2004 – Page 121

Foreign legations are pressuring the government to act in the stagnated legal action against bank fraud. In an interview with Hoy newspaper yesterday, Elena Brineman, the director of the USAID in Santo Domingo, said that the DR needs to pursue the legal cases against those accused of such crimes in order to access international assistance. …

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The Senate passed a bill yesterday that prohibits nepotism in government. This type of preferential treatment has been denounced countless times and is viewed to have deep roots in several Mejia administration government departments, including the post of Secretary to the Presidency, held by Mejia?s brother-in-law. With three weeks to go until the end of …

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A study carried out by the National Energy Commission determined that the parallel power system has the capacity to produce 1,500 megawatts of energy ? almost as much as that produced by the formal power system. The financial collapse of the national electricity system has obliged companies and residences alike to operate alternate power systems, …

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Engineer Federico ?Quique? Antun has assumed the presidency of the PRSC following the resignation of Rafael Bello Andino. Antun was the first vice-president of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) which governed the country for 22 years during the period 1966-1996, but which received less than 9% of the vote in the May 2004 election. …

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The Barahona Ecological Society (Soeba) stated that high-ranking Army officers are responsible for chopping down precious-wood trees for sale. Engineer Pedro Olivero Garcia told El Caribe that on Saturday 10 July he observed an Army truck with plate number E00518 carrying logs of mahogany en route from Barahona to Santo Domingo. Olivero Garcia said that …

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Flavio Dario Espinal, the dean of the PUCMM Law School and former Dominican ambassador to the OAS in Washington, DC comments on what he believes may be three pieces of good news for the wellbeing of neighboring Haiti. The first is the implementation of the United Nations Security Council resolution that launched the UN Stabilization …

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Jose Vicbart Geraldino, who recently got the Dominican Olympic Committee to overrule a ban imposed on him by Judo Federation president Jaime Casanova, reports that James Macleod, the program manager of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic solidarity program, will visit to discuss the case of Vicbart and Casanova, as reported in Hoy newspaper. The solidarity …

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The Dominican Republic does not have enough electricity to carry out the most mundane activities. The front-page photograph of the Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies deliberating the recently submitted tax reform package in semi-darkness speaks louder than the biggest headlines. El Caribe says there is barely 600MW of power being supplied to the …

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With the electric system is at an all-time low, Superintendent of Electricity George Reinoso told reporters: ?We don?t know who is going to put the bell on the cat.? In other words, who is going to fix the situation? Meanwhile, the superintendent?s office is demanding that the shareholders of Itabo (AES, El Paso Energy, and …

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In a seemingly never-ending string of unfortunate events, the Social Security (IDSS) hospital Presidente Estrella Urena had to stop all service because of a total lack of electricity. The president of the Santiago Medical Group and the head of the local chapter of the Social Security Nurses? Association added that there was not even any …

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