2004 – Page 226

All of today’s press report on President Jean Bertrand Aristide’s departure from Port-au-Prince yesterday morning aboard a jet bound for Antigua. After much speculation last night as to the Haitian leader’s exact whereabouts, the most recent reports confirm he arrived in the Central African Republic this morning. The chief justice of Haiti’s Supreme Court, Boniface …

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Diario Libre editor Adriano Tejada summed up the Presidential address of last Friday, casting two friends, Red and White (PRD and PRSC party colors), together to hear the speech’s delivery. With a little portable radio to share in case the lights went out, the two laughed at the camera shots, such as when Mejia referred …

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A four-month period of workshops and discussion between The National Energy Commission (CNE) and market agents, international organizations and business representatives concluded that in order to reform the energy sector, one factor must be guaranteed: that the government play no role in the process of electrical generation or distribution. According to the blueprint for the …

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The financial officer of the San Pedro de Macoris Electric Company (Cogentrix), Leonel Mesa, announced on Saturday that his facility would increase its output to 300 megawatts of energy during the first weeks of March. Mesa told reporters from the Listin Diario that the boost would be possible because the new turbines for Unit III …

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The San Jose Accords, signed in 1980 to facilitate the supply of petroleum and petroleum derivatives to the oil-poor nations of the Caribbean Basin (Barbados, Belice, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama and Dominican Republic) is not being used to its best effects, according to a report in today’s Diario Libre. …

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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Jorge Subero Isa questioned the need to convene the National Council of Magistrates, especially since the Supreme Court’s benches are presently full. He told reporters that some legislators lack time even to read the newspapers and sometimes “they do not know what the Supreme Court is doing,” as every …

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Over the long weekend, the papers were filled with political statements from all three major parties. President Mejia’s speech was fully analyzed, criticized and praised, according to the political tendency of each politician. Perhaps the most important news of the weekend, however, had to do with automobiles, and Hoy, El Caribe and the Listin Diario …

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Puerto Rican representative Ramon Ruiz Nieves told reporters that he favors the use of Dominican farm laborers to harvest coffee crops in Puerto Rico. The Democratic Popular Party legislator, representing the mountainous area of Lares, Adjuntas, Jayuya, and Utuado, said that farmers from the areas around Lares, Maricao and Las Marias have demonstrated the need …

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The United States Coast Guard rescued 15 men and 4 women in a 20-foot, single-motor fiberglass boat. The tiny craft was spotted by a tugboat on its way from San Juan to Philadelphia. The Coast Guard sent a plane and helicopter to pick up the voyagers who were lost at sea 150 kilometers North of …

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Cell phone use in the Dominican Republic saw a 33.4% increase last year. According to the data of INDOTEL, the number of fixed, residential telephones fell 0.1% as cell phones in use leapt to 2,120,426 units last year, most of which were digital. Cell phones are also supplanting the use of pagers. Over the past …

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