2004 – Page 142

The Listin Diario carries the headline that the principles of the tax reform agreed upon will not affect those least able to pay. Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, rector of the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra, explained that the meeting between President Mejia and President-elect Fernandez was at the behest of the ?multilateral organizations? in …

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A Diario Libre headline today reads ?Discrepancies with IMF on fiscal business.? Journalist Raimundo Diaz reports that the ideas being tossed around nowadays are different from what the new authorities would want. Apparently the projected income stated in the agreement between the outgoing and incoming authorities is far below the goals of the tax reform. …

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Doctor Antonio Musa, of the Regional Hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, has been forced to suspend elective surgeries and outpatient treatments during the night because of the continuous blackouts and problems related to the facility?s emergency generator. As reported by journalist Miguel Antonio Natera for El Caribe, Dr Thelma Molina, the provincial president of …

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In what must appear to many readers as a black comedy, the Diario Libre and other papers are reporting that the Chamber of Accounts now wants to audit Senator Tonty Rutinel, who recently publicly accused the Chamber of being riddled with corruption, nepotism and the buddy system. As Rutinel announced the arrival next week of …

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Economist Andy Dauhajre Jr?s tax proposals got a cold reception from most of the business community and the incoming authorities. According to Edwin Ruiz and Nicanor Leyba, reporters for El Caribe, the economist?s proposals were met with little enthusiasm from the PLD. Finance Minister Rafael Calderon told the paper that the submission of these ideas …

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Arelis Pena Brito reports in El Caribe that fast food chains such Pala Pizza, Wendy?s and others have been experiencing hard times recently because of delays in receiving their raw materials. Of course, the failure of basic services such as the current crisis in the electric sector and the devaluation of the peso also work …

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Sugar industry members advised that in a not-too-distant future they will have to cap their output, as their excess product lacks a viable market. As reported in Hoy newspaper, various industry organizations expressed their opinions regarding the terms of the US Free Trade Accord that takes effect in 2005. The signatories of the letter, which …

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President Hipolito Mejia and President-elect Leonel Fernandez signed an agreement yesterday afternoon in which they promise to continue talking to each other and searching for solutions to the current crisis. The conversations between the two political leaders took place within the context of the National Dialogue that is coordinated by Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado, the …

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The former president of the Spanish Government, Felipe Gonzalez, addressed the joint houses of the Dominican Congress yesterday and called for a social pact that would help the country free itself from the current crisis. Gonzalez said that, with a national consensus, this agreement would assist growth recovery, would not entail major sacrifices and would …

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The Mejia administration has begun negotiations with electricity generators Cogentrix, Smith & Enron and Monte Rio, to establish a debt repayment schedule that will allow them to return to service. The object, as reported in Hoy newspaper, is to reduce the severe power deficit being felt across the nation, made worse yesterday with the suspended …

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