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President Mejia meets Alejandro Toledo on vacation here

President Hipolito Mejia spent most of his Easter holiday from Thursday through Sunday at the Juan Dolio presidential vacation home along the southeast coast. On Thursday, he took time to visit friends and businessmen in Casa de Campo, La Romana, about an hour away. There he met with Peruvian presidential candidate, Alejandro Toledo. Toledo is …
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Tax collections fall sharply below expectations

Hoy newspaper reports that tax collections have fallen significantly below the government’s expectations. The government budgeted RD$65,177 million for this year, but analysts say that if the present pace of collections continues, they will fall short by RD$10,000 million. Hoy newspaper reveals that the government economists plan to meet the fiscal deficit by borrowing abroad. …
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No new controls announced, government prefers to pick on past corruption

Amidst denunciations made by the press of widespread corruption in Bienes Nacionales, the government department in charge of state property, the Mejia administration announced it would be stepping up investigations into corruption in the past administration. Cases of corruption in the Ministry of Public Works, Department of Civic Aeronautics and Dominican Social Security Institute and …
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Environment Department says it has nothing to do with MAPET Foundation

Minister of Environment Frank Moya Pons says he does not know anything regarding the Mapet Foundation, which signed a US$40 million agreement for the planting of trees with the Ministry of Agriculture in December 2000. El Caribe newspaper says that when the Environment Ministry refused to sign the reforestation contract, the Minister of Agriculture, Eligio …
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AES distributor does not agree with Union Fenosa distributor

Anibal Mejia, executive vice president of Edeste (AES), said that that company maintains excellent relations with the Dominican Electricity Corporation. CDE. He said the company has always found 150% support in Cesar Sanchez, the administrator, his economic advisor Edwin Cores and in George Reynoso, who is in charge of the electricity market. He did not …
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Senate investigates irregularities in electricity privatization

Senate technicians investigating alleged irregularities in the privatization of the Dominican Electricity Corporation had been contracted by Union Fenosa for an appraisal and were also the "comisario de cuentas", the appointed company officer on the board of Union Fenosa operations in the DR. (unclear) The Senate claimed that the auditing firm of Ortega y Asociados …