2001 – Page 129

Supreme Court of Justice president, Jorge Subero, says that no judge can order the press out of a courtroom. Judge Adrilya Vales Dalmasi of the Camara Civil y Comercial de la Cuarta Circunscripcion del Distrito Nacional ordered Luis Guzman, a journalist for El Siglo, to leave the court alleging that he distorted the case when …

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With only 15 days to go before the scheduled end of classes in public schools, the directors of the National District section of the public school teachers union ordered the closing of schools for the rest of the week. Danilo Caminero, president of the National District division, justified the measure saying the union is tired …

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Hatuey de Camps, president of the ruling PRD party, criticized the government practice of appointing individuals to two or three government posts, many times indifferent institutions. El Siglo reports that he criticized ministers and government departments for causing irritation among unfavored party members. He said he would order firings if the practice continued. 

Padre Jose Luis Aleman writes in El Caribe today about what the poor want most. The priest, who is economic advisor to the government and head of the economics department at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, said that the poor reject the government’s proposal to provide families with children in school RD$300 a …

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Economist Frederic Emam Zade advocates the free circulation of multiple currencies and not the dollarization of the Dominican economy, which he estimates would cost RD$2,000 million. He felt this would be improductive and would not generate new resources. Emam Zade says the US economy is not necessarily in tune with the economic needs of other …

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The Interamerican Development Bank wants to find a way to channel some of the billions of dollars sent home by Latin American and Caribbean immigrants into productive investments. Remittances are estimated to be greater than foreign aid and greater than interest paid on the Latin American foreign debt.  Experts from the private and public sector, …

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El Caribe newspaper reports that despite the slow down of the United States economy, money transfers have not declined. Rather, they are up 10% on average over the past four months, according to Freddy Ortiz, president of the Association of Remittance Companies. Ortiz estimates Dominicans living abroad send back about US$1,500 million a year. “Dominicans …

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The Superintendent of Insurance has announced the completion of the merger between Grupo Asegurador America and La Universal de Seguros, the insurance unit of the Popular financial group. The Universal thus becomes the largest insurance company to operate in the Dominican market. 

El Caribe newspaper tells the story of Benjamin Pe?a, an apparently gifted child who learned to read at four. Little Benjamin’s intelligence has not been tested. He is 11 years old now and in 7th grade because the school would not admit him before he was 6. Pe?a studies at the Centro Educativo Castellalito in …

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President Hipolito Mejia is scheduled to fly to Belize, Honduras and El Salvador for day trips to each country from 23-25 May. Media coverage of the trip could be scant because of the difficulties of following the President who will be traveling by private jet. In Belize he will be the guest of the head …

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