1999 – Page 242

Two loan agreements were signed in Rome yesterday as part of President Fern?ndez’s European tour. A "Joint Declaration of Development Cooperation," signed by Dominican Technical Secretary Tem?stocles Mont?s and Italian Foreign Relations Subsecretary Mario Serri, opens a US$140 million line of credit for diverse projects in the DR. A second loan agreement signed with the …

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The Foreign Ministry has sent Wenceslao Guerrero to the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince to monitor the political crisis unfolding in the Haitian capital. The Ministry said that the step was necessary because of continuing Senate delays in approving journalist Silvio Herasme Pe?a as Dominican Ambassador to Haiti. Foreign Relations Subsecretary Alejandro Herrera said that the …

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After all the denials that he would travel to the U.S. to see doctors, ex-President Dr. Joaqu?n Balaguer quietly departed yesterday morning to Houston, Texas, where he was admitted to Central Methodist Hospital. The 92-year old leader of the Reformista Party (PRSC) flew out at 6:35 am in a special plane from San Isidro Air …

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The news daily Listin Diario reports that the Reformista Party (PRSC) and the Central Elections Board (JCE) have worked out a compromise to resolve the five-month political battle over the JCE. Under the formula worked out between PRSC President Donald Reid Cabral and JCE Chairman Ram?n Morel Cerda, the number of JCE members would be …

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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 ordered the imprisonment of another Dominican Air Force (FAD) officer. Seventh Circuit Court judge Eduardo S?nchez Ort?z ordered the incarceration of FAD Major Adelcio Mart?nez Ram?rez, one of the FAD officials implicated in the case. …

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The National Federation of Dominican Transporters (FENATRADO) yesterday paralyzed the Port of East Haina by blocking its solitary entrance/exit with their trucks for seven hours. The protest was held from 6:00 am until 1:00 pm, the principal working hours of the port. The event was part of a FENATRADO campaign to get the government to …

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The President of the local affiliate of Shell, Pedro Pablo Cabral, yesterday accused the Dominican Electricity Corporation (CDE) of engaging in unfair competition. He said that CDE imported directly during 1998 some 2.3 million barrels of combustibles, without participation of authorized distributors and without paying the "differential tax" private distributors must pay that keeps local …

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President Leonel Fern?ndez appealed, during his state visit to Paris, to the international community to help Haiti improve its economy, the living conditions of Haitians and strengthen that country’s institutions. He said that the worsened political crisis is bad news for the DR as more Haitian citizens will choose to illegally migrate to the DR, …

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Hoy newspaper reports that a French firm has won the tender to administrate the Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo. The newspaper says that the information came from sources accompanying the President on his visit to Europe. Reportedly, the president of the winning firm presides the Association of Operators of French Airports. The firm …

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King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain will visit the DR in May of this year, Minister of Foreign Relations Eduardo Latorre announced. The visit was confirmed during the stopover President Fern?ndez and his committee made in Madrid, on route to Paris. The King and Queen of Spain will also visit Havana, Cuba on …

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