Dolores Vicioso – Page 7496

The Presidency is putting a ban on first class travel by government officers. The executive office announced that President Hipólito Mejía himself will set the example traveling to the United Nations Millennium Summit in economy class and on a commercial airliner. The Listín Diario, in an editorial today comments on the new style of the …

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The Listin Diario newspaper announces that King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain will visit the Dominican Republic in mid November. The Spanish monarchs make a two-day stopover prior to participating in the Iberoamerican Summit scheduled for Panama City in November of this year. The King and Queen are accepting an invitation made originally …

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Secretary general of the North Chapter of Colegio Dominicano de Ingenieros, Arquitectos y Agrimensores (Codia), the leading association of engineers and architects in the DR, William Reyna told Listin Diario that the US, France, Italy and Japan are working together on the installation in Pimentel, in the Northeast of the country, of a sophisticated seismological …

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The Senate passed seven loan contracts with international financial organizations totaling US$131 million. President Hipólito Mejía had urged their approval. These are: Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos (Indrhi) and the Banco de Comercio Exterior de Colombia. US$18 million for the Los Tres Saltos hydroelectric project. Financing of the development of farming projects for small and …

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According to the president of the Senate, Ramón Alburquerque, President Hipólito Mejía promised to prepare a bill incorporating the contents of Decree 618-00 by which the Mejía administration had authorized unionized taxi drivers the import of duty-free vehicles for transport and cargo transporters a reduction in tariffs on new trucks down to 8%. The President …

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One million, two hundred lbs. of poultry that was frozen in warehouses on behalf of the Instituto Nacional de Estabilización de Precios, a government organization whose role has been constantly changing. The imported chickens spent eight months stored in the cold room of Frisi Dominicana that charged Inespre RD$0.30 per lb. The chickens were valued …

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Dominican musician-composer Michael Camilo will share the stage with Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Cachao Lopez, David Sanchez, Celia Cruz, Arturo Sandoval and Dave Valentín that will honor the late Tito Puente during the Grammy Latino Awards ceremony slated for 13 September. The Awards will be transmitted by CBS.

President Hipolito Mejia is scheduled to speak at the Millennium Summit in the United Nations in New York City on the afternoon of 6 September. "We are going to discuss neoliberalism, the need to feed our populations, the problem of our neighboring country, the Latin American crisis, the little attention received from some organizations, the …

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The Government Council established a public sector austerity plan that freezes the government payroll and establishes a reduction of 10% on salaries of government officers, including those with positions in autonomous and decentralized institutions. Earlier, President Hipólito Mejía had announced a 40% cut in salaries, starting with his own, but apparently this did not appeal …

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President Hipólito Mejía placed under the newly created Ministry of Environment all equipment and personnel of the Plan Nacional Quisqueya Verde. The Quisqueya Verde program was a very successful reforestation effort directed by former Vice President Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal. The program converted rural inhabitants that had been destroying forests into planters of trees by …

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