Dolores Vicioso – Page 8232

Bienvenido Alvarez-Vega, writing for the newspaper Hoy, has words of praise for the present electoral campaign. “We are all widely pleased, or at least a large segment of our society, for the high levels, the tolerance and the enriching discussions that the electoral campaign has produced to date,” he writes. “The presidential candidates and the …

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The president of the Junta Central Electoral, César Estrella Sadhalá, said that the list of voters will be printed on fraud-proof paper which will make falsification impossible. He said that the paper is being especially imported for the election. “The voting list is guaranteed because it will be printed on security paper and it will …

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The JCE will be printing a smaller ballot for the 1996 election. The ballot, unlike in the past, will only contain spaces for the parties that are participating in the election. The order in which the parties appear on the ballot is determined by the number of votes they received in the 1994 election. In …

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The Junta Central Electoral has authorized 700 observers for the 16 May election. Of this number, 570 authorizations will be distributed among national institutions per electoral stations. The rest will go to foreign organisations. César Estrella Sadhalá, president of the electoral court, warned that neither the national nor the foreign observers will be able to …

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The president of the JCE, César Estrella Sadhalá, said that he has not observed in President Joaquín Balaguer any “sign of remaining in power” beyond 16 August. “I understand that the President of the Republic has not done anything, nor will do anything, to prolong his term. But then if there is a situation of …

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The Dominican U.S. sugar quota is now 41,411 metric tonnes, as a result of the decision by the Philippines not to accept the increase they were allotted. While it is believed the increase in the preferential quota will mean more hard currency being earned, as a large part of the sugar will be sold for …

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The Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana is leading an effort to motivate the authorities into investigating and stopping illegal occupation of private property throughout the country. The influential private agricultural business organization said that the illegal occupations are taking up the same pattern as has occurred prior to previous elections, which leads the JAD into thinking that …

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Thousands of bags of imported rice are being stored at Almacenes Dominicanos de Depósitos (Almadom), a customs approved warehouse, after arriving in the country on 30 March via the port of Haina. The shipment has met with opposition from the Federación Dominicana de Comerciantes, whose executive director, Danilo Clime, said that the marketing by rice …

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Nothing is new. The electricity shortage in the Dominican Republic is far from over. In the past four years, there has been a de facto privatization of the generation of power in the Dominican Republic in response to the reluctance of the government to invest in power stations. More than 40% of the electricity generated …

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Minister of Foreign Relations Carlos Morales Troncoso denied that the DR is among the Latin American countries placing obstacles to the importation of U.S. products. A press release from Washington D.C. revealed that President Clinton has blacklisted its principal seven trading partners and another six on the American continent obstructing U.S. exports. He said there …

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