2001 – Page 230

President Hipólito Mejía announced a 10% increase in public employee salaries. Celso Marranzini, president of the Consejo Nacional de la Empresa Privada, and Andrés Dauhajre of the Union Nacional de Empresarios also said they would be in favor of an equal salary increase in the private sector. Union leaders oppose the increase, and are demanding …

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Teófilo Tabar, director general of the Tax Bureau (DGII) announced that in 2001 his department is working on ways to make transparent the paying of the value-added ITBIS tax. He announced that store invoices should feature separately the price of the article and the tax on the item. While many stores already do this, in …

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The Mejía administration announced it will now pay employees every 15 days. The next government payday will be 15 January, and subsequently 30 January. This is standard practice in private business. The government had traditionally paid on the 25th of every month. President Mejía said the measure seeks to bring new dynamism to the economy …

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The government is moving ahead with the project to exploit the sulfurs of the Rosario Mining Pueblo Viejo gold mine with a long-term lease to an international mining company. The Pueblo Viejo concession is located in the center of the Dominican Republic and the reserves are considered to be in the "world class" gold mine …

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The 2001 budget will be RD$14.8 thousand million greater than that of 2000. The budget set at RD$65,176.7 million is 29.4% more than last year’s. The budget will use internally generated resources, with only 5.8% of the monies coming from foreign sources. Several main government department budgetary allotments are: Ministry of Finances RD$14,796,012,341 Ministry of …

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President Hipólito Mejía traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico today, Tuesday, 2 January to attend the inaugural of Puerto Rican governor-elect, Sila María Calderón. He said he would take advantage of the visit to meet with businessmen in the areas of communications, trade, banking, construction, mining, insurance, free zone industries, apparel and pharmaceuticals. President Mejía …

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National Police said that in 2000 there were more than 81,127 traffic accidents. Hoy newspaper said that this means there were about 222 accidents per day. Police reports show there were 793 deaths and 46,613 persons injured in traffic accidents. The Police released the good news that the measures taken to reduce accidents over the …

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Premium gasoline RD$38.65 (down from RD$38.75) Regular gasoline RD$34.02 (down from RD$33.80) Premium diesel RD$25.58 (down from RD$25.41 Regular diesel RD$23.50 (down from RD$23.34) GLP RD$19.23 (RD$19.23)

Engineer Rafael Corominas Pepín, one of the nation’s experts on earthquakes, said that many of the high rise towers apartment buildings are going up without fire or earthquake escape exits/ladders. He told the Listín Diario that the priority of cutting costs, and making them impregnable by robbers or assailants have lead these to become mortal …

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Former Secretary of the Armed Forces Juan Rene Beauchamps was murdered in his Abreu, Cabrera, province of Maria Trinidad Sanchez on Tuesday, 26 December. The 70 year old former military died from a gunshot wound fired by a gun held by a man that was barely 50 centimeters away, as per the autopsy report. The …

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