2001 – Page 128

Teachers and students rejected a call by the Dominican Teachers Association not to go to school yesterday. It ended up being a relatively normal workday at most public schools in Santo Domingo. With only two weeks of classes left on the official school calendar, public school teachers and their students preferred not to heed the …

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The Dominican Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, Federico Cuello Camilo, says the DR needs to decide within the next two years what to do with its free zone industry. In an interview with El Caribe newspaper, he said that under our commitments to the WTO, the nation has two options: eliminate the special tax …

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Luis Bonilla, in charge of the banana policy department at the Ministry of Agriculture, forecasts the DR will export 100,000 metric tons of bananas this year. This would be equivalent to the record exports of the 1994 boom year.  He told El Caribe newspaper that the DR benefited from the reordering in the world banana …

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President Hipolito Mejia has transferred the responsibility to oversee the management of the propane gas subsidy to his Social Cabinet. Previously, it was managed by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. Victor Manzanillo was appointed manager of the program. The subsidy is granted on the sale of 25, 50 and 100 gallons of gas purchased …

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President Hipolito Mejia announced the government will invest RD$830 million to build three aqueducts in the provinces of Espaillat, Daurte and Salcedo. He made the announcement at the government council held in the city of Moca, Espaillat. He also announced that several schools, highways and rural roads in the area would soon be completed at …

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The government has made payments of RD$150 million on its debt to private generators. One generator, EGE Haina, recently complained that the generators were being discriminated against in favor of the distributors whenever the government makes payments. Following that announcement, the generators shut off several plants, increasing the hours of blackouts. EGE Haina was paid …

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The removal of Mayor General Pedro de Jesus Candelier as chief of the Police tops the wish list of Capotillo barrio in Santo Domingo. The slum has been described as no-man’s land, a hide out for delinquents and the city’s principal center for the sale of drugs. It made headlines after reportedly Police agents killed …

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The relatives of two of the three victims shot to death by Police in Capotillo demanded justice for the victims. When the investigating commission visited the barrio to offer to pay for funeral costs, grant relatives of the dead a pension and to lobby for new homes for the victims, the community reaction surprised members …

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