2004 – Page 147

The mayor of the municipality of Santo Domingo North, Daniel Carvajal Lois, announced that he had signed a 20-year agreement with Brazilian company Repsol Enganharia Ltda to privatize the Duquesa garbage dump. The company is represented in the DR by Compania de Limpieza y Rescate Urbano, SA. Engineer Eduardo Schlaeper R Dantes signed on behalf …

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Engineers Jaime Felipe in an interview with Hoy, expresses his concern that Dominicans are not making efforts to find alternate power sources other than costly imported fuel. ?We need to start disconnecting ourselves from the production of power that uses petroleum, and encourage the generation of power using alternate sources such as water, wind, sugar …

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The administrator of the Banco de Reservas, Manuel Lara, announced that the increase in tolls from RD$15 to RD$21 would not go into effect on 1 July as previously reported. He said that he would leave that decision up to the new authorities who will take over on 16 August.

Continuing his peripatetic, pre-inaugural travels, President-elect Leonel Fernandez has met with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva (Lula). The Brazilian leader announced his support of four upcoming ?mega-projects,? a term that was popularized during the first Fernandez administration. These projects, widely discussed a few years ago, comprise a tram system for Santo Domingo, a substantial …

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In a press conference yesterday, the Mejia administration insisted it holds no debts with the electricity companies. The government says that, on the contrary, the private electricity companies owe the government. Finance Minister Rafael Calderon during the press conference yesterday, said the government owed US$100.2 million to the power companies, but that the power companies …

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Finance Minister Rafael Calderon and CDEEE manager Cesar Sanchez during the press conference expressed the government position that under the Electricity Law they could intervene in the generation companies? operations if they do not reconnect to the system. Otherwise, the spokesmen for the Mejia administration?s electric sector have no proposals ready to confront the present …

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The municipal government of Santo Domingo announced that new bills would be going out, as it aims to invoice residents of the capital for garbage collection. The onus of refuse collection in the past has been assumed by the central government. According to El Caribe newspaper, AAA Dominicana has been entrusted with the billing project …

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Responding to an investigative journalism report appearing in Hoy newspaper, the city government of Santo Domingo has removed many shacks and non-permanent illegal constructions erected along the Parque Nacional del Litoral Sur, the coastline avenue bordering the Caribbean Sea, better known as el Malecon. Hoy reports today that Mayor Roberto Salcedo admitted the Malecon had …

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The Central Bank reports that inflation was up 2.63% in May, bringing the accumulated annual inflation (January to May 2004) to 28.53%. Inflation over the past 12 months has registered 65.29%, according to the Consumer Price Index.

Accor held a press conference yesterday to explain its position in the legal dispute between Diogenes Marino Gomez, the president of Dimargo SA, and the Dominican state (Corphotels) regarding the Hostal Nicolas de Ovando located on Calle Las Damas in the Colonial City, now under Accor management. According to Jacques Serpollier, the director general for …

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