2000 – Page 72

The commission created by the Mejía administration to oversee the impasse regarding garbage collection in the DR determined that the Central Government pass onto the Municipality of Santo Domingo the garbage collection contract. News reports indicate that the government will transfer to the municipality the RD$10 million monthly payment, so that the city government can …

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A news/commentary article in the Listín Diario points out that congressional bottlenecks seem to be part of Dominican political history, regardless of which party is in power. The newspaper highlights that bribery continues to be viewed by the population as the grease that gets projects moving or gets them shelved. Recently, Senator Darío Gómez complained …

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A fire destroyed offices, furniture and important archives at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo yesterday. The fire occurred at noon at the third floor offices of the Vicerrectoría of the university. University authorities ordered an in depth investigation into the causes of the fire.

Seeking to increase his gas station sales, the owner of Servicios Turbí reduced the prices of gasoline and diesel sold at his three gas stations in Santo Domingo, Santiago and La Romana. He dropped prices/per gallon RD$1 on premium and regular gasoline and RD$0.50 on diesel sales. His gas stations in Los Alcarrizos (Santo Domingo), …

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Antonio Espín, president of the Asociación de Empresas Industriales de Herrera, criticized that the Customs is now demanding import documents be in Spanish. He says the measure is absurd and harmful to Dominican commerce. The measure is in effect since 1 September 2000, and indicates that merchandise coming with documentation in English will not clear …

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Carmen Heredia de Guerrero, the new head of the National Theater, says that the ruling that establishes that those arriving late to Theater performances will have to wait for intermission to enter the halls will be again enforced. The ruling applies to the three halls of the theater. This means, shows will again start on …

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Emilio Cesar Rivas Rodríguez, the director of the Instituto Postal Dominicano, the state-run post office, told Hoy newspaper that in about two months time they will begin to implement the program to assign postal codes to cities in the DR. He said the program will start with the Colonial City of Santo Domingo. The codes …

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El Siglo reports the Junta Central Electoral, the government body in charge of organizing presidential, municipal and congressional elections in the DR, has sent the ruling that would allow expatriates to vote abroad to political parties for their study. The JCE hopes the new ruling will be in place in time for the 2004 presidential …

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