1999 – Page 73

Enrique Iglesias, president of the Interamerican Development Bank, in Santo Domingo for a meeting with chief economists and cabinet members of the Fernández administration, urged politicians to include the issue of the pending economic reforms in their political platforms. The DR is behind on the implementation of reduction of import tariffs and an increase in …

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The Fernández government officially appointed Roberto Saladín, former governor of the Central Bank, the Dominican Republic’s ambassador before the United States government. Saladín replaces Bernardo Vega, who resigned on 30 April. Vega had accepted the post in at the start of the Fernández administration, but at the time only agreed to stay in the post …

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President Leonel Fernández gave a speech to open the school year on Monday, 6 September, but classes did not start as the Dominican Professors Association (ADP) called a two-day strike. An ADP spokesman said it has instructed its members to show up for classes on Wednesday, 8 September, instead. The ADP wants the government to …

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The Civil Aviation Board justified granting exclusive US route exploitation rights to the grounded state airline, Dominicana Airlines in order to make it easier to find a strategic partner. The freeze on the concession of new rights to Dominican airlines will last seven years. Even if an adequate partner is found, Dominicana Airlines cannot fly …

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Hoy newspaper reports that so far this year 20 children have burned to death when their homes burned and they were unable to leave on time. Many of the children had been left alone by their parents that went out on errands. Over the weekend only, four children under five years died in similar circumstances. …

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Attorney General César Pina Toribio said that the Department of Prevention of Corruption under his office has distributed the pending 80 cases of corruption in his office among four assistance lawyers and seven auditors. The previous director of the office resigned, frustrated because none of the cases his office studied went beyond the study. El …

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Employees of the Dirección General de Tránsito Terrestre, the bureau which issues and renews drivers’ licenses, are striking protesting what they call discrimination by the new director of the bureau. They complain the new director is selectively applying salary raises, and has transferred employees. The new director, Ruben Feliz Lebreault says that the department is …

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El Siglo newspaper reports that public hospitals in the frontier provinces spend 50% of their resources on servicing Haitian patients. For humanitarian reasons, public hospitals located from Pedernales to Monte Cristi, along the frontier, offer emergency services to Haitians. El Siglo reports that most of the cases they see are births, tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria, injuries, …

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Dominican actress Indhira Mejía recovered her son, four-year old Ricardo Baio on Friday. The mother received him when he arrived at 2:30 pm by Iberia by way of Spain. He had been abducted by his father on 22 July 1999. The father had been spending the summer vacation with his son in La Romana when …

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TV producer Frederick Martinez, El Pachá, is interned in the intensive care unit of the Centro Medico UCE where he was taken to from Santiago. He was seriously injured in an accident when his Toyota Camry crashed with a Honda 70 motorcycle. The 21 year old driver of the motorcycle, Carlos David Sanchez died on …

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