2004 – Page 117

The Dominican Academy of Sciences has taken on the Sectoral Protected Areas Law and plans to submit the disputed legislation to the Supreme Court. The academy argues that the legislation is full of technical and legal errors, as well as violations of international agreements and conventions. The scientists say the internal contradictions and other mistakes …

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Larrisa del Mar (Larimar) Fiallo, the current Miss Dominican Republic, was savagely attacked yesterday evening at one of the major malls in Santo Domingo. Newspaper accounts of the incident differ, but the young beauty is currently said to be recovering from the assault at a private clinic in the Gascue section of Santo Domingo and …

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Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Subero Isa told reporters that international collaboration should not be hinged on who the international community sees as the guilty parties. This was Subero Isa?s response to various statements from ambassadors and foreign ministers who declared that the severest punishments should be meted out to those who committed the bank …

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PLD Deputy Minou Tavarez Mirabal said yesterday that President Hipolito Mejia tunes in and out in his role as President of the Republic. ?President Mejia is President to inaugurate works, but not to fulfill commitments such as, for example, those signed with the IMF,? she said, as reported in El Caribe. She commented that the …

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke before the Dominican Congress yesterday and urged that all nations, great and small, join forces to fight terrorism, dictatorships, drugs and the illegal traffic of people and arms. In his speech ?National and Regional Security Threats in a Global Setting,? Barak said the United States had made a …

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The giant beer, banking and tobacco conglomerate, E Leon Jimenes, now known as the ?Grupo Leon,? made its statement to the finance commission of the Chamber of Deputies yesterday. This was the official ?coming out? of the statements that were placed in all the nation?s newspapers last week. Basically, the proposals call for a 20% …

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After a three-hour meeting with Dominican Council of Bishops, President-elect Leonel Fernandez told the press that the ?progressive deterioration? of the economy, society and social services is ?highly alarming.? He tempered his statement, however, by saying he felt the incoming administration could free the nation from the current crisis by dint of hard work and …

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Electricity production is now as it was in the 80s, according to Hoy newspaper?s Fior Gil. Only 619.68MW of power was available for the entire country yesterday, with the departure of the Itabo II unit from the national grid for reasons cited as technical. The 900MW deficit has forced businesses and industries to modify their …

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During the current PRD government, the authorities that govern the routes for urban transport lines, both for cars and buses, issued 125 permits to allow the beneficiaries a monopoly on passenger service along the route. In turn, these permit-holders have charged drivers and owners as much as RD$1 million to run their vehicles on their …

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A full 77% of all inmates in Dominican jails are not even close to getting an executive pardon. The massive amounts of pardons, which have surpassed standard proportions over the past two years, have created a controversy and prompted charges of corruption. The cases of Stalin Lebron, the ?Queen of Ecstasy? and the scandal in …

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