2001 – Page 198

The Director of the Dominican Agrarian Institute, Tomas Hernandez Alberto, together with Ambassador of Japan, Masato Akasawa, conducted an emotional ceremony during which 26 Japanese immigrants, were given titles to parcels in La Luisa in the Province of Monte Plata. They had been promised the parcels when they came in 1959. The Japanese immigrants were …

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This morning’s El Siglo writes that all is not well between the nation’s municipal governments and the national government. According to Fausto Ruiz, President of the Dominican Federation of Mayors, the government has retained RD$56 million that was to have been distributed to municipalities, according to instructions of President Hipolito Mejia. This past Thursday, a …

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The rank and file of the Dominican Liberation Party, who voted on the Party’s Central Committee membership, has excluded Temistocles Montas, former Technical Secretary during the Fernandez administration. With 40% of the votes counted, a preliminary result of voting by the Party’s approximately 30,000 members is already in. In this past Sunday’s first round of …

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Two of the most successful theater productions are back on stage at the National Theater: "Wish-ky Sour" and "Salome U: Cartas a una Ausencia." The works were written by Scherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso and are directed by Jorge Pineda and Henry Mercedes. Their run is between February 13th and 18th. Carlota Carretero and Karina Noble have …

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The winners of the Dominican show business’s night of stars, the Casandra Awards were announced last night. Cervecería Nacional Dominicana, the Presidente beer brewery, sponsors the awards. Members of the Dominican Association of Show Business Chroniclers (Acroarte) chose the winners of the annual awards. Mayor of Santo Domingo Johnny Ventura won the evening’s top award, …

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This morning’s Hoy newspaper states that the National Insurance Association’s figures indicate that 100,000 vehicular accidents were recorded last year and that 20% involve trucks, principally 18-wheelers. The high rate of traffic accidents attributable to heavy vehicles on the nation’s roads and highways is alarming. In Santo Domingo alone, in the year 2000, heavy vehicles …

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Carlos Despradel, ex-Governor of the Central Bank and current member of the Monetary Board, said yesterday on a TV program that the country’s reserves currently exceed US$800 million. The reserves had been reduced in 2000 because the government then in power chose to absorb the costs of the increment in world petroleum prices and not …

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This morning’s Hoy newspaper writes that almost all those who attended the Peña Gomez Seminar, presided over by Vice President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, rose to their feet when she asked how many of the assembled PRD Party leaders were unemployed. In the aftermath, the Vice President, who is also the Ministry of Education, was compelled …

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The Cassandra Prize Ceremony, in which the country’s most prestigious art and culture awards will be presented, will be telecast tonight at 7:00 p.m. on Channel 13. The annual event is organized by Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana, which makes Presidente Beer, in cooperation with the Art Chroniclers’ Association. This year’s show, which will be hosted by …

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The Confederacion Patronal Dominicana, an association of business owners, said that the tax situation has become so confusing that businesses have to create special new departments to manage them. In an interview in Hoy, the organization’s president, Fabio Herrera Roa stated that businesses have to visit the different tax offices five times a month to …

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