2004 – Page 148

Juan Lopez de Uralde, the executive director of Greenpeace Spain, has addressed Leire Pajin Iraola, the head of the Ministry of International Cooperation in Spain, to express his concern for the Spanish Embassy?s support to Spanish businesspeople that seek to build hotels in currently protected park areas. Lopez says that the short-term economic interests of …

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Luciano Gonzalez and Suzanne Mai are the leading contenders for the Dominican Republic in the World Kiteboard Cup, opening today in Cabarete, Puerto Plata. Gonzalez was born and raised in Cabarete and Suzanne Mai, while born in Germany, also spent her formative years in the beach town. Both are high-ranked in the PKRA Professional Kiteboard …

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Julian Nebreda, the president of AES Dominicana, told Hoy newspaper that the short-term solution to the extensive blackouts currently affecting the DR is for the Mejia administration to pay up its debts. President Hipolito Mejia said on Wednesday in San Cristobal, however, that his government does not owe the generation or power distribution companies ?a …

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Electricity engineer Luis Arthur wrote in Hoy newspaper on Thursday, 10 June to suggest that the government not relinquish control of the EdeSur and Edenorte power distribution companies and instead grant concessions for the collection offices in the neighborhoods, as a form of franchise. Arthur said these offices should be owned and run by people …

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As of 1 July, tolls paid at the Las Americas, Duarte and San Cristobal points will be charging vehicles RD$21 each way, up from RD$15. The Mejia administration had increased the toll from where it stood at RD$5 during the Fernandez administration in 2000. The Banco de Reservas had requested the funds to pay governmental …

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The Diario Libre is reporting that the IMF team currently reviewing the DR?s Stand By Agreement, which was signed last August 2003 and has been suspended twice so far, will arrive in the country in July to examine conditions anew. According to the paper, this visit could determine whether the agreement will continue or not. …

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The Listin Diario, the government-intervened paper, reports that the PRD government will hand the PLD party representatives their proposals for the required tax reform stipulated in the IMF StandBy Agreement. For the past few weeks, President Mejia has said he would not do anything with the tax proposals, since the new, incoming government would have …

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According to El Caribe newspaper, the members of Congress have been very busy of late ? selling off apartments and lands to friends and families, that is. Thirty-six sale contracts for government-owned land and sales agreements for 33 apartments were sent to President Mejia for his signature. When Congress convened on 1 June, sales of …

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President Hipolito Mejia and President-elect Leonel Fernandez are scheduled to meet on 22 June to discuss matters related to the governmental transition and other crucial matters such as the electricity crisis and the pending tax reform, announced Monsignor Agripino Nunez. Nunez Collado said that the former prime minister of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez, would be present …

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President-elect Leonel Fernandez will travel to Puerto Rico, Brazil, Chile and the United States, according to reports. To kick off this trip, Fernandez will stop first in Puerto Rico to participate in an activity at the Universidad del Turabo on Monday, 14 June. Later in the day, he continues on to Sao Paolo, Brazil to …

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