1997 – Page 13

The director of the Oficina Coordinadora de Obras del Estado, engineer Felix Bautista, said that the government would continue the Avenida del Puerto, expanding the river-bordering avenue along the Ozama and Isabela rivers.

Press reports indicated that U.S. authorities arrested a Dominican, nationalized Canadian, who they accuse of hijacking a New York-Puerto Rico flight with 90 persons on board to take to Cuba in 1969. Peterson left Cuba in the 80s returning to the Dominican Republic, where he met his present wife with whom he traveled to Canada, …

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The government and the private sector will inject over RD$11 million into the economy during the next two weeks. The extra salary, or Christmas bonus, is expected to rev up sales in stores throughout the country. The businesses will be paying from RD$6 to RD$10 thousand million, according to spokesman for business organizations, while the …

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The Listín Diario in its Friday, 12 December headline said that Customs director Miguel Cocco, a close aide of President Leonel Fernández, and former president Joaquín Balaguer and his close aide Guaroa Liranzo, met at the home of the former president to negotiate an alliance of the PLD and the PRSC for the congressional election …

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A draught is affecting plantations of tobacco in the Cibao region, according to Alberto García, president of the National Federation of Tobacco Producers. García said that 30% of the production of the tobacco leaf has been lost as a result of the draught.

The District Attorney’s office sent the case against senator for Pedernales Antonio Feliz Pérez to the Supreme Court of Justice. The senator is involved in the scandal whereby beach lands in the Bahia de las Aguilas area were appropriated irregularly through the Dominican Agrarian Institute. The senator supposedly returned the land titles to the Attorney …

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Senators Milagros Ortiz Bosch (PRD-National District) and Frank Martínez (PRSC-La Romana) are in favor of the Executive Branch sending to the National Congress the contract signed in the past Balaguer Government with the Smith-Enron power utility. The senators concurred that the state power utility, the Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad, is being irregularly pressured by the …

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Rafael Camilo, director of the National Planning Office, said that the government will not sit for new talks with the Chamber of Deputies regarding the national budget. Camilo said that the government already had reached agreements with the Senators and Deputies for the approval of the RD$38.7 thousand million budget this month. The deputies want …

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Licenciada Grecia Fiordaliza Pichardo, recently appointed consul general in Cuba by President Leonel Fernández, becomes the first government officer to represent the Dominican Republic in Cuba, following the interruption of relations in 1960. At the time of her appointment, she was the Dominican consul in Montreal, Canada. A graduate of economy at the Universidad Autónoma …

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The National Police is giving motorcyclists ten days to purchase and begin wearing protective helmets. The Police, which four weeks ago began enforcing regulations contained in Law 241 on traffic, says motorcyclists also have ten days to install mufflers and correct any problems with their lights. The Police has announced that motorcyclists found in violation …

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