2003 – Page 63

With the understanding that no news is good news? DR1 Daily News will not be updated the first week of January, on occasion of the New Year and Epiphany Day holidays. The update on Wednesday, 7 January (Tuesday, 6 January is also a holiday) will summarize news for the first week of January. Those eager …

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Vice-Admiral Radhames Lora Salcedo, whose National Emergency Commission authorized approximately 1,500 points of sale for fireworks nationwide, blames parents for the high number of accidents related to the explosives over the Christmas holidays. Fireworks are being sold on every main street, as well as in supermarkets, colmados and several street corners of affluent sectors of …

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Of the 830 inmates freed by the government on occasion of the Christmas holidays, one case that stands apart is that of PRSC political leader Stalin Lebron, who in January 2003 was handed a 10-year jail sentence for the murder of his fellow PRSC politico Vinicio Zaldivar during a heated discussion at a PRSC convention …

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The Saturday, 27 December edition of the Diario Libre reported that the Postal Service, the Social Security Institute, the Public Health Ministry and the Education Ministry have not received their salaries for two months. According to the report, these government employees have not received their checks for November or December. According to Pastora Mendes, the …

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On Saturday, the Diario Libre newspaper reported that United States beef would continue to enter the Dominican Republic, in spite of the mad cow problem recently detected in the Pacific Northwest. The Dominican Republic, Bolivia and El Salvador were, at that time, the only countries that had not suspended imports of United States beef. On …

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El Caribe’s headline on 26 December read: “The Executive Branch continues its festival of borrowing abroad,” while announcing the new loan contracts the government sent to Congress for approval. Now the government wants to borrow US$131.7 million to build the Pinalito Dam in La Vega. These funds would be borrowed from the Banco Nacional de …

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Former judge Juan Miguel Castillo Pantaleon told Hoy newspaper that he doubts the case of Baninter will ever be fully discussed in court. Technical Secretary to the Presidency Carlos Despradel recently said on the radio that the Dominican Republic is not ready for the trial because it would shock the Dominican people. Castillo Pantaleon, in …

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