2001 – Page 209

The Municipality of Santo Domingo ordered that the market that had operated at the western end of the Mirador del Sur-Cayetano Germosen parks/Avenida Luperon be relocated provisionally to in front of the Municipality in the Centro de los Heroes government offices building complex. The move was made after requests from the Ministry of Public Works …

Read more…

The representative of the Pan Am Health Organization said that organization will help prepare of an evaluation of the preparedness for natural disasters of the larger hospitals of the country, if its cooperation is needed. Socorro Gross said, in an interview for the Listin Diario, that the organization can provide technical cooperation to carry out …

Read more…

Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez alerted the country on the deficiencies of the educational system and urged an evaluation of the professors especially in the public system. The Cardinal alerted that if the country does not have centers that can form the men and men of the future for the nation’s well being, it …

Read more…

El Caribe newspaper today criticizes the decision of the Mejia administration to increase the nation’s foreign debt to purchase 7,000 vehicles for public transport. These include 600 new buses for OMSA service. The newspaper says that the decision is contradictory, especially since the Mejia administration has been critical to similar moves by the past Fernandez …

Read more…

The Central Bank announces an exchange rate of RD$16.66 for this week. But while commercial banks were buying at that rate, the spread between the purchase price and the sales price of dollars has been widening. Commercial banks were selling dollars last week for upwards of RD$17.56. Hoy newspaper reports that the Central Bank is …

Read more…

The Board of Ministers of Economy, Industry and Commerce of Central America and the Caribbean, meeting in Santo Domingo over the long weekend, committed to carry out joint efforts to increase trade and investment in the region. They also highlighted the benefits for the area of the signing of the free trade agreements between the …

Read more…

The Alianza Dominicana contra la Corrupción, a civic society group, requested that President Hipolito Mejia dismantle its Department for the Prevention of Corruption as latest events detract from the credibility of its work. Recently, the director of the Department of Investigations, Police Captain and lawyer Frener Bello Arias resigned. The resignations of Ramon Evans, in …

Read more…

The crash into Loma del Toro in the Septentrional mountain chain of a Aerocommander 500, registration HI 535SP has revealed much more than rescuers had initially expected. In a press conference, Civil Aviation director Anibal Amparo García explained the many irregularities they found. The CAB suspects behind the flight was an organized group that routed …

Read more…

El Caribe reports that Deutsche Telekom is interested in investing in the DR. The coming of Deutsche Telekom would add to the competition that has benefited consumers in the DR. Other leading players are Codetel, Tricom, Orange (France Telecom) and Centennial (Centennial Corporation). El Caribe reports that the German telecommunication giant has been holding conversations …

Read more…