1996News

Leonel Fernández is against illegal tax to pay for political favors

Leonel Fernandez, presidential candidate of the PLD, won favor with businessmen last week, when he advocated the abolition of the consular invoice, or factura consular. The illegal government levy on imports favors those assigned to consulates abroad by way of personal enrichment, for past political support, to use the words of a former under minister …

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1996News

Alliances must be formally struck by 16 February says JCE

The political parties have until 16 February to formally announce political alliances. So far, the party with the most is the PRD and its Acuerdo de Santo Domingo coalition. It brings together the following minority parties: Partido de la Unidad Democrática (UD,), Partido Nacional de Veteranos y Civiles (PNFC), Partido Quisqueyano Demócrata (PQD), Partido Democrático …

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1996News

PRD secretary suggests calling in a foreign company to clean up voting list

The secretary general of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, Licenciado, Hatuey de Camps, has suggested that the JCE contract a foreign company to audit the padron electoral., or voters list. He said that in Mexico this was undertaken by a Canadian company with satisfactory results. The PRSC has protested against some 75,000 alleged irregularities, principally involving …

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1996 Travel News ArchiveTravel

Balancing money with the preservation of nature

The director of the Department of Parks, Colonel Pedro Candelier said at a ecotourism workshop, “Taller de Ecoturismo y Gestion Administrativo en las Areas Protegidas” sponsored by the Department of Parks and the Peace Corps of the United States, that the country can increase its revenue from ecotourism without spoiling the national parks and protected …

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