2001News

National Foreign Trade Council (Conacex)

President Hipolito Mejia swore in the new board of the Consejo Nacional de Comercio Exterior (Conacex) at the Hotel Embajador yesterday. The new government body was created by decree this week. The department will make recommendations on foreign policy, export promotion, free zones, foreign investment policy, trade negotiations, market-ordering policy, and evaluate the government programs …
2001News

First female general

President Hipólito Mejía promoted Colonel Antonia Liriano Paulino, a dentist, to the rank of General. In the same decree, the President only promoted one other police officer to general, Ramon Augusto Rafael Navarro. On the same day, the statesman gave raises to another 6,597 police men and women. Liriano joined the police force in 1982. …
2001News

Government changes affects spending

El Siglo reports on the concern of the business sector on recent government actions. The presidents of two leading business organizations, Ignacio Mendez (Federacion de Asociaciones Industriales) and Antonio Espin (Asociacion de Empresas Industriales de Herrera) coincided in their comments to the newspaper that in the past four months, since talks on increasing taxes started, …