2004 – Page 124

One of the rare, honest public servants, lawyer Jorge Martinez Lavandier, died yesterday at the age of 82. The man who was on three occasions appointed the director of Customs and once the director of Income Tax (during Balaguer administrations) ended his days in abject poverty. Martinez Lavandier is survived by his wife Musseta Nicolas …

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The government of Germany signed a technical cooperative agreement to provide support in environment, reproductive health and developmental programs. Ambassador Countess Eva Alexandra Kendeffy was the signatory for Germany and Foreign Relations Minister Frank Guerrero Prats for the Dominican Republic. The programs call for EUR 5.62 million in non-reimbursable assistance. The programs, which were requested …

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The intention was to provide the country with the most modern penal code, but legal experts say those who revised the code went to far. They warn that what may result instead is judicial chaos when processing criminal cases in the Dominican Republic. Santo Domingo?s Court of Appeals judge, Enrique de Marchena, Human Rights Commissioner …

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Former District Attorney Francisco Dominguez Brito said during a panel held to discuss legal matters yesterday at the Gran Hotel Lina that the past four years have been a setback for judicial matters. He attributed the increase in delinquency to the scandalous pardoning of 4,000 sentenced convicts being held in Dominican jails. He said that …

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Police reported that 23-year-old engineer Edwin Canaan died of a knife wound as he resisted a kidnapping attempt by three of his employees and one Colombian national. The police arrested three men, including the Colombian, on the charge of murder. The men in custody are Hendry Manuel Reyes Corporan, 18, Juan Luis Wallace Sanchez, 18, …

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The president of the Federation of Judo, Jaime Casanova, announced he was resigning from his post following the last Friday decision of the Dominican Olympic Committee (COD) to suspend him from his post as treasurer on that committee. Casanova said he had no comments on the COD decision that authorized judo athlete Jose Vicbart Geraldino …

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Upon his return to Dominican territory, President-elect Leonel Fernandez told reporters that he felt that the tax proposals had to increase the government income, but without hurting the poor. At the same time, the soon-to-be President told reporters he was looking forward to drawing up a tax reform package through a working dialogue with all …

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The tax reform package currently under study in the Chamber of Deputies contains a sort of amnesty provision for those that repatriate capital and bring their tax returns up to date. As reported today in the Diario Libre, Article 25 of the proposed new code allows those bringing back capital during the first year of …

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One of the three economists who worked on the tax reform for the incoming Leonel Fernandez government, Rafael Camilo, gave an interview in Saturday?s Listin Diario, in which he expressed his surprise at the widespread opposition to the fiscal package submitted to Congress by President Hipolito Mejia. Camilo and his colleagues Juan Hernandez, a former …

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Economist Miguel Ceara Hatton sums up the outcome of the DR taking on US$1.1 billion in sovereign bonds as ?financial folly? in an article from Sunday?s Hoy newspaper. He reminds that the economic circumstances at the time the bonds were taken out were adverse to such a decision and says the misuse of these funds …

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