1999 – Page 83

The new director of the CEA, engineer Felix Alcántara said that he was appointed to put a stop to the invasion of CEA lands by opportunists. He said he has received precise instructions from President Leonel Fernandez to get rid of all the obstacles impeding the expedite privatization of the CEA lands and sugar mills. …

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El Siglo carries an interview with Jorge Costa, general manager of Dixi-Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas on garbage collecting in Santo Domingo. Costa says the company is picking up 1,900-2,000 tons of garbage a day, using Dixi Sanitary equipment. FCC supposedly purchased the Dixi contract from the government, although a legal tangle evolved when a …

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A process that should have begun in April, was begun on Monday. The process of issuing vehicle’s registration stickers was delayed when American Note, the contractor, delayed in delivering the stickers. The DGII, nevertheless, is applying the charge retroactively. The stickers can be purchased at the offices of the DGII, Postal office booths, Baninter, Banco …

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El Siglo reports that the University of North Carolina will be providing technical support to trainers and athletes of the DR as they prepare for the 2003 Pan American Games that will be held in Santo Domingo. Dr. José Joaquín Puello, president of the Dominican Olympic Committee, advanced that an agreement to this end will …

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President Leonel Fernández made changes in his cabinet over the weekend. News reports say that most of the new cabinet members are strong supporters of Vice President Jaime David Fernández who lost the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana primaries to Secretary of the Presidency Danilo Medina. President Fernández appointed Ana Silvia Reynoso, president of the …

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El Siglo newspaper highlights the new challenges ahead for new Attorney General Cesar Pina Toribio, who was only recently appointed. Pina Toribio previously was judicial consultant to the Executive Branch. He faces lots of work and a low budget, the overpopulation of Dominican prisons (12,000 of 15,000 inmates do not have sentences), some 70 requests …

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Seaboard Corporation announced it may bring a barge-power plant with capacity for 122 megawatts in February 2000. The US company won the tender to become the owner of 50% of the shares of the Haina-Itabo power plant park. Several of the plants in this park need major maintenance work and the company will be bringing …

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The president of the Commission for the Reform of Public Enterprises (CREP), Antonio Isa Conde said Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) presidential candidate Hipólito Mejía would be violating the law if he does not respect the privatization of the Barahona sugar mill. Mejía was on campaign in the southwestern province on Saturday, and said that he …

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The National Police closed down 60 entertainment centers, rescuing 114 minors. The parents of these and the proprietors of the places illicitly employing the minors will be sent to justice, according to a note from the Police. Billiards centers, whorehouses, bars, car washes, cabarets, and sports gambling centers were closed down over the weekend in …

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A naive Dominican hopes that at least by telling her story publicly, she may avoid that others become unknowing victims like herself. Miguelina Gómez is suffering the consequences of having signed as guarantor for a Tunisian-French woman, Carmeline Laure Calo de Nettune, who she had befriended at the Casa de Francia, the former cultural center …

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