2004 – Page 270

PRSC vice-president and senator for the PRSC Jose Hazim Frappier said that legislators want to unite the presidential and legislative elections so they can extend their terms in Congress. Last week, PRD party president Hatuey De Camps said that the legislators want to exchange extending their terms two more years for passing the Ley de …

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According to Hoy, the Executive Commission of the PRSC has instructed its legislators not to participate in any chambers where the proposed Law of Lemas might be discussed. The PRSC told the press that it considers the new proposal to be an unnatural process for the 16 May elections. Only 14 of the 35 PRSC …

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Two insurance companies in New York have warned the Dominican government that if before Wednesday, 14 January, the government does not pay the US$31-million debt that the CDEEE has with the Cogentrix generation plant in San Pedro de Macoris, they will invoke the loan guarantee with the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), which amounts to US$300 …

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The national Free Trade Zones council has issued permits for ten more companies to set up factories in the Dominican Republic. Jeanette Dominguez, director of the FTZ council, said yesterday that the new companies would be operating in Santiago, San Pedro de Macoris, Nigua and Bani, among others, and would generate an estimated 3,000 new …

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In contrast to the Dominican rum producers, as reported in last week’s DR1 news, the country’s beer manufacturers have welcomed the new tax law as part of the 2004 budget in which alcoholic drinks are taxed according to alcoholic grade. This new system favors the beer sector because it will lead to a reduction in …

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Among those who received Presidential pardons last month was the “King of Ecstasy”, Juan Carlos Ozuna, a convicted drug dealer sentenced to serve five years. According to Diario Libre, members of the pardons review committee said that several pardoned convicts were not screened by the committee and their pardons were therefore a surprise. Ozuna was …

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The police announced that charges would be filed against the four patrol agents who murdered 25-year-old Arlene Perez as she sat in a parked car talking with her boyfriend, Juan Jose Herasme Alfonso, outside her home in Cuesta Brava of Arroyo Hondo, in the early hours of last Thursday. The boyfriend’s father, journalist Silvio Herasme …

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Headline news in all of today’s press is the classification of the Dominican women’s volleyball team for the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, this summer. The team defeated the previously unbeaten Peruvians three sets to none (25-20, 25-18, and 25-21) to secure their trip to Greece. Previously, the Dominican women had defeated the host Venezuelan …

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President Hipolito Mejia travels to Monterrey, Mexico on Monday to take part in the Special Summit of the Americas on the 12 and 13 of this month. With attendees such as United States President George Bush expected, the gathering will unite representatives of 34 member nations of the OAS (Organization of American States). The heads …

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President Hipolito Mejia said yesterday on the TV program “El Dia”, produced by Huchi Lora and Ramon Nunez, that if his party needs to impose the Ley de Lemas, it will do so, because power is made to be exercised. “If it has to be imposed, it will be imposed, because that is your role …

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