2001 – Page 137

The Pan American Sport Limited company located in the San Pedro free zone suffered major content losses on Sunday. There were no injuries. The fire started at 10 am and was put out by noon by firemen from Santo Domingo, La Romana and Hato Mayor who came to assist the San Pedro de Macoris fire …

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The builders of the Palacio del Cine were authorized to tear down the multi-storey movie house they were building in Santiago. It collapsed killing six people last Saturday 28 April. The remnants of the building endangered people passing by the construction site in central Santiago. The judiciary has detained builders Horacio Alvarez, Hugo Castillo and …

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President Hipolito Mejia sent to the Senate agreements signed with US corporation Mapet International Foundation for the construction and equipping of four hospitals at a cost of US$500 million. The government would provide the land on which the hospitals would be built and would grant full tax free status for all imports needed for the …

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El Caribe newspaper reports that April results are good for the government. According to the Direccion General de Impuestos Internos, the government tax department, April revenues were 17% more than budgeted. April tax collections were RD$3,095.11 million, up from the RD$2,265.17 million of April 2000.  The highest increase in taxes comes from the ITBIS collections …

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According to a Hamilton-Beattie poll commissioned by Hoy newspaper, 55 of every 100 Dominicans have a negative perception of the Mejia cabinet. Last November, the same poll showed that 30 of 100 Dominicans had a negative view of Mejia?s cabinet.

The drop in the international price of coffee below the US$60 per quintal level could force 60,000 Dominican coffee growers to go bankrupt. Miguel Melo, president of the coffee committee of the Dominican Agribusiness Board (JAD), said the low coffee prices could bring major social problems to the countryside.