2004 – Page 242

Police spokesman Colonel Damian Arias Matos told reporters that three men died in shootouts with officers of the Department of Monetary Crimes and the Inspector’s Office of Stolen Vehicles in Santiago yesterday. As reported in the Listin Diario, Silverio Camilio (AKA Nino), an unnamed Haitian man and another Dominican named Arismendy were killed as they …

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President Hipolito Mejia has come out in favour of building hotels on national park property. As reported in Hoy newspaper, the President says he agrees with being flexible with the use of the protected areas and that the bill to modify the law to allow hotel construction has the support of 90% of the senators. …

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Environment Minister Frank Moya Pons gave instructions to his ministry’s attorney general to take measures that would ensure that the National Park of the East continues to be handled in accordance with Environmental Law 64-00, which dates back to 18 August 2000. “Amidst the press coverage of the intent to mutilate and occupy a portion …

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Jose Hidalgo, president of the Spanish tourism conglomerate Globalia, was in Santo Domingo yesterday, where he spoke to the press and declared that he paid a big sum of money five years ago for the property located within the boundaries of the National Park of the East, where he intends to build a hotel complex. …

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The president of the National Council of Transport says that problems with Plan Renove detected in the Controller’s Office audit are 90% solved. Siquio Ng de la Rosa ordered the audit upon being entrusted with the project’s execution. He said that accounting controls were put into place, missing units have been located and contracts signed …

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One of the most criticized irregularities revealed by the audit is the confirmation that Hyundai Americas Corporation, a company that was not registered with the tax department, sold 1,102 vehicles for US$56.5 million to Plan Renove. Ramon Perez Figuereo says that the informality has resulted in what he then alerted could happen. Today Hyundai Americas …

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Yesterday, the director of the Department of Taxes (DGII), Teofilo (Quico) Tabar, announced that January government revenues from income taxes were up 68% compared to the same month in 2003. He said the government collected RD$5.8 billion, for a RD$2.3 billion increase over January 2003. Tabar attributed the elevated revenues to the additional payments received …

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The president of the National Association of Gasoline Retailers (Anadegas), Juan Ignacio Espaillat, confirmed that diesel and gasoline fuel continue to be scarce and that the Dominican Petroleum Refinery and importing companies have reduced their inventories. Espaillat told the Listin Diario that more than 60 of its member gas retailers do not have gasoline or …

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Last week the president of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, Amaury Justo Duarte, said that the dispatch of fuel would be regularized – an event that has yet to happen. In an editorial today, Hoy newspaper criticizes the fact that the government official’s statements do not correspond with reality, citing further examples of the paradox. For …

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The president of the Dominican Refinery of Petroleum (Refidomsa), Amaury Justo Duarte, said that the refinery has lost RD$872 million in the past 30 days. Justo Duarte attributed the recent losses to exchange rate distortions and said that the government had been using a rate for price calculations that did not coincide with the cost …

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