2004 – Page 149

Two days after announcing the relocation of its production plant, Grupo M resumed operations at the industrial park located in Ouanaminthe, Haiti, along the border at Dajabon in the Dominican Republic. The company said it would dismiss 254 workers and close five of its ten modules instead of entirely abandoning production. The company said the …

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An outbreak of mumps and chicken pox is currently making the news in many areas of the Dominican Republic. The epidemic proportions of those infected by these childhood diseases have caused classroom attendance to drop drastically in many places. The illnesses, transmitted by airborne virus, commonly affect several members of one family. The director of …

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Two Italian men, pilot Marcos Ponce and Paolo Barbi, and two Dominican women, Gloria Rodriguez and Bladimirca Rodriguez, died when their plane crashed into the Vuelta de la Selva Mountain in the province of Monte Plata, north of Santo Domingo. The plane took off on Tuesday, 8 June at 2:45pm from Herrera en route to …

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A Dominican-Italian was voted Miss Universe Italy on 10 June. Maria Teresa Francville Dominguez, at age 17, is the daughter of a Dominican mother and Italian father. She is the second Miss Universe representative from Italy. In 1996, the Italians chose Denny Mendez as their Miss Italy, who went on to become one of the …

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DR1 Daily News will not be published tomorrow, a religious holiday commemorating Corpus Christi. As it lands on a Thursday, many people in the Dominican Republic will use the opportunity to take a long weekend holiday. With most schools? final tests just over, the holiday also marks the start of the summer vacations. The DR1 …

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El Caribe is reporting that the Superintendent of Electricity wants to spread out the blackouts that are affecting the entire country, so that they are more ?equalized.? As reported, the plan is to ?distribute? two-hour blackouts to all of the circuits on the national grid and avoid the 10-hour+ daily blackouts that have become so …

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Hoy newspaper?s editorial today hammers the government for what it views as an irresponsible attitude regarding the present power crisis. ?The power service crisis may have several causes and explanations, but the fundamental reason for everything is the lack of responsibility with which the relations of the different participants in the power sector with the …

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The high-level IMF team has left the Dominican Republic without reaching any decisions on the second review of the Stand By Agreement signed last August. Nor was a date set for sending a tax reform bill to Congress. On one hand, the government is saying that it is up to the incoming PLD officials to …

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President-elect Leonel Fernandez and President Hipolito Mejia will get together to discuss the tax reform package being requested by the International Monetary Fund and the business and commercial sectors of the Dominican Republic. Apparently, Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado had a hand in scheduling the meeting over the insistence of President Mejia that he would not …

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Economist Pedro Silverio takes on the problem of all the tax reform and logical adjustments that will have to be made by the government and the general population in today?s El Caribe. As he says, the tax reform proposal has produced much political debate over the distribution of the ?adjustments.? In doing this, he says, …

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