1996 – Page 75

The country’s most modern rice mill, built in Nagua for more than RD$300 million contributed by the Italian government and the Dominican Republic, has remained closed since its official opening last year because the government has not disbursed the RD$50 million it committed to lend to the cooperative of growers to put the mill to …

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The price of unleaded motor fuel has increased to RD$26.20 a gallon, following an increase in international prices for the product which is imported. Unleaded fuel fluctuates according to market prices, as it is not controlled by the government as in the case of the standard petrol.

Two more buildings have been added to the medical complex under construction on the grounds of the old Perla Antillana horse-racing track. A nursing school and an outpatient consultation building have been added to the “Plaza de la Salud”, complementing the maternity-infant, geriatric, and traumatology hospitals, together with the Center for Advanced Medicine, the headquarters …

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President Joaquin Balaguer has ordered the Telecommunications Department to shut down the transmissions of Medios Educativos S.A., which has been broadcasting on channel 6, causing interference with the established user of that frequency, Circuito Independencia. Since the frequency unification measure enforced by Telecommunications, which orders all stations to broadcast on only one frequency throughout the …

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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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