Dolores Vicioso – Page 7247

President Hipolito Mejia will travel to Bahamas to participate with observer status in deliberations of the XXII Summit of Caricom Heads of Government from 4-6 July. The press department of the Presidency, says President Mejia will take advantage of the meeting to push for the start of the implementation of the Caribbean Free Trade Agreement …

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Colonel Miguel Martinez Roa, director of the National Office for Information Technology, an Executive Branch dependency, announced the start of a program to help government employees purchase computers. The program, “Programa una computadora para cada empleado publico” will provide low cost financing through the state commercial bank, Banco de Reservas, so that each public employee …

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President Hipolito Mejia told Listin Diario that the government is ready to eliminate all restrictions and establish incentives and special facilities to attract the savings of Dominicans living abroad. President Mejia said that Dominicans have thousands in savings in the US and the country needs to put into place mechanisms to lure these savings to …

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PLD deputies acted against the dividing up of the National District into three provinces and a National District (city of Santo Domingo at the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. The PLD opposes the bill sent by the Executive Branch on grounds it would only mean more government spending for the creation of the new departments without …

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The Chamber of Deputies passed the bill that creates the International Free Zone for Trade, Industry and Finances in the province of San Pedro de Macoris. Special areas will be set up adjacent to the Higuamo River for the free zone areas where merchandise, equipment, in puts and raw materials will enter duty free.

The president of the Renaissance Development Corporation, Rodrigo Montealegre wrote to clarify errors in an information published in the DR1 Daily News yesterday. Montealegre explains that the part of the tower that is scheduled to open in May 2002 is the Citibank Tower. The tower will be delivered to purchasers in January 2002 for these …

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The Association of Free Zone Industries of Santiago is urging the Distribuidora de Electricidad del Norte, Edenorte, to correct what they consider irregularities in the billing. The Santiago companies say that the decline in power consumption as a result of a drop in production following a slowdown in their number of orders has not shown …

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Despite an intense search over the past six days, military and police have not been able to locate the illusive Angel Martinez Candelario, alias Angito. Angito is suspect of having murdered former chief of the Armed Forces Juan Rene Beauchamps Javier and others in the Cabrera area, in the northeastern Maria Trinidad Sanchez province. The …

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Senator Ginette Bournigal de Jimenez (PRD-Puerto Plata) said that her family decided to not go ahead with the sale of a large property in the Bahia de Maimon area. They had accepted a 20% down payment, with remaining payments due over a six-month period. She said they were unaware the property would be used for …

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The Senate begins today the public hearings on the issuing of US$500 million in sovereign bonds. The bonds have strong support from the President, but have met with opposition from most business groups that oppose the government increasing the foreign debt. The government appealed to senators to move on the sovereign bond bill, alerting that …

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