secretary …
2003News

Still no agreement on Social Security

The National Social Security Committee (CNSS) and insurers have not yet reached an agreement on the contentious points under discussion. The scheduled implementation date for the National Social Security System (Law 87-01) was postponed to allow these issues to be resolved. According to CNSS general manager Arismendy D?az Santana old-age and disability pensions would come …