2001 – Page 212

El Listin Diario reports that 31-year old Faustina Mauricio Mercedes (Angelita o Ana Maria Mercedes), the native of Sabana de la Mar who saved her shipwrecked 16 fellow boat trip passengers, has become an international celebrity. Mercedes breastfed her fellow companions for 12 days at sea, saving them from dehydration. The group didn’t make it …

Read more…

President Hipolito Mejia suspended his activities yesterday afternoon to visit ear, nose and throat specialist Eduardo Mejía at the Centro de Otorinolaringología yesterday. He suspended his participation in the formal opening of the casino at the Santana Beach Resort, and at a meeting with La Vega authorities regarding the construction of the Manabao Dam in …

Read more…

The Mejia administration announced that government pay days as of February will be the 10th and 25th of each month. Originally, President Mejia had announced the government would pay on the 15 and 30. Prior to the change, the government had paid once a month, on the 25th. The Banco de Reservas, the government bank …

Read more…

President Hipólito Mejía recently firmly announced his government opposes farm produce imports. The bans have affected industries that use sugar as raw material, and consumers are paying higher prices for sugar and other farm items due primarily to speculation caused by the produce scarcity. But Minister of Agriculture Eligio Jaquez justified one known import of …

Read more…

The Dominican government signed an agreement with a US group, Mapet International Foundation for the construction of four advanced medical centers. A US$520 million investment will be made in the centers that should be operational in 18 to 24 months, as reported by Hoy newspaper. The new centers are: 1) General Trauma, Emergency Medicine and …

Read more…

Former President Leonel Fernandez will appear tomorrow at 10 am at the Juzgado de Instrucción de Primera Instancia del Distrito Nacional as a witness in the case for corruption regarding his government’s welfare program, Programa Eventual Minimo de Empleo (PEME). The judiciary has incarcerated the program’s former director, Luis Ynchausti, and former administrative secretaries of …

Read more…

A medical mission from the Life Enhancement Association for People Foundation of Dallas, Texas visited again for surgery this time at the San Isidro Air Force Base hospital. This marked LEAP’s 11th year of service to the people of the Dominican Republic. As part of a joint effort between the government, Corazones Unidos (a Dominican …

Read more…

The World Bank announced the disbursement of over US$622,000 in December 2000 for the purchase of vaccines in the DR. This is part of a US$3 million five year plan announced in February 2000. The Ministry of Health and the Health Sector Reform Commission manage the project. The funds will be used to purchase 120,000 …

Read more…

Only one woman and two men were rescued of a group of 56 persons that left Saturday at dawn from an area near Miches to Puerto Rico. The Navy rescued the three near Sabana de la Mar on the East Coast. Thirty-year old Maria Teresa de los Santos told reporters from her hospital bed in …

Read more…

The National Association of Pilots, Air Santo Domingo, the Air Century, Aeronaves Dominicanas, Caribair and Servicios Aereos Profesionales urge the government to rescind the Proyecto MSA/DOM/97/801 signed between the Civil Aviation Board and the ICAO, an aviation organization associated with the United Nations. The project was signed supposedly to resolve problems that caused the US …

Read more…