1996News

New Peynado strategy

The PRSC presidential candidate, Jacinto Peynado, successfully held his first mass rally in Puerto Plata. Marking the start of a strong push to make the finals in the race for President, Mr Peynado changed his strategy and put aside his criticism of the Balaguer administration and the close collaborators of the regime. He has now …
1996News

Women to vote first

The JCE has decided that women will vote in the first session on election day following the new closed college voting scheme established by the modified electoral law. The president of the Junta Central Electoral, Dr. César Estrella Sadhalá, said on television last week that an estimated 3,700,000 people have the vote in the Dominican …
1996News

Peña Gómez returns

Dr. Jose Francisco Peña Gomez returned on 12 January to Santo Domingo after a tour of India, the United States, and France., according to a press release from the PRD. He attended the funeral of the former French President Francois Mitterand. He was present in his capacity as president of the International Socialist organization’s Committee …
1996News

Sugar cane growers say they are not paid because of the political use of CEA

The Federacion Dominicana de Colonos Azucareros (Fedoca), which groups sugar cane growers, said that the State Sugar Council (CEA) has not been able to pay off its debt with them, because it has been administered to favor political people who traditionally collect monthly checks from that institution. It condemned the practice in the CEA where …