1999 – Page 33

Senator Rafael de Jesus Jiménez (PRD-Dajabón) says that all Haitians that are deported during the day return to the DR at night. Dajabón is a province on the frontier with Haiti. He said, "There is no way to stop them until there is a bilateral agreement and Haiti improves its social and economic situation. "If …

Read more…

Health advisor to the Executive Branch, former Minister of Public Health Altagracia Guzmán says that it is urgent the DR put in place migratory controls to avoid that the advent of impoverished illegal Haitians to the DR bring with it an increase in tetanus, tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS. She said that the Haitian women that …

Read more…

Haitian sociologist Carl Denis writes in El Siglo newspaper that Haiti is much worse off today than prior to the 1991 OAS-sponsored embargo to reinstate Jean Bertrand Aristide. Denis says that as a result of the embargo, Haiti lost thousands of direct and indirect jobs (in free zones), the cost of living skyrocketed, and the …

Read more…

El Siglo carries today a report on intrafamily violence reports at the Department of Protection of Women at the National Police. Major Emilia Kelly Santana says that there have been 6,439 complaints of domestic violence placed at the department in the first 10 months of the year. She says during the same period last year …

Read more…

Baseball fans will not want to miss the match between star Major League pitchers, Dominicans Pedro Martínez and José Lima next year in Santo Domingo. The exhibition games between the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros will take place 11-12 March 2000 at the Santo Domingo Quisqueya Ballpark. on 11-12 March 2000. The announcement …

Read more…

The Customs Bureau (Dirección General de Aduanas) announced that the tax exemptions on gifts brought by expatriate Dominicans to friends and relatives starts 1 December and ends 7 January. To qualify for not paying taxes on gifts valued at up to US$1,000, Dominicans may be asked to prove they have been abroad for at least …

Read more…

The Dominican Republic was admitted to the Executive Council of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The DR will be one of four nations to represent Latin America and the Caribbean on the board. The new regional members of the board are Peru (153 votes), DR (148 votes), Chile (131 votes) and …

Read more…

The Central Bank announces that new bills are being issued to commemorate the new millennium. They will begin circulating towards the end of December. The Monetary Junta has authorized the issuing of a RD$2,000 bill for the first time in the DR. The blue and gray bill features the effigies of the author of the …

Read more…

The director of the Department of Migration, Danilo Díaz said they dismantled a band of smugglers of Chinese citizens. The Chinese would travel to the DR to then attempt to make it illegally to Puerto Rico (by boat) to Puerto Rico. Díaz said that the band made up by Dominicans and Chinese residents in the …

Read more…

The government announced the start of construction of a dike to prevent flooding in Tamayo. The southwestern town was devastated by mud floods when Yaque del Sur River overflowed shortly after Hurricane Georges in September 1998. The government’s Hydraulic Resources Institute (INDRHI) announced that construction has begun on the RD$26 million, 2.72-kilometer long/ 4 meter …

Read more…