Dolores Vicioso – Page 8230

The almost RD$800 million debt of the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) to private electricity suppliers and the absence of electricity from the Smith-Enron power station in Puerto Plata, which disconnected from the CDE’s distribution network on 30 March because of lack of payment by the state-owned electricity company, continued to result in power cuts …

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The office of the Superintendent (Anthony, Superintendency? This is always difficult but Superintendency is not really the word to use in English so I am trying this new formula) of Insurance has lodged a formal complaint, now in the hands of the National Attorney General, Dr. Luis Nelson Pantaleon Gonzalez, against Rafael Castro and Jorge …

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President Joaquin Balaguer has paid approximately RD$280 million for the completion of various public works. The purpose of the monies, according to the director of the Public Works department Ramon Antonio Garcia Santos, will be the completion of the widening of the Autopista Duarte and the paving of hundreds of streets in the capital and …

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As of 12 April, an increase in the price of unleaded motor fuel was expected in the major filling stations of Santo Domingo. A RD$2.20 rise in the price of the “sin plomo” will take it to RD26.20 per gallon. The increase is a result of a RD$2.00 increment on the price charged by the …

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Liz Claiborne, one of the most successful women’s and men’s fashion designers in the U.S., is planning to open a shop in Santo Domingo in 1996, according to the Listin Diario newspaper. Her company, which has been exporting items from Free Zones here since 1992, will open the shop as part of an international expansion …

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The import restrictions imposed by the Ministries of Public Health and Agriculture two weeks ago against ice-cream, cakes, beverages and other dairy products and by-products from Great Britain and other European nations because of BSE, the so-called “Mad Cow” disease, have been lifted, in large part due to recommendations made to the D.R. by the …

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The Compañia Dominicana de Telefonos (CODETEL) recently published a paid advertisement in which it accuses an unnamed organization (widely thought to be the Dominican Institute of Consumer Orientation, together with the Committee for the Defense of Telephone Service Users) of committing “illicit” and illegal acts of sabotage against Codetel’s installations in Santo Domingo and creating …

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The more than five-month-old doctors’ strike in public hospitals and those of the Instituto Dominicano de Seguro Social (IDSS) would seem to be nearing its end. The Asociación Medica Dominicana (AMD) has decided to lift the strike only if the Ministry of Public Health pays salaries withheld for January, February and March (all months in …

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Representatives of the government’s Telecommunications Department, accompanied by members of the National Police, forced the shut down of re-transmissions to the Cibao region by the television stations ColorVision (channel 9 in Santo Domingo, 2 in the Cibao) and Rahintel (channel 7 in Santo Domingo, 11 in the Cibao). The transmitters used for the Cibao region …

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The Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad (CDE) is reported to owe the Smith-Enron company, which disconnected its power station in Puerto Plata from the state-owned electricity corporation’s distribution network on 30 March, approximately US$4,500,000. Representatives of Smith-Enron claim that their stock of fuel and other items needed to keep the power station operating have run out, …

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