Dolores Vicioso – Page 6914

The Senate building was broken into yesterday and the CPU containing important Senate documents was removed from the office of Senate secretary Paris Goico. The robbers did not bother to remove the monitor of the computer.

EGTT Dominicana, the company that formerly handled Santo Domingo Este municipality’s garbage collection, disputes the statement made by Mayor Domingo Batista which said the company was billing RD$16 million a month for the service, as reported yesterday in DR1 Daily News. “On average, the French company has been billing approximately 10,000 tons a month times …

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The seven individuals vying for the PRD presidential candidacy for the May 2004 election and who dispute President Hipolito Mejia’s desire to be re-elected, announced yesterday their intention to proceed with their plebiscite for 12 October. Vice-President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Rafael Subervi Bonilla, Jose Rafael Abinader, Enmanuel Esquea Guerrero, Rafael Flores, Ramon Alburquerque and Hatuey …

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Anibal de Castro, executive editor of the Diario Libre, writes an editorial today on why the Dominican Republic has failed and those reasons, he says, are not only economic. The existing political and social culture deters the progress of government and the standard of living, believes de Castro, who says that the current economic crisis …

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The Listin Diario reports that 12 women have been killed by their spouses in incidents of domestic violence this September. The total number of victims of domestic violence reported by police this month is 19, to include four children, as well as three men who committed suicide after taking the lives of family members. Psychiatrist …

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Sunday’s El Caribe reported that half the country was without electrical power and questioned whether the blackouts were the fault of mechanical failures or lack of payment. According to Daniel Garcia, a reporter for El Caribe, huge areas of Santo Domingo, even in the Colonial Zone, were blacked out. He emphasized that the Colonial Zone, …

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Today’s papers are reporting that President Mejia has reaffirmed his intention to acquire the 50% share of the two distribution companies held by Union Fenosa, quoting him as saying that the purchase agreement is “irreversible.” The government has defended the deal as a way to restructure the power system. He said he preferred to come …

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Economist Bernardo Vega, today’s El Caribe op-ed piece, points out, as he did last week, that the IMF is objecting to the buy-back for two reasons. The first is that the purchase will push the public foreign debt to new heights, in blatant disregard for the IMF letter of intention. Meanwhile, it will also reduce …

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While the government removes control of the electric system from the much-despised and inefficient Spanish operators, analysts say there were better ways out. Business consultant Federico Martinez, in an interview with Hoy, said, “I would have let them continue operating and when they could not sustain themselves under market conditions and the interests of the …

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The president of EGTT Edominicana, Ives Garnier, told Diario Libre that Major Domingo Batista of Santo Domingo Este obliged him to endorse 50% of the shares in the garbage collection company to Batista’s representative, Marino Feliz, in order for the city government to make payments on its debts. Both Feliz and Batista have denied their …

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