2001 – Page 194

President Mejia said he was unaware of the project to build eight sports venues on grounds of the Mirador del Este Park that surrounds the Columbus Lighthouse Monument, on the East Side of Santo Domingo. The Organizing Committee of the 2003 Santo Domingo Pan-American Games has plans to use 25,000 square meters of the 650,000 …

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Meanwhile, Hoy and El Caribe newspapers report that Minister of Environment, Frank Moya Pons does not agree with the use of the park for the construction of sports venues. He said no kind of construction should go up in protected areas. For the construction of sports complexes there is sufficient land elsewhere in Santo Domingo, …

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President Hipolito Mejia authorized the construction of two large refugee centers to house victims of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes and fires. He said that the refugees would serve as temporary lodging in times of emergency. Radhames Lora Salcedo, director of Civil Defense made the announcement. He said that the refugees would go up …

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President Hipolito Mejia responded in a cutting way when asked about the recent comments of the legal advisor Guido Gomez Mazara regarding police repression of a march of physicians. Gomez Mazara described the police repression to a group of medics that would have marched from the Dominican Medical Association to the Congress to protest a …

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During the ceremony of the celebration of the 53rd Anniversary of the Dominican Air Force all were surprised to note that none other than former General Salvador Lluberes Montas was invited to sit with President Hipolito Mejia at the table of honor. Lluberes Montas (Chinino) is implicated in the murder of journalist Orlando Martinez, assassinated …

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Representatives of all involved sectors met yesterday at the National Palace to continue discussions. The talks lasted three hours and at the end were narrowed down to three main points of conflict. The sectors will meet again today. The only opponent to the bill is the Dominican Medical Association whose spokesmen say the bill wants …

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Onesimo Gonzalez is happy about the merge of the National Police transit agents with the organization he directs. He says it is not an improvised move; it had been on the table for four months. Hamlet Hermann, first director of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) urges caution, though. He says there are problems because AMET …

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The former chief of trade negotiations of the nation, Frederic Emam Zade told the Listin Diario newspaper that if the country does not sign the Free Trade Agreement with Central America its international image will be affected as well as its capacity to be taken seriously for future negotiations of this kind. He said Dominicans …

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The Dirección General de Impuestos Internos said that the main focus of the 1.5% advance sales tax are the 500 businesses with income of more than RD$25 million a year that have systematically declared losses. He said that the businesses have found ways to not pay taxes by declaring high expenditures and thus report earnings …

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El Siglo newspaper reports on the increasing number of Haitian women that take "tours" to give birth in the Hospital Regional Jose Maria Cabral y Baez, the leading public hospital in Santiago. The director of the center, Dr. Daniel Espinal says that in 2000, they attended over 1,200 Haitian women that showed up at the …

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