1999 – Page 227

In an interview with Hoy newspaper, the head of the tramway project has provided some more details of the project up for bids next month. Etienne Lhomet, representative of Semaly, the French transport consulting company overseeing the project, explained that the first stage of the tramway will consist of the eleven kilometers running along Avenida …

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Attorney-General Mariano Germ?n said yesterday that as of yesterday his office would step up scrutiny of all public works to ensure no corruption in such construction projects goes unpunished. In a press conference at his office with Justo Pedro Castellanos, Director of the Department of Corruption Prevention, at his side, Germ?n announced strict vigilance of …

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The judge in charge of the investigation into the 1994 disappearance (and presumed murder) of Professor Narciso Gonz?lez ("Narcisazo") yesterday interrogated for eight hours a former Armed Forces chief, retired General Juan Bautista Rojas Tabar, about what he knows concerning the case. Judge Eduardo S?nchez Ort?z indicated that he will call the retired general back …

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Former secretary general of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD) who sought to be re-elected, Julio Mar??ez of the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, authorized his party’s mayors to receive their city government funding from the LMD head by La Altagracia province senator, Amable Aristy Castro. The mayors had requested the funding be rerouted through the Treasury, but …

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President Leonel Fern?ndez received the accreditation of the ambassadors of Cuba, Switzerland and Surinam yesterday at the National Palace. The ambassador of Cuba is 47-year old Miguel Gustavo P?rez Cruz, who first came to the DR as consul general of that island. P?rez is a career diplomat, graduate in law with studies at the Diplomatic …

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President Leonel Fern?ndez said that the DR will soon begin to discuss the signing of a free trade agreement with Cuba. He told Rumbo newsweekly magazine that this would be a first time a Socialist country such as Cuba signs a free trade agreement with an open market country. The country has already signed free …

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The Minister of Education of Cuba, Dr. Fernando Vecino Alegret was the key man in the ground breaking ceremony of a polytechnic school in Ban? to be funded by Cuban moneys as promised by Cuban president Fidel Castro during his visit to the DR last year. Cuba’s independence movement leader, M?ximo G?mez is from Ban?. …

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The Ministry of Agriculture will enforce measures to limit areas where tobacco can be grown. Following a boom in cigar sales, farmers in the central Cibao area began planting tobacco everywhere, resulting in an overabundance of inferior quality tobacco leafs. Minister of Agriculture Am?lcar Romero said that since 1963 the government has limited the areas …

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The National Senate passed unanimously a bill that seeks to promote Dominican exports in general. The bill had been submitted to Congress on 18 November 1998. The bill was included on the agenda yesterday. The Senate acted upon the law responding to general criticism given the low productivity of the organization that is known to …

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The Dominican Republic imported 10,719,032 metric tons of cargo from January to December 1998. Export cargo was only 1,672,993 metric tons. The nation balances its high import bill with receipts from the export of free zone and tourism services. Most of the cargo entered the DR by the Haina Oriental and Haina Occidental ports in …

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