2004 – Page 106

Local broadcasters will televise the Olympic Games in two stretches of three hours per day. The Telemiciro Channel 5 and Digital 15 telecast will be transmitted from 1pm to 4 pm, and again from 8pm to 11 pm. The focus will be on Dominican athletes, with particular attention given to 400-meter hurdler, Felix ?Super? Sanchez …

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French playwright Francis Veber?s ?Le Diner de Cons? opens today at the National Theater?s main hall. The comedy, directed by Enrique Chao, brings together several of the best Dominican actors and comedians Edili, Irving Alberti, Manolo Ozuna, Luis Jose German, Tony Sanz and Christian Guthermann. It is an adaptation of the French story about a …

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The Theodore Chasseriau exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art closes on 20 August. The exhibition is defined as the most important international cultural event of year 2004. Exhibition of 30 drawings and 30 engravings lent by the Louvre Museum and National Museum of Paris. Chasseriau was born in 1819 in El Limon, Samana, but …

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President Hipolito Mejia was on hand for the initiation of the works to recover the Guajimia gully by building pluvial drainage systems through several slum neighborhoods in the province of Santo Domingo. The government of Canada is backing this project, which is expected to benefit 150,000 residents of the area. The endeavor is to be …

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President Hipolito Mejia decorated Dominican Ambassador to Canada with the Merit of Duarte, Sanchez y Mella in the Grade of Grand Silver Cross. This honor was bestowed for the professional efforts of Ambassador Eduardo Fernandez, a former governor of the Central Bank, in promoting and strengthening trade and cooperative ties between Canada and the DR. …

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The recently uncovered ?little payroll? at the Justice Department has prompted the Foundation for Justice and Institutionalism (FINJUS) to request a full-scale investigation into the parallel payroll of the Attorney General?s office. FINJUS spokesperson Jose Alfredo Risek called the revelation ?shameful? and he condemned all those involved as ?this does not contribute to transparency and …

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The Dominican Republic has experienced the highest inflation rate in the past 23 years with a half-year total of 31.89% as of 31 July. In 1988, a rate of 29.19% was registered, making it the second highest inflationary rate recorded before this year. El Caribe reports that in 1990 a higher yearly inflation was registered, …

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Economist Pedro Silverio takes a look in El Caribe today at the first signs that the incoming Fernandez administration is serious about getting the economy under control. He points out that the authorities must find an efficient coordination between the objectives of the monetary, financial and exchange policies and the goals of the fiscal policy. …

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Franco Uccelli of Bear Stearns explains that tighter monetary controls and increased dollar inflows have been contributing to the reduced foreign exchange rate and consumer price stability in the DR. He explains in his 11 August release that a higher-than-expected current account surplus during the first half of the year, in addition to a small …

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The tax reform proposals that were sent to the Chamber of Deputies by President Mejia failed to win approval in this first attempt and were returned to the Finance Commission for further study. As the first item on a 94-point agenda, the tax package never got off the ground because legislator Marino Collante, the chairman …

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