2000 – Page 97

The Central Electoral Board (JCE), the body in charge of organizing municipal, congressional and presidential elections in the DR, called for a halt to further plans to politically divide the country. Political interests within Congress have favored the breaking up of provinces into municipalities and other territorial divisions and the creation of new provinces. Promoters …

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Reducing the digital divide is one of the major satisfactions of President Leonel Fernández in government. President Fernandez visited the Ministry of Education yesterday to receive an overview on the education sector and achievements in the DR during his administration. President Fernandez himself spearheaded a program to provide computer access to low income students throughout …

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The Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña bestowed an Honoris Causa Doctorate upon President Leonel Fernandez yesterday. University doctor Mariano Defilló said that the distinction to the President was for his contributions and support to the technological advance of education, the promotion of culture and advancement of national values. The School of Humanities and Education of …

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The Dominican Republic received the largest share of quota allotments contemplated in the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA), as reported by David Lewis in the Manchester Trade’s CBTPA 2000 Update of August 1, 2000. The CBTPA provides unlimited duty-free access for Caribbean Basin Initiative apparel produced from US fabric. It also contains a special …

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Customs Director Miguel Cocco said that the new authorities should go before the World Trade Organization and negotiate an increase in the milk and chicken import quotas in order to meet the demand of consumers in the DR. He denied that the Customs Department is applying the 84% WTO milk surcharge, since the pre-set quota …

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Historian Frank Moya Pons, appointed Minister of Environment in the new government that starts 16 August, said he will spearhead plans to plant 100 million fruit and forest trees in the next four years. He spoke during the first anniversary of the Asociación Nacional de Profesionales Forestales. At the event, Paino Abreu said that the …

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Retired General Joaquin Antonio Pou Castro said that he accepted the task of putting together a crew to "beat-up" the editor of Ahora newsweekly magazine Orlando Martinez in 1975, and that the order came from General Jose Isidoro Martinez Gonzalez (then chief of the secret service), who died November 1999. He refused to implicate any …

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