2001 – Page 120

The Ministry of Environment has announced it will take advantage of World Environment Day, 5 June, to start a campaign to reduce noise levels in Santo Domingo. Rene Ledesma, a deputy minister, told Diario Libre newspaper that the Ministry will start to implement new noise regulations that went into effect with the passing of the …

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The Police aired a video on TV that shows a minor identifying members of the Frente Amplio de Lucha Popular as having participated in the Navarette disturbances. Broadcasting the video violates the law that protects minors. Reportedly, the boy is 14 years old.

Today, El Siglo newspaper published that the Metropolitan Transit Authority is now in charge of directing traffic in Santo Domingo. The decree gave AMET the responsibility of directing traffic, previously shared with the Police. Amet directs traffic in Santo Domingo, Santiago, and San Francisco de Macoris. The head of AMET, Oneximo Gonzalez, says one of …

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In El Salvador last week, President Mejia spoke up in favor of bolstering trade between the Dominican Republic and the rest of the Caribbean and Central America. He favors measures to increase trade and multi-destination travel.

Centennial Dominicana, a newcomer to the telecommunications market in the DR, is urging Tricom to remember their old slogan, “your right to choose” and stop applying barriers to interconnection. Centennial has taken public its complaints that Tricom wants to impose unfair market conditions before allowing interconnection. Tricom says they are only applying what is established …

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Minister of Public Works Miguel Vargas Maldonado has said it will be too costly. But the light train’s promoters, Rafael Calderon, Technical Secretary of the Presidency and Oneximo Gonzalez of the Metropolitan Transport Authority feel it is necessary to resolve the traffic chaos in Santo Domingo. The train reportedly would run from Km. 9 of …

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Hoy newspaper points out all the errors that resulted from City Hall’s effort to place new signs on Dominican streets. The Saturday, 26 May, article points out that way too many errors crept into the new street signs. Apparently no one at the city government supervised the labeling. The street sign program cost the government …

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