Dolores Vicioso – Page 7220

Manuel Tejada, Deputy Minister of Public Health, said that drug supplies to public hospital stores are being resumed. He said the suspension was due to inventories being carried out in the Promese warehouses to determine the existence of unregistered pharmaceuticals, as claimed by drug importers and drug manufacturers. He mentioned that the drug companies are …

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President of the Chamber of Deputies Rafaela Alburquerque said that her party’s leader, former President Joaquin Balaguer, known for his reticence in taking on international loans, instructed his congressmen and women to not pass any more foreign loans. Nevertheless, she said Balaguer left each deputy to act on his/her own conscience when voting on the …

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PLD senator for La Romana Enrique Martinez said that the Senate needs to stop passing loans and immediately open an investigation into the legal owners and addresses of the companies with whom the government is negotiating loans and goods purchases. He said it is apparent that the government does not want transparency in regards to …

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President of the Senate Ramon Alburquerque admits that the US$10 million the Dominican government borrowed from the Spanish company Riogersa for the purchase of vehicles for the Air Force and equipment for the Ramon de Lara Military Hospital was passed in yesterday’s borrowing package to balance off money that had already been spent. Alburquerque told …

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If President Mejia gets his way and the government places the sovereign bonds this year, the PRD government would be increasing the nation’s foreign debt 35% this year, says El Siglo. The paper quotes PLD secretary General Reinaldo Pared Perez referring to the passage of US$719 million by the Senate and the US$500 million for …

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Andres Aybar Baez, president of the American Chamber of Commerce, expressed his concern over the number of short-term loans at high interest rates the government is contracting. He questioned the prudence of increased spending and borrowing at a time when the global economy is weakening. And he said that this borrowing is not necessary. He …

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Minister of Education Milagros Ortiz Bosch says the state of education is tragic. Recently, chief economist of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean, Guillermo Perry, pointed out in an interview with Hoy newspaper that the country spends less on education than other countries at the same level. The Vice President said the …

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El Siglo news commentator, Orlando Gil, says that apparently Haiti wants to obtain migration concessions from the DR in exchange for its vote in favor of the DR sitting on the UN Security Council. Mexico aspires to the same post. Haiti’s Minister of Foreign Relations Phillipe Antonio Joseph has said that Haiti has not decided …

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Nassim Alemany, president of the DR Association of Industries, has asked President Mejia not to sign the electricity bill. A spokesman for the National Palace said the bill would be signed this morning. Alemany warns that the law creates an oligopoly and would make the electricity sector inefficient. He said that if the bill is …

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