2003 – Page 275

The Civil Aviation Board has paid its fees to the Federal Aviation Agency of the US and re-calibrated the instrument landing systems at the major airports of the country. According to the Diario Libre, the manager of the Department of Civil Aeronautical Regulations, Gender Castro, said that the government paid a pending debt of US$248,178 …

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The Direcci?n General de Impuestos Internos (DGII), the nation?s tax department, announced an 11.76% increase in its revenues for February 2003. The DGII had an inflow last month of RD$2.9 billion, compared to RD$2.6 billion in February 2002. Of that amount, income tax revenues rose by 15%, and the ITBIS was up 12%.

Several weeks ago, the Fenatrado trucking union dramatically increased its haulage rates for cargo coming into the country through the Port of Haina. The different business and industrial associations, however, were unwilling to absorb these hefty price hikes. Fenatrado has since tried to establish a bargaining table, but a new round of threatening comments makes …

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The National Police have announced they have recovered the military equipment that was stolen from vehicles in the parking lot of the Hotel Hispaniola last week. In the heist that targeted several vehicles belonging to politicians, Senator Julio C?sar Matias of Mao lost two Uzi machine guns assigned to his personnel. The police did not …

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Nuria Piera, one of the most popular investigative reporters on Dominican TV, has done it again. Last Saturday, she reported that the National Council for the Handicapped (CONADI) could not develop programs to help the handicapped because all of its budget money went to pay salaries. The council was formed in 2000 through a political …

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While all details are not yet clear, a story carried in yesterday?s List?n Diario and continued in today?s edition tells of an American sailor who obtained a poorly worded travel permit to cruise Dominican waters and ended up in jail for 12 days without his boat or its equipment. In what must have been an …

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The Miami Herald takes a look at the pros and cons of the Santo Domingo Pan American Games. Titled ?Pan Am Games are expansive, expensive?, the feature in the Sunday edition focuses on the investment in construction, the ambivalence among Dominicans and whether the track record of Dominicans as excellent hosts will again prevail.  http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/5461764.htm

Beware: The Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) agents are handing out more tickets these days. One city resident who was stopped for a defective front light complained that the officers were picking on the better cars. Apparently turning a blind eye to the thousands of battered taxi cars in circulation and motorcyclists without helmets, the AMET …

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Press reports say that no one in the city government of Santo Domingo has been able to provide any information on who are the people behind the concession to operate proposed parking meters on Santo Domingo city streets. Reportedly, a contract with Parqueos Dominicanos, S.A. establishes a pittance for the city governments while the private …

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The Santo Domingo government of Mayor Robert Salcedo announced over the weekend that it has rescinded the garbage collection contract with Colimec. He also said that Proaseo, another garbage collection company inherited from the past administration, had violated their contract, as it was collecting only 700 to 800 tons of refuse daily of the 1,700 …

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