2003 – Page 257

One of the most decorated assistant district attorneys in the history of Santo Domingo, was relieved of her job yesterday by presidential decree. Roxanna Reyes Acosta had served the district attorney?s office since 1996, where she worked for children?s rights and was in charge of the Department of Complaints and Conciliation. Her pet projects, such …

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Olimpia Gonz?lez, the indicted former head of the Dominican Teacher?s Union (ADP), has been appointed Vice Consul in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as reported in Hoy newspaper. Currently a RD$26,000-a-month ?advisor? at the Ministry of Education, Gonz?lez is under indictment for a RD$15-million fraud that took place during her administration of the ADP funds. The …

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According to the economic section of El Caribe, the new hike in the exchange rate is due to the fact that the Central Bank has increased its advances and rediscount chapter to record levels, and that this has neutralized the efforts of the demonetization of hundreds of millions of pesos. The Central Bank demonetized RD$800 …

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Due to a fall in demand over the past two months, chicken farmers have been forced to lower prices for broilers from RD$9.10 to RD$7.85 per pound. Authorities say that there are as many as 500,000 excess units for the marketplace. At Freeze-it Dominicana, a local cold-storage facility, there are over one million broilers in …

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The story of a missing child is usually headline material, but when it occurs in a very poor barrio or ?batey? it often lacks public attention. Not so in the case of Enerolisa, a four-year-old girl taken from her home by a Haitian woman named Marisol 14 days ago. The story was carried in some …

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A spokesman for the Proyecto Presidencial Hip?lito (PPH), the faction within the ruling PRD party that took Hip?lito Mej?a to the presidency, announced that the group has decided to register the pre-candidacy of the President in the yet-to-be-scheduled PRD primaries. Customs Department director Vicente S?nchez Baret made the announcement to the press following the meeting …

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The List?n Diario headlines the high interest rates in the banks and says that the rates, which vary from 42-55%, are disturbing the flow of business and industry. Leaders of the business sector are lobbying for action that will lower the rates. According to the article written by Candida Acosta, the high interest rates are …

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Hoy newspaper is reporting on its front page that the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic has paid out RD$18 billion to depositors of the now-defunct Banco Intercontinental (Baninter). According to Hoy, this is in addition to the RD$10 billion that the bank received from the Central Bank between September of 2002 and the beginning …

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The much-needed rains have caused problems for some sectors of the country. Especially affected are the towns around Nagua in the northeast, those around Santiago in the north-central and those in northwestern provinces, where many houses were flooded and sometimes carried away, along with all its possessions, by the torrential rains. In Nagua, thousands of …

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All of today?s newspapers are playing up the fact that the death toll over the long holiday weekend was 51% less than last year, and that none of the over 500 injuries reported were even very serious. Again, automobile accidents accounted for most of the deaths, but apparently the campaign ?Si bebes, me apeo? (If …

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