2000 – Page 44

President Hipólito Mejía and nine regional statesmen signed the Caracas Energy Pact in Caracas, Venezuela yesterday. The agreement adds 20,000 barrels of petroleum to the 28,000 the DR is already purchasing in Venezuela. The agreement also establishes Venezuela will finance 25% of purchases at 2% interest rate and 15 year terms. Petroleum will be purchased …

Read more…

The Monetary Junta relaxed restrictions on money in circulation. The board authorizes the freeing of the ceiling to lending established in March and ratified on 22 August for another 60 days. It also authorized the redeeming of 50% of the investment in Certificados de Tesorería con Pacto de Recompra (Repos). The measures are expected to …

Read more…

Former PRSC La Altagracia senator, Amable Aristy Castro was confirmed in his post as secretary general of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD). The Chamber of Accounts thus ratifies the electoral results of the LMD general assembly of 26 January 1999. The position of head of the LMD is coveted because that department determines when and …

Read more…

The Police announced the arrest and arraignment of 32-year old Italian, Luciano Tola accused of seducing and sexually abusing four minors. The minors (ages 5, 14, 15, and 16) had been reported missing by their parents. Nelson Rosario, spokesman for the Police, said Tola bribed the minors with new clothing and cash payments to have …

Read more…

The director of the Hospital Luis Eduardo Aybar alerted that there has been an alarming increases in cases of colon cancer in the DR. He said that not a day goes by without the Gastroenterology Center of the hospital, the leading public center for this type of ailment, diagnosing a case of colon cancer. Dr. …

Read more…

In decree 974-00, President Hipolito Mejia appointed economist Luis Alvarez Renta economic advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Relations with rank of ambassador. Alvarez Renta has been an advisor to Presidents before. He is a leading consultant to large Dominican business and is known as an expert in mergers and acquisitions.

The Haitian government formally requested through its Ministry of Foreign Relations the repatriation of six policemen that fled to the DR, crossing the border legally. The Haitian government accuses them of conspiring to overthrow the Preval government. The group would like to be allowed to continue on to Ecuador, where they studied and several have …

Read more…

Colonel Nelson Rosario, spokesman for the Police, said that advances have been made on the case of Frenchman Thierry Deve, owner of a restaurant in Juan Dolio who recently denounced being raped at a Police precinct in San Pedro de Macorís. Rosario said that Deve identified agent Hilton Paredes Rodríguez as whom put a gun …

Read more…

Former President Leonel Fernández participated in the eDevelopment conference (19-20 October in Cambridge, Massachusetts) organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Center for International Development at Harvard University and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Fernández was one of several speakers invited to help bring an understanding to the …

Read more…