2001 – Page 37

Listin Diario points out that while the foreign debt of the DR has been declining, due payments have been increasing. This is attributed to the short term borrowing in the previous government period of 1996-2000. At year’s end of 1996, at the start of the Fernandez administration, the foreign debt was US$3.8 billion. At the …

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The organizers of Dominican Week in the United States will travel to the City Hall of New York to present their sympathies for the tragedy in human lives and materials goods suffered following the 11 September terrorist attack, announced Luis Heredia Bonetti, leading promoter of the event. From New York, the organizers will continue to …

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The Dominican Federation of Merchants (FDC) disputes the rationality of taxing income that the government knows business will not receive. Ivan de Jesus García, president of the organization, says that there is a major distortion in the tax law where it establishes that businesses have to pay the 12% ITBIS tax on the full amount …

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TV producer Mariasela Alvarez, a former Miss World, confirmed to the Listin Diario that she is almost eight weeks pregnant. The TV producer who is in her 40s said she and husband Alberto del Pino, formerly of Allegro Resorts, are looking forward to the unexpected new member of the family. This will be Mariasela’s fourth …

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The National Council of the Magistracy chose the three missing judges for the Supreme Court of Justice from a preselection of 25 candidates apparently made in a luncheon on the previous day, Thursday, 12 September. The televised session held at the National Palace on Friday lasted less than four hours. Dario Fernandez Espinal (expert in …

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Pedro Eusebio Romero Confesor. 71 years old. Doctor in law from the University of Santo Domingo (1958). Specialist in real estate, civil, business law. Notary public for 35 years. He was legal advisor to then President Balaguer from 1990 to 1995, and previously legal advisor to the State Corporation of Enterprises (Corde) from 1986-1990. He …

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On Wednesday, the Chamber of Deputies had passed loans for US$30 million that had already been cleared by the Senate. On Thursday, the Chamber of Deputies passed another four loans for US$64 million, bringing the two-day total to US$94 million. Deputy Julio Cesar Valentin (PLD-Santiago) said that an investigation by the Department for the Prevention …

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Minister of Public Health Jose Rodrigue Soldevila announced the start in October of the use of the pentavalent vaccine for infants. The inoculation seeks to prevent five diseases in infants younger than a year. Diseases covered are diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, hepatitis B (Hib), and pertussis and meningitis. Three dosis are necessary. Ministry announced around …

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