1998News

Total exports up 20% in 1997

Cedopex, the Dominican Export Promotion Center, reported that Dominican exports of goods were up 20.5% in 1997. Industrial free zone exports grew 24%, increasing to US$2,322.2 million, US$445.1 million more than in 1996. Dominican exports were up by 13.34%. The nation exported US$946.9 million in 1997, US$111.5 million more than in 1996.
1998News

President of deputies reprimanded

The leader of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD), Dr. José Francisco Peña Gómez, reprimanded the president of the Chamber of Deputies, PRD deputy Hector Peguero Méndez, for confronting deputy Andrés Vanderhorst of the Partido Liberal La Estructura. The president of the chamber changed the locks on Vanderhorst’s office at the chamber and fired Vanderhorst’s personnel …