Dolores Vicioso – Page 7282

President Hipolito Mejia, nine months into his leadership, has shuffled managers of the National Lottery, Civil Aviation, Customs, Migration, Post Office, Digenor, Inespre, Omsa and the Commission for the Reform of State Enterprises (Crep).  Anibal Amparo Garcia, who was the director of the Civil Aviation Board, was sent to direct the National Lottery.  Retired General …

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The General Controller of the Republic, Federico Lalane Jose denies that there are 350,000 employees on the Mejia administration payroll. He said it is true that 350,000 checks are being issued, but it is because many employees receive two to four salaries. He said that in many institutions, employees are let go and the cancellation …

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Teachers and students rejected a call by the Dominican Teachers Association not to go to school yesterday. It ended up being a relatively normal workday at most public schools in Santo Domingo. With only two weeks of classes left on the official school calendar, public school teachers and their students preferred not to heed the …

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The Dominican Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, Federico Cuello Camilo, says the DR needs to decide within the next two years what to do with its free zone industry. In an interview with El Caribe newspaper, he said that under our commitments to the WTO, the nation has two options: eliminate the special tax …

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Luis Bonilla, in charge of the banana policy department at the Ministry of Agriculture, forecasts the DR will export 100,000 metric tons of bananas this year. This would be equivalent to the record exports of the 1994 boom year.  He told El Caribe newspaper that the DR benefited from the reordering in the world banana …

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President Hipolito Mejia has transferred the responsibility to oversee the management of the propane gas subsidy to his Social Cabinet. Previously, it was managed by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Victor Manzanillo was appointed manager of the program. The subsidy is granted on the sale of 25, 50 and 100 gallons of gas purchased …

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