2004 – Page 129

President-elect Leonel Fernandez met with Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in the Palacio de la Moncloa in Madrid yesterday. According to a release from the PLD press office, the Spanish leader expressed his support for Dominican Republic infrastructure works and education, health and culture programs. President-elect Fernandez is currently on a tour of Europe …

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President Hipolito Mejia announced he would send Congress the tax reform bill received from the economic team of the PLD. Daniel Toribio, Juan Hernandez and Rafael Camilo of the PLD have basically taken the tax reform proposal that resulted from studies contracted by the Mejia administration to economic consultants. The primary change to this is …

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Building on proposals made by consultants contracted by the Mejia government, a team of PLD economists ? Daniel Toribio, Juan Hernandez and Rafael Camilo ? have prepared a 31-article tax reform bill. As reported in Hoy newspaper today, their reform package would increase the ITBIS (VAT) tax from 12% to 16% for most items already …

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The former PRD senator for Santo Domingo, businessman Jose Antonio Najri says that the tax reform to be presented to Congress will become a major obstacle to development and would cause major market distortions. He said the implementation of the measures contained in the fiscal reform package would prompt depositors to convert their money to …

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The president of the National Council of Business, Elena Viyella de Paliza, says that judicial action against corruption is lagging and is a matter of concern and cause for discouragement in Dominican society. As reported in Hoy newspaper, Viyella commented on statements by visiting Under Secretary for International Affairs of the US Treasurry John Taylor …

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The Executive Commission of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) rejected the resignation of Rafael Bello Andino from the presidency of that organization. During a meeting held yesterday to review Bello Andino?s actions, 17 of the 31 members present voted not to accept his resignation. Bello Andino left the door open to remain at his …

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Over the years, the granting of visas for travel from Haiti to the DR has been fraught with corruption, with cases of PRD La Vega Deputy Radhames Ramos Garcia (charged for trafficking Chinese nationals across the DR?s border with Haiti) even being studied in the Supreme Court. Likewise, members of the military have taken advantage …

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The police arrested a ?jevito,? a 24-year-old man who had the misfortune of crashing into a police patrol car that was on surveillance duty on John F. Kennedy Avenue. Youths are known to take to the avenue, as well as the streets of Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln, for dangerous high-speed races after midnight. These …

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The US Major League Baseball?s All-Star Game is tonight, starting at 8:30pm and featuring a selection of the league?s best players. Of these athletic elite, five Dominicans will appear in the opening line-ups of the two teams. Dominicans Vladimir Guerrero, Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez are scheduled to bat third, fourth and fifth for the …

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In what Major League Baseball called ?the most historic of all Century 21 Home Run Derby contests,? three of the four active players who?ve surpassed the 500-homerun mark participated. The winner of the showdown was the DR?s Miguel Tejada, who plays for the Baltimore Orioles and who hit 15 homers in the second round alone …

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