2001 – Page 75

2001 News

World weight lifting president praises organization of Games

The president of the International Weight Lifting Federation, Tamas Ajan, congratulated the 2003 Pan American Games Organizing Committee for its advances and he forecast the Santo Domingo Games would be the best so far. “A week ago, I was in Athens where the Olympic Games will be held in 2004 and I can assure you …

IOC President to visit

President of the Organizing Committee of the Pan American Games, neurosurgeon Jose Joaquin Puello, has announced that the recently-elected president of the International Olympic Committtee, Jacques Rogge of Belgium, will visit the DR on 15 August. Rogge is a surgeon, former Olympic competitor in yachting, and until recently was president of the European Olympic Committee. …

2001 News

New deadline for the government to pay its power bills

AES is giving the government until Monday, 30 July, to pay its power bills. The government owes RD$100 million for power consumption for three months, according to Diario Libre. AES hopes to collect at least 50% of this bill. Diario Libre says the Electricity Superintendency and the Dominican Electricity Corporation support the power distributor in …

2001 News

Plan to cut government power consumption

Minister of Industry & Commerce Hugo Guiliani Cury proposes to cut US$140 million from the government’s petroleum bill. The ambitious National Plan for Energy Savings seeks to reduce power bills and fuel consumption by government departments by 20%. As part of the plan, energy efficient bulbs will be installed and a nationwide energy savings awareness …

2001 News

World Bank economist warns bill creates power oligopoly

The chief economist of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean, Guillermo Perry, warns that the electricity framework recently passed by Congress creates a power oligopoly that will harm consumers. The bill, as modified by the Chamber of Deputies, allows distributors to become major power production players, contrary to the spirit of competition …

2001 News

President Mejia to travel to Peru

President Hipolito Mejia will travel on Friday to Lima, Peru for the inauguration of President Alejandro Toledo. The President will leave on a private plane from the San Isidro Air Base and is scheduled to return on Sunday. During his stay in Peru, the President and his committee will visit the tourist sites of Puentes …

2001 News

383,000 people legally own guns

The Minister of Interior and Police Rafael Subervi Bonilla said the government has issued 383,000 legal permits for guns in the past 15 years. He said there is no way to determine how many illegal weapons are in the hands of civilians.

2001 News

Santiago bank robbery

Unknown robbers stole two million pesos from the safe at the Banco Popular branch at Avenida 27 de Febrero (Barrio Pueblo Nuevo) in Santiago. The thieves opened a hole in one of the side walls of the bank in the early morning hours of Tuesday.

2001 News

Senate takes on more debt for the country

The Senate passed ten more loan contracts yesterday, despite warnings from Senate President Ramon Alburquerque. He says that at the rate loans are being approved, the country could soon have to dedicate 40% of the National Budget to pay the foreign debt, up from 20% at present. US$131.5 million will finance the construction of four …

2001 News

El Caribe newspaper asks “idiotic” question

El Caribe editorial today says that the present government is guilty of setting off a time bomb with a short wick given its debt spree with Spanish private banks for US$443 million in barely 10 months in office. The lenders are primarily private banks, but El Caribe says the Spanish government is behind the deals …

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2001 – Page 75

World weight lifting president praises organization of Games

IOC President to visit

New deadline for the government to pay its power bills

Plan to cut government power consumption

World Bank economist warns bill creates power oligopoly

President Mejia to travel to Peru

383,000 people legally own guns

Santiago bank robbery

Senate takes on more debt for the country

El Caribe newspaper asks “idiotic” question