2000 – Page 66

The Eighth National Population and Home Census will be carried out at the end of 2001, announced Rafael Calderón, Technical Secretary of the Presidency. He said the government estimates the 2001 Census will cost around RD$217 million. The previous census was carried out in 1993, but statisticians say the results were not satisfactory or trustworthy. …

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The director of the Corporación de Fomento Industrial, José Ovalles announced yesterday that foreign investors have committed to build an industrial complex north of Boca Chica. The government will be providing a 3.5 million square meter lot in the area, where the three-part industrial complex, to be known as Distrito Industrial, will go up. The …

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The Mejía government authorized the restart of negotiations leading towards the holding of an international tender to choose the international mining company that would exploit the Pueblo Viejo sulfide resources. In 1997, the past Fernández administration had secured the services of Salomon Brothers to carry out the tender. This projected eight-month process which was advertised …

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Hoy newspaper reports that its sources indicate the Armed Forces has created three commands to reinforce Dominican-Haiti frontier patrols. Some 1,500 men have been assigned to the units that will be rotated every 30 days. The rotation is so that the military do not have time to become part of the culture of contraband that …

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Political commentators have had a field day speculating that internal rifts in the PLD have increased between the pragmatists and those that adhere to the guidelines set by party founder, Juan Bosch. The rifts date back to the choosing of former Secretary of the Presidency, Danilo Medina as presidential candidate by the pragmatists, regardless that …

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Engineer Antonio Martinez placed a formal complaint in the judiciary against young engineer Felix Bautista, former director of the Oficina Coordinadora y Fiscalizadora de Obras del Estado, the government department that supervises public works. Engineer Martínez says that Bautista authorized hefty advance payments not corresponding with the projects dimensions to friends for works he knew …

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Codetel announced it will be investing more than RD$2,000 million in the next four years to modernize its national telecommunications network. Investments this year will be RD$350 million to replace telephone centrals, and improve optic fiber installations. The Codetel optic fiber network is 1,000 kilometers long throughout the national territory. The Codetel investment will fund …

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Despite an elbow injury, Dominican weightlifter Wanda Rijo managed to finish eighth in the world in the Olympic Games. Wanda Rijo was a gold medal winner in the Pan American Games (Winnipeg, Canada) and the Central American and Caribbean Games (Maracaibo, Venezuela). Dominican swimmer Guillermo Cabrera, first Dominican ever to participate in a Pan Am …

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The Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Asociación Nacional de Distribuidores de Gasolina (Anadegas) have not reached an agreement regarding the profit margins granted to the gasoline and diesel distributors by the government. As per the last fuel increase on 26 August, the profit margins of the distributors (gas stations) were reduced from 12.5% …

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