Dolores Vicioso – Page 7528

President-elect Hipolito Mejía announced that he will create a Ministry of the Diaspora to manage affairs of Dominicans living abroad. He said Antonio Torres would be the first Minister. Speaking in Miami prior to returning to Santo Domingo after a Caribbean cruise last week, he also promised to eliminate the consular invoice and said he …

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Minister of Labor Rafael Alburquerque said that 60% of the public employees, or about 263,000 are PRD sympathizers. In his opinion, the new government will not be able to fire state employees that have been given administrative career status.

Power generators have resorted to shutting off their plants to pressure the Fernandez government into leaving mechanisms for the automatic payment of arrears, and in demand for payment. As a result, the power deficit peaked at 600 megawatts over the weekend, with demand at 1,500 megawatts. In the DR, the outages primarily affect lower middle …

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The newly created Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarn) will oversee the development of tourism, industrial, real estate, mining, port, and agriculture projects. The new entity will be an umbrella-type government department. Under its wing will be: Department of Natural Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Parks, National Planning Office’s Department of …

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Pedro Franco Badía denounced cases of high salaries in the government, especially of persons without a specific job. He said the most spectacular case he found is that of a family that is employed by the Civil Aviation Board. Jesucita Hernández is deputy director of Civil Aviation, her husband Manuel Alfredo Rivera is in charge …

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Local cheese manufacturers strongly oppose the 84% additional tax on imported powdered milk. They complain it will kill their sales, as imported dairy products that are exempt from the tax will be much cheaper. Furthermore, mported dairy products already have lower production costs than Dominican dairy products as they are made from subsidized milk. Furthermore, …

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Painter and former leftist Silvano Lora, who is dying of terminal cancer, said yesterday in the trial to determine the culprits of the murder of journalist Orlando Martínez in 1975 that former President Joaquín Balaguer confessed to cattle ranchers Cesareo Contreras, Joselyn Rodriguez Conde and Juan Biaggi that "those four killed him", referring to top …

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