Dolores Vicioso – Page 8108

The presidential candidates agreed not to campaign over the Christmas holidays and all spent the time abroad. Dr Peña Gómez spent the end of 1995 travelling in India and then went on to Spain where he met with Felipe González. Dr. Leonel Fernandez, the candidate for the Partido de la Liberación Dominican (PLD), was in …

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A private polling company has determined that 39.5 percent of voter preference favors José Francisco Peña Gómez, with Leonel Fernandez placed second, with 34.8 percent. The PRSC candidate, Jacinto Peynado, is given 16.8 percent. The poll revealed that in almost all provinces, Dr Peña is ahead. The polling company, Centro Datos Paulino Sem covered 2,397 …

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The PRSC has requested the exclusion of more than 125,000 names from the padron electoral, or voter’s list. The request was made by a PRSC committee that visited the JCE, headed by presidential candidate Jacinto Peynado and the party’s president, Dr. Donald Reid Cabral. The PRSC is requesting the removal of 73,747 cases of late …

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The director of the Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Estatales (CORDE), Mr. Pedro Bretón, said that a contract is about to be signed with a foreign firm to exploit the country’s marble, salt, and gypsum mines. According to Mr. Breton, the marble will be quarried in Samana and Vicente Noble, and the salt and gypsum extracted …

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Mr. Jaime Viñas Betances, former president of Instituciones Financieras (Ainfi), said that the last set of regulations issued by the monetary authorities limit the operation of this type of business. “These limitations must be corrected with complementary measures that will ease the granting of credit.” Mr. Viñas Betances added that “The necessary extra cost imposed …

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In reply to accusations that he had bought red beans belonging to INESPRE on the black market, Mr Radhamés Montesinos, the president of Casa Radhamés, said that he bought them directly from the INESPRE warehouses in Santo Domingo, “and not in an irregular manner on the Lucas Diaz bridge in Bani, as the Diaz brothers …

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The former governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Hugo Guilliani Cury, while speaking at a seminar organized by APEC University on globalization focussed on the Exchange System and Domestic Savings. He said, “The level of domestic saving is RD$18,000 million, 13 percent of the GDP. Dominicans overseas have over RD$20,000 million. If we are able …

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Mr. Horacio Alvarez, executive director of the Asociación Dominicana de Exportadores (ADOEXPO), said that “Traditional Dominican exports will decrease each year that goes by due to the lack of a financial program for the domestic productive sector.” He added that “agricultural exports have lessened due to the high interest rate of 30 percent. Other countries …

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Free zone exports for the first quarter of the year increased by 26 percent in relation with the same period last year. Their total exports were RDRD$6,994.4 million compared to RD$5,549.6 million last year. According to Mr. Francisco Amézquita Candelier, executive director of the Centro Dominicano de Promoción de Exportaciones, (CEDOPEX), total exports of traditional …

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The manager of the Banco Agrícola, Mr. Sánchez Roa, said that in the first seven months of the year the Bank has disbursed a total of RD$567.6 million. The loans favoured the food production and export sectors. 5,000 tonnes of sorghum Mr. Manuel Tejada, president of the Federación de Productores y Campesinos Azucanos (FEPROCA INC) …

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