2000 – Page 4

Minister of Environment Frank Moya Pons traveled to Haiti to give the formal start to the Transfrontier Development Environmental Program. The European Union through Lomé IV is a major sponsor of the US$4 million four-year program. Moya Pons was in Haiti to give the final go ahead to the 2001 Annual Operations Plan of the …

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The Ministry of Environment has sent a 20-day ultimatum-legal notice to Refrescos Nacinales, manufacturers of Coca Cola in the DR, to install all necessary precautions to reduce noise and other contamination in the Arroyo Hondo area where they operate a facility. Neighbors of the area have complained for years about the pollution caused by the …

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The Santiago-base Comandancia Cibao Central of the National Police and the National Department of Investigations (DNI) said they have dismantled a clandestine print shop where they confiscated RD$15 million, US$700,000 and thousands of Haitian gourdes, all false. Lieutenant Colonel Valentín Rosado Vicioso made the announcement. The print shop operated in a house in the Villa …

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El Siglo newspaper points out that the slow down in the economy of the United States will definitely have an effect on the Dominican Republic. The newspaper points out that real gross domestic product (the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States) increased at an annual rate …

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Juan Hubieres, a minibus union leader, accuses the new director of the Oficina Metropolitana de Servicios de Autobuses (OMSA) of turning that government public transport bus service into a family business for his own profit. Hubieres, president of the Federación Nacional de Transporte La Nueva Opción denounced that the director Diógenes Castillo is acting with …

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In recent years fireworks for individual use had been banned for safety reasons. The National Police says that this year the sale of fireworks will be again legal. The Police explains that the Ministry of Interior and Police has authorized the sale of fireworks to consumers in general. The Ministry of Interior and Police explained …

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The administrator of the Dominican Electricity Corporation, CDE, César Sánchez, says in a report in El Siglo newspaper that the delays on behalf of power distributors in making the contract stipulated investments to improve power substations is one of the main reasons the country is experiencing blackouts. He said the power substations are not able …

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The judicial authorities transferred past government contractor Felix Abreu, the former director of the Office for Coordinating Public Works, engineer Felix Bautista, the former director of the PEME program, a sort of welfare institution that gave out checks to unemployed potential troublemakers, and PEME check cashier Grecia Maria Peguero Rivera, as well as Leon López …

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The Instituto Dominicano de Seguros Sociales (IDSS) announced the firing of two of its employees after an IDSS team in San Pedro de Macorís denounced they were being pressured to hand in RD$150,000 and RD$250,000 to the persons in charge of IDSS collections in the eastern region. The IDSS fired Fernando Ramírez, in charge of …

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El Caribe newspaper reports that the top priority for Indotel, the Institute of Telecommunications, is the installation of the new rural telephone system. Orlando Jorge told the newspaper that in 2001, his department would work hard to reorganize the radio frequencies, especially seeking to resolve the chaos of 22 stations transmitting along the 27 de …

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