2004 – Page 227

The National Direction of Drug Control (DNCD) arrested Jose Arismendy Almonte Pena, better known as “Joselito.com,” under charges of narcotics trafficking on a national and international level. The popular bachata artist was detained on Saturday near the toll booth on Km 25 of the Duarte Highway, en route to his hometown of Santiago, said Lt. …

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DR1 Daily News will not be updated tomorrow, on occasion of the 27 of February Independence Day holiday. Headline news for the day and the rest of the weekend will be compiled for the Monday, 1 March issue. For breaking news, please refer to the DR1 Forums at http://www.dr1.com/forums

Hoy newspaper’s “Que se Dice” column says there could not be a worse idea than the government sending antiterrorist elite military forces to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to guard the Dominican embassy there. The editorialist calls the government decision “unprecedented and unjustified,” especially while rumors that Haitian insurgents were trained on Dominican soil continue to circulate. The …

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In a news story that speculate that Washington may no longer back Jean Bertrand Aristide’s government and that their covert forces could be behind the insurgents’ stronghold, an article on the Axis of Logic website points to the US M-16s being used in Gonaives, where the uprising first gained strength. The publication says that a …

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Fabio R. Herrera-Minino speculates today in Hoy newspaper that the preparation of former Cap Haitien police chief, Guy Phillippe, and his group in Dominican territory is evidence he had the backing of people in power in Santo Domingo. The Mejia administration granted political asylum to Phillippe after his exile from Haiti in 2000. Herrera-Minino writes …

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A Diario Libre editorial written by Anibal Castro says today that it is highly suspicious that, despite the supposedly efficient vigilance of the Dominican border by the Armed Forces, Guy Philippe was able to leave DR soil to emerge as the commander of the rebel Haitian forces. This border has been strengthened by an aggressive …

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Historian Jacinto Gimbernard Pellerano writes in Hoy today on the cultural differences between Haitians and Dominicans that dictate the way both countries have handled their problems. In the Dominican Republic, he explains, there was a mingling between the Africans and Spanish colonizers (the Indian population, though, was decimated or in hiding). This ethnic interconnection led …

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Philosopher David Alvarez Martin writes in El Caribe today that solidarity is the key to the cohabitation of the Dominican Republic and Haiti on the shared island of Hispaniola. He highlights that Dominicans and Haitians have values in common in terms of hospitality, hard work and pride in national identities, and this should be put …

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In the latest scandal to emerge in connection with Samana, Senate leader Jesus Vasquez (PRD) says that the Senate is still pondering the Roberto Prats-Jampi Investments concession, as authorized by Presidential Decree 569-02, dated 21 August 2002. Labor Minister Milton Ray Guevara said that on 23 January President Mejia endorsed another deal, with a company …

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The city government of Santo Domingo, under a PLD administration, is replacing trees on city streets with palm, mahogany and oak trees, in addition to those known as casuarinas and javillas. Protests have been staged for the removal of trees in avenue divisions to make way for the planting of flowers. According to a note …

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