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2001 News

Pedro Martinez comes home

Pedro Martinez, the legendary starting pitcher of the Boston Red Sox, returned to Santo Domingo on a private jet yesterday. He last pitched on 7 September. His doctors recommended he rest his strained arm for the remainder of the baseball season.

2001 News

2002 Budget to be same as 2001

The director of the National Budget, Luis Ernesto Perez Cuevas, said the 2002 budget will be about the same as this year’s. He said increases, if any, may be allotted to Education and Public Health. He spoke of the overestimation of revenues in the 2001 budget, which has resulted in a deficit. When the funds …

2001 News

Importing used appliances

The Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill that will allow the import of used appliances. This has been prohibited since February 2000. The deputies said the restriction negatively affected low income households. The bill will go into effect once signed by the President and published.

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Aeropostal chosen as partner for Dominicana

The Commission for Public Enterprise Reform (CREP)has chosen Aeropostal, otherwise known as Consorcio Dominicano 2001, to privatize Dominicana Airlines. Rafael Montilla Martinez, president of CREP, said that the company bid US$10.2 million for the airline, the minimum set by the CREP. The company was the only one that qualified for the tender. The privatization stipulates …

Air traffic report

El Caribe reports that airline traffic is gradually getting back to normal. Ellis Perez, director of communications for Aerodom, said it is normal for US travellers to be reticent to fly, but he believes the shock will not last long. He said flights to Santo Domingo airport are gradually resuming normalcy. In Puerto Plata, which …

2001 News

Health Department sends medical residents to universities

Jose Rodriguez Soldevila of the Ministry of Health said the government will no longer pay medical residents who are doing their internships at public hospitals. He said doctors who want to participate in state hospital specialization programs will as of next year have to pay tuition to universities for this program. He said the decision …

2001 News

Interruption of construction skyrockets costs

El Siglo points out that building public works in a stop-and-go manner increases their costs. The newspaper reports on a sampling of public works whose costs have increased significantly. These are: Núñez de Caceres drainage tunnel (initial cost RD$42 million) now RD$101 million Manoguayabo Highway (initial cost RD$30 million) now RD$122 million Supreme Court of …

2001 News

Repatriations of Dominicans suspended

El Caribe reports that the US authorities have temporarily delayed the twice-a-month repatriation of Dominicans who served jail sentences in the US. The suspension will be in effect while the danger of war or new terrorist attacks prevails. The Department of Migration said the next arrival of a group of 30 has also been suspended. …

2001 News

Insurance premiums to zoom upwards

El Caribe reports that local insurance premiums will go up 10-30% as a consequence of the attack on the World Trade Center. The attack is believed to be the most expensive disaster in history.

2001 News

Citibank is just another tenant of Acropolis Tower

Juan Guiliani, a spokesman for Citibank, wrote to DR1 Daily News to explain that Citibank’s only relation to the 27-floor-tower going up on Winston Churchill Avenue is as a future tenant of its top floors. The spokesman for the US bank says it does not have any other ties to the building. Guiliani says the …

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2001 – Page 33

Pedro Martinez comes home

2002 Budget to be same as 2001

Importing used appliances

Aeropostal chosen as partner for Dominicana

Air traffic report

Health Department sends medical residents to universities

Interruption of construction skyrockets costs

Repatriations of Dominicans suspended

Insurance premiums to zoom upwards

Citibank is just another tenant of Acropolis Tower