2000 – Page 87

Senate President Ramon Alburquerque said that the Congress will pass the free trade agreements signed by the Fernandez administration with Caribbean and Central American countries as soon as the tariff reform bill is passed. Pending for the passing of this is a decision on how much the increase of the value-added tax will be. The …

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Guido Gómez Mazara, the legal consultant of the Executive Branch, announced that forthcoming is the creation of an office that would revise all the contracts signed by the Fernandez administration. The Oficina Revisora de Contratos would be under the Consultoría Jurídica del Poder Ejecutivo, the office head by Gómez Mazara.

President Hipólito Mejía announced that he will soon create the Ministry of Foreign Trade (Secretaría de Comercio Exterior). Osmar Benítez, executive vice president of the Dominican Agribusiness Council (Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana) has been said to be the first minister of the new department. Meanwhile, President Mejía announced the appointment of Rolando Galván as the new …

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Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil: Aníbal Amparo García Díaz Defensa Civil: Radhamés Lora Salcedo Centro Dominicano de Promoción de Exportaciones: Rolando Galvan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources– Frank Moya Pons Comisión Permanente para la Modernización y Reforma de las Fuerzas Armadas y la Policía Nacional: Hugo Rafael González Borrel Jefe de las Fuerzas Aereas: …

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Speaking shortly after taking office as Secretary of Finance, Fernando Alvarez Bogaert, announced that the country?s public debt exceeds DR$8 billion (around US$49 million), roughly twice as much as the Fernandez administration had previously disclosed. Bogaert explained that the larger sum includes the unpaid public debt which ?represents a deficit like any other.? Since November …

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With the ink not yet dry on the dismissal papers of hundreds of Fernandez administration employees, the aspirants for their vacant positions were thronging the corridors of every government office Thursday. Job seekers began forming lines in the National Palace before 8:00, which by midday had become throngs. Similar scenes were repeated at most of …

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The new Secretary of Agriculture, Eligio Jaquez, announced that the government will invest DR$2.1 billion (around US$ 130 million) in the production of agricultural products of first necessity and tobacco before year?s end. The purpose of the investment, he said, is to guarantee sufficient food supplies for the population. The sum represents an increment of …

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The government of Hipolito Mejia will spend DR$50 million (around US$3.1 million) on projects to improve commerce agriculture and quality of life along the Haitian border. The Director of Frontier Development, Leonidas Ignacio Caraballo Caba, told El Siglo that the funds would be directed toward reforestation of river basins, planting of new forests, irrigation systems …

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The pace of high-level appointments continued during the first day of the Mejia administration with the designation of the thirty provincial governors. Unlike the mayoral positions (sindicos) who are elected in off-year voting, governors are appointed by, and serve in representation of, the President. The new designees are; Azua: Bolivar Pi?a Bahoruco: Frank Acosta Barahona: …

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Just 24 hours after leaving office, former president Leonel Fernandez made a call on two other former presidents. At 11:00 a.m. the 46-year old former chief executive arrived at the Santo Domingo home of Joaquin Balaguer to express his ?friendship, greetings and gratitude for the support he gave me in second round of voting in …

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