2001 – Page 140

The Santiago District Attorney office and the National Department of Investigations (DNI) are in charge of an investigation into the collapse of a movie house under construction in Santiago. Seven people died inside the building after 10 pm on Saturday, 28 April. Construction engineer Horacio Salvador Alvarez said yesterday in a press conference that De …

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A study carried out in 50 public schools in Santo Domingo in January showed that 160 girls aged 9-13 were pregnant, some of them in the sixth grade. The study, Riesgos en Adolescentes (Risks of Adolescents) was ordered by the Ministry of Education. Most of the girls that get pregnant abandon their studies. 

El Siglo newspaper reveals that the City Government of Santo Domingo spent only RD$4.6 million of its RD$36.9 million public charity budget on actually helping destitute people (mostly the handicapped and elderly). Eighty-eight percent of the budget goes to pay monthly wages of staff affiliated with the PRD or to those who are doing the …

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President Mejia said on Monday that it is not true that public works have stopped due to budgetary constraints. But the Listin Diario newspaper reaffirms today that construction is not advancing on several major public works. The paper reports that the 56-km. Autovia del Este, the central library of the state university (UASD) and the …

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According to results of the Hamilton-Beattie poll carried out for Hoy newspaper, 50% of Dominicans feel the government is mismanaging its funds, 32% feel government management of funds is good, 9% say it is excellent and 9% said they do not know.  The same study showed that 81% of Dominicans feel that taxes are necessary …

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The Mejia administration dropped 21 points in popularity from the February Rumbo Magazine-Gallup poll to the present poll. In February, 71% of Dominicans believed that the next three years of government would be good or so-so. Two months later, expectations for good government have dropped to 50%.  Those who think it will be a bad …

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The Gallup poll, published in Rumbo Magazine this week, says the President’s personal image remains good among Dominicans, despite the generally negative perception about his management of the economy. 55% of the population feel Mejia is either a democratic or somewhat democratic statesman. Those who feel he is “very arbitrary or somewhat arbitrary” make up …

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The coordinator of First Instance courts of the National district, Judge Enrique Marchena, has thrown out the case against former President Leonel Fernandez and several cabinet members who were accused of fraud in the privatization of the Dominican Electricity Corporation. The Judge did so on grounds that the group of citizens that presented the case …

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President Hipolito Mejia refuted claims that public investment is declining. He guaranteed that works under construction will not stop and that new major projects are about to start. He also lashed out against newspaper editors who publish reports about declining public investment, calling them rascals ("sinverguenzas"). He denied that public investment has dropped RD$1,000 million …

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