2001 – Page 141

Onesimo Gonzalez, director of the Santo Domingo Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) said that the government will soon start building a six-lane 23.6 kilometer express highway that will bypass Santo Domingo to the north. The highway, to be built by a private company with the state contributing the land, would start near the Dominican Petroleum Refinery …

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President Hipolito Mejia visited the low income neighborhoods of Los Praditos, Cristo Rey, Simon Bolivar, Guaricanos and Villa Mella to participate in the low cost food program. During the visit, construction materials for home repairs was distributed and he posed for photographers as he pegged a nail and board to a house in Villa Mella. …

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El Siglo newspaper reports that government collections increased RD$559 million in March over February, but that collections for the first trimester were below what was planned. Tax collections for the first trimester totalled RD$14,231.5 million, or RD$1,123.2 million less than estimated, according to the National Budget Office (ONAPRES). This amount includes a RD$800 million loan …

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Minister of Agriculture Eligio Jaquez has formally launched the Programa para el Mejoramiento de la Ganaderia Lechera, a program to improve dairy production. Lidio Martinez Cairo and Israeli consultant Shimon Ofir direct the RD$44 million program. It will benefit 400 cattle farms in Bani, Bonao, San Francisco de Macoris, Monte Plata, San Juan de la …

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Premium Gasoline RD$43.08 Regular Gasoline RD$37.38 Premium Diesel RD$24.88 Regular Diesel RD$22.42 Avtur RD$19.56

Looks like it was too good to be true. The announced Junta Central Electoral ruling that voters would be able to choose their aldermen and their mayors as well as deputies regardless of the party they represent looks like it will not happen in 2002. A sector within the ruling PRD objected to the plan. …

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Cuban President Fidel Castro says there will be combat if any judge abroad seeks to place him under arrest. His comment is part of a letter delivered to the Listin Diario in response to comments made by Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon in an interview. Judge Garzon went down in history for ordering the arrest of …

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The Hamilton-Beattie poll results published today in Hoy newspaper show that 59% of Dominicans of all income levels and from all regions do not agree with the direction in which the Mejia administration is leading the nation. Only 16% of those polled feel the Mejia government is proceeding correctly. These figures contrast with the same …

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Five bodies have been recovered while another is believed to still be under the debris of a shopping mall and movie theatre that was going up in Santiago city. The building was at Avenida Salvador Estrella Sadhala and Juan Pablo Duarte. The toppling of the building brings to the forefront the government’s inability to enforce …

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