2000 – Page 124

El Siglo newspaper reports that the delays in Congress passing the General Electricity Bill has left the country without an agile mechanism to approve power generation projects. Internal interests within the Senate have impeded the approval of the bill. The new bill establishes that the projects only need presidential approval. The ruling that is in …

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The Senate approved the "Ley General de Juventud", or a General Youth Bill that would create a new government ministry, the Secretaría de la Juventud. The bill now passes on to the Chamber of Deputies. The PRD majority congress recently passed the bill creating the Ministry of Culture. During the Fernández government, the Ministry of …

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El Siglo newspaper features an extensive interview with several environmental specialists that criticize the modifications the environmental bill has suffered in the Chamber of Deputies. Moises Alvarez, national coordinator for Capacidad 21; Sixto Inchaustegui, environmental officer of the United Nations Development Plan and environmental expert Jose Rafael Almonte met at El Siglo to stress that …

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The District Attorney sent to justice a case for money laundering against Carlos Federico Herrera Dalmasí. Recently, Herrera Dalmasí was able to escape his kidnappers after 45 days. Reportedly, he was kidnapped after leaving unresolved drug matters pending in the United States with Dominican and Colombian drug dealers. The DA says that Herrera Dalmasí is …

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The president of the National Association of Importers, Distributors and Transporters of Propane Gas and the executive vice president of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, Pedro Pablo Cabral advocated the elimination of the government subsidy on propane gas sales. In a press conference, they said that the subsidy costs the government RD$1,500 million a year. Propane …

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Senator Bautista Rojas Gomez (PLD-Salcedo) said that the PRD is responsible for not passing the bill that would enable local petrol prices to fluctuate as per international prices. President Fernández sent the bill to Congress in November 1999, after the government increased petrol prices in October. The increase in petrol prices met with opposition by …

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CSX World Terminals announced it has reached an agreement with Caucedo Development Corporation to develop a trans-shipment terminal at the Caucedo peninsula adjacent to the Las Americas International Airport on the outskirts of Santo Domingo. Each company will have a 50% ownership. CSW World Terminals will be in charge of the development, marketing and administration …

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President Leonel Fernández expressed his regrets to President Rene Preval of Haiti for the tragic death of six Haitians in El Copey, Monte Cristi. Minister of Foreign Relations Eduardo Latorre, also notified his counterpart, Minister of Foreign Relations Fritz Longchamp, and lamented the tragic outcome of a military pursuit. Both guaranteed the Haitian government that …

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President-elect Hipolito Mejia confirmed that Jose Miguel Soto Jiménez, born in Santiago in March 1956, will be the next Minister of the Armed Forces. Mejía made the announcement during his visit to Washington, D.C. Soto Jiménez at present is the nation’s military attaché assigned to the Dominican Embassy in Washington, D.C. He began his military …

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