2000 – Page 48

The Mejía cabinet met in Nagua, María Trinidad Sánchez province. Following the weekend meeting, President Hipólito Mejía announced the construction of a free zone in Nagua and another in Río San Juan. He also announced the construction of schools, a branch of the state university, highways, streets, rural roads, aqueducts, clinics, a postal office, a …

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President Hipólito Mejía attributed the forecasted two-digit inflation at year’s end to the high cost of petroleum. He said that the government will have to spend US$1,200 million more on fuel purchases this year. The Central Bank has reported that accumulated inflation is 7.03% in September, but inflation at year’s end is forecast to be …

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Just hours after the director of the Oficina Técnica del Transporte Terrestre, Antonio Reynoso had warned that he was about to confiscate yellow taxis "pollitos" (baby chicks) that had been distributed to persons that were not taxi drivers before, President Hipólito Mejía announced that those that had their pollitos could keep them. "The people that …

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The Ministry of Public Works and the City of Santo Domingo announced that the new one-way street direction for the Polígono Central area of Santo Domingo will be effective as of 6 am on Tuesday, 17 October. The new direction of the streets is to reduce traffic bottlenecks in the area where shopping and residential …

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Jose Ovalle, director of the Corporación de Fomento Industrial that operates 16 state-owned free zone parks announced that the government is interested in selling these to the private business. Preference will be given to owners of businesses already operating in each free zone. Ovalle said that the money would be used for the government to …

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Plaza de la Salud, the advanced medicine government-owned hospital complex, announced the start of operations of the Centro Latinoamericano de Residencias Médicas de Imágenes Diagnósticas (Claremid), a Latin American medical internship program. The center has the support of the Centro de Diagnóstico, Medicina Avanzada, Laboratorio y Telemedicina (Cedimat) and the Hospital General Materno Infantil of …

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President Hipólito Mejía appointed new members to the Organizing Committee of the Pan American Games. The committee thus was expanded from 21 members to 33 members. The new members are: Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, Minister of the Armed Forces Jose Miguel Soto Jiménez, Minister of Public Works Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Minister of Sports Cesar …

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Attorney General Virgilio Bello Rosa said that Judge Modesto Martínez of the Eighth Penal Chamber left without effect the summons for Police Chief Pedro de Jesús Candelier to appear in court to answer questions. He was being required to explain why several persons were kept in jail when they had not been charged. Bello Rosa …

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