2001 – Page 207

When she married, Nuria Piera, the nation’s premier television investigative journalist, refused to invite the press, preferring a very private ceremony. Today, El Siglo confirms what has also been kept very quiet. Nuria and her husband journalist Pablo McKinney will divorce after only a year, two months and 18 days of marriage. They have a …

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The Dominican government has secured a US$100 million loan with the Interamerican Development Bank for the so-called "paquetazo social," or social programs intended to buffer the effects of the price increases caused by the launching of a major tax increases program at the start of January, as reported in the Listin Diario. Reportedly, the loan …

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Fiscal operations of the government in the last four months of 2000 show a surplus of RD$166.7 million, or RD$17,773.1 in income compared to RD$17,606.4 million disbursements. The National Budget Office provided the information.

The Listin Diario reports that the Director of Migration Trajano Moreta Cuevas had alerted national security authorities of the trafficking with illegal travelers through the Herrera Airport. Passengers were illegally leaving the country on board flights from the Santo Domingo airport to Caribbean islands. Moreta said that the authorities knew of the situation prior to …

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The Ministry of Foreign Relations reported the government will open and staff permanent embassies in Oslo (Norway), Stockholm (Sweden), Kingston, (Jamaica) and Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago). Likewise, the Ministry reports the start of formal relations with Macedonia, Ukraine and Andorra. The Ministry also announced that it is moving on the opening of embassies …

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The Universidad Dominicana Organizacion y Metodos bestowed an honorary doctorate to President Hipolito Mejia. The award ceremony was part of the regular graduation of the Santo Domingo university. The President received the honorary degree from Dr. Jose Rafael Abinador, rector of the Universidad O&M. Dr. Abinader is also senator for the ruling party for Santiago …

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President Hipolito Mejia ordered the fulfillment of the government order dating back to June 1997 that instructs all government departments, be they autonomous or central, to deposit state funds in the government commercial bank, Banco de Reservas. President Mejia ordered by way of official letter 2415 that the Controller General of the Republic supervise the …

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The Ministry of Foreign Relations has instructed a new commission to study the installation of the missing small piles that have marked the frontier between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. With the years, most of these have disappeared. Commission members are Jose B. Gautier, Wenceslao Guerrero Pou, William Perez Piantini, Salvador Bienvenido Brower, Ignacio Caraballo, …

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The government announced an investment of RD$75 million to improve ports in Azua, Barahona and Pedernales in the Southwest; San Pedro de Macoris in the Southeast; Boca Chica and Haina Oriental in the South; and Sabana de la Mar in the East. Anibal Garcia Duverge, executive director of the Dominican Port Authority, made the announcement. …

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El Caribe newspaper points out that not all the members of the Monetary Board were in agreement with the Central Bank decision to inject US$30 million into the money markets to contain the devaluation of the peso. Several members of the board favored letting the peso float to reach its own level. The peso was …

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