2001 – Page 60

The Dominican team that placed fourth in the III World Sub 21 Basketball Championship in Japan returned yesterday. The players called for more support from the Basketball Federation and the government. The Dominican team was reinforced by Dominican basketball players from New York City colleges and high schools, such as Jack Michael Martinez, Amaury Filion, …

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President Hipolito Mejia starts a seven-day tour of South America tomorrow. He will visit Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. Last month he was in Peru. The President will participate in the Group of Rio Summit scheduled for Santiago, Chile. On his agenda is the signing of several cooperation agreements. The National Palace said he will depart …

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President Mejia has received the final conclusions on constitutional reform from Monsignor Agripino Nuñez Collado, coordinator of the Constitutional Reform Commission. Upon receiving the report, the President said he would lobby for a consensus among the three majority political parties and Congress. Congress is the government body in charge of reforming the Constitution. But its …

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Minister of Labor Milton Ray Guevara said unemployment continues at 13.9%, the same as last year. He confirmed there have been 10,951 jobs “suspended”. But he said that suspensions are not cancellations. A company has three months time to restore the worker to his job or make severance payments.

The President prefers that exporters of so-called traditional exports no longer have to exchange their dollars with the Central Bank. Only traditional exports have this requirement. Traditional exports include sugar, coffee, cacao and tobacco. The President also wants the government to give coffee exporters a RD$300 million incentive per quintal exported. President Mejia spoke at …

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Domingo Abreu, environmental editor for Hoy newspaper, says that many of the private homes and businesses going up in the Felix Servio Ducoudray National Monument Park, better known as the Dunes of Bani, have been authorized by the Bani municipality and the Navy commander in the area. The Ministry of Environment has ordered an evaluation …

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The Mejia administration’s promotion department is distributing nationwide a 48-page magazine on the first year achievements of the government. 100,000 copies of the magazine have been printed.

Minister of Finance Fernando Alvarez Bogaert says the government will readjust the National Budget to accommodate the unexpected decline in tax revenues. He said the economic team erred when it forecast a decline in fuel prices to US$22-$23 and did not foresee the effects of the slowdown of the US economy. The government’s economic team …

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