2001 – Page 167

Former President of the Dominican Olympic Committee, engineer Wiche Garcia Saleta suggests to the Dominican Olympic Committee that the country give up the seat of the Pan American Games and instead host the Central American and Caribbean Games. This he says would resolve two problems. El Salvador, affected by earthquakes, will not be able to …

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President Hipolito Mejia met with President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan and participated in the official welcoming ceremony in northern China. President Mejia is on a five-day official visit to Taiwan. As part of the protocol, the statesmen exchanged decorations. President Chen Shui-bian awarded President Mejia the Order of the Bright Star, Grand Cord, for his …

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Senator for Santo Domingo Jose Antonio Najri said that power has become the big headache of the Dominican people. He complained that the two largest power distributors, Edenorte and Edesur justified the increase in their rates because of the hike in world oil prices. But these prices have been dropping, and still there have been …

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President Hipolito Mejia, interviewed in Taiwan, told journalists that power distributors need to resolve by themselves their difficulties in collecting for power delivered to customers. "I am not going to carry that burden," ("Yo no me voy a echar ese muerto encima"), said President Mejia. A spokesman for Edeeste (an affiliate of AES), Manuel Lopez …

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TV’s investigative journalist par excellence, Nuria Piera, disclosed a big business deal carried out by Samuel Dario Núñez Guzmán and businessman Edmon Elias Barnichta Geara. The scandal revolves around the purchasing from the state of a 3,382 meter lot for RD$5 per meter (RD$16,940) and its resale days later for more than RD$1,000 per meter …

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The Dominican Center for the Promotion of Exports (Cedopex) reports that traditional exports were down 5% in 2000. Traditional exports include raw and refined sugar and the sugar by-products like molasses and furfural. Others are coffee, cocoa and tobacco. All together, these generated US$137.9 million in 2000, down from US$144.9 million in 1999. Exports of …

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Ambassador Om Prakash Gupta of India says India would like to assist the Dominican Republic in several areas. These include small business development, banking, diplomacy, rural development, informatics, farming diversification and journalism. In an interview in El Siglo newspaper, the Indian ambassador said the offer was presented to the Dominican government through the Ministry of …

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Fundacion Global Democracia y Desarrollo, presided over by former President Leonel Fernandez, is sponsoring a Wednesday-Thursday conference called "Bush Policies towards Latin America and the Caribbean" at the Hotel Coral Hamaca in Boca Chica. Speakers will be Peter Hakim, president of Inter-American Dialogue; Lowell Fleischer, of the Center of Strategic and International Studies, Washington; Ambler …

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