2000 – Page 80

One million, two hundred lbs. of poultry that was frozen in warehouses on behalf of the Instituto Nacional de Estabilización de Precios, a government organization whose role has been constantly changing. The imported chickens spent eight months stored in the cold room of Frisi Dominicana that charged Inespre RD$0.30 per lb. The chickens were valued …

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Dominican musician-composer Michael Camilo will share the stage with Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Cachao Lopez, David Sanchez, Celia Cruz, Arturo Sandoval and Dave Valentín that will honor the late Tito Puente during the Grammy Latino Awards ceremony slated for 13 September. The Awards will be transmitted by CBS.

President Hipolito Mejia is scheduled to speak at the Millennium Summit in the United Nations in New York City on the afternoon of 6 September. "We are going to discuss neoliberalism, the need to feed our populations, the problem of our neighboring country, the Latin American crisis, the little attention received from some organizations, the …

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The Government Council established a public sector austerity plan that freezes the government payroll and establishes a reduction of 10% on salaries of government officers, including those with positions in autonomous and decentralized institutions. Earlier, President Hipólito Mejía had announced a 40% cut in salaries, starting with his own, but apparently this did not appeal …

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President Hipólito Mejía placed under the newly created Ministry of Environment all equipment and personnel of the Plan Nacional Quisqueya Verde. The Quisqueya Verde program was a very successful reforestation effort directed by former Vice President Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal. The program converted rural inhabitants that had been destroying forests into planters of trees by …

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National Weather Department (Oficina Nacional de Metereología): Engineer Jose Maria Duquela National Zoo: Alfonso Ferreiras National Professional Baseball Commissioner: Jose Daniel Calzada

President Hipólito Mejía appointed engineer Jose Daniel del Rosario Valdez as the new executive director of the Oficina de Promoción de Inversión Extranjera. He will have the rank of ambassador. In Decree 532-00, he also created a support committee for the office, to be known as Comité Consultivo y de Apoyo Institucional al Organismo. Members …

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The president of the National Council of Private Business, Celso Marranzini criticized that the government was buying social peace by permitting the duty free import of vehicles and granting generous subsidies to unionized cargo and passenger transporters. The government on Monday announced generous benefits to unionized cargo and taxi and minibus union members. Marranzini said, …

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The ruling Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) expelled six mayors that have not complied with the 2×2 political agreement made in 1998. The party says that several deputies are also on the verge of being expelled. The agreement was reached in 1998 to maintain party unity when a large number of aspirants sought municipal and congressional …

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Participación Ciudadana, a civil society group, urged the government to put a stop to the numerous cancellations of government employees being made. Francisco Alvarez, spokesman for the organization said that the cancellations will contribute to public services becoming inefficient. He said that the mass firing is a loss to the state that have invested taxpayers …

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