2004 – Page 61

The Chamber of Accounts, the body in charge of auditing use of government funds, has reopened the case of the Plan Renove based on a governmental audit. There has been a volley of insults among those who were involved in the plan promoted during the Mejia administration as the solution to public transportation in the …

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Economist Arturo Martinez Moya says that the country cannot continue importing the same volume of fuel given the present record high prices. He urged the government alert the population and create a national plan to save fuel. He urged that a well thought savings energy savings program be implemented immediately. He said that if savings …

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El Caribe newspaper today highlights that there is a need to break down institutional obstacles and market structures so that currency trading in the DR can fluctuate more with market forces. The newspaper reports that the way the system works today, five money dealers receive more than 50% of the hefty profits made by the …

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The Consumer Price Index shows a 1.13% decline in September compared to August, according to the Central Bank. The Central Bank points out that this is the first time that in September there is a decline in inflation. September is usually a month when prices increase primarily because it is the month when stores stock …

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The National District judge hearing the case presented by Manuel Guaroa Liranzo against former Baninter bank president Ramon Baez Figueroa for alleged contract abridgement has been shelved after Liranzo retrieved the suit, as reported in Hoy newspaper. Liranzo was the treasurer of the Baninter bank until its collapse. Despite being the treasurer of the bank …

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Over the weekend, the Police detained Cuban-American Ana Ibis Marti, co-owner of a free zone in San Pedro de Macoris, for questioning. Marti said she was co-owner of the BMW X5 station wagon that was recovered from the bottom of the Caribbean Sea fronting Las Americas Highway. She explained she had borrowed in a finance …

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Diario Libre points out that the prison authorities have authorized that leading Dominican drug trafficker, Florian Feliz, who is kept at a maximum security cell in the Monte Plata pen, be visited by his dentist who has improved his smile with new braces. Nuria Piera, Channel 9 investigative journalist, broke the story on her TV …

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Some 4,222 Dominicans were deported from the United States to the DR from January to August 2004, almost double the 2,327 that were deported during the first eight months of 2003. The number is 30% more than the 3,284 that were deported in the entire year 2003. From 1998 to 2003, some 19,934 Dominicans have …

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Despite the fact that the billionaire infrastructure built by the past government for the Pan American Games is in a state of practical abandonment, the government could be considering completing the Monte Plata installations for the Monte Plata National Games. In the Dominican Republic, almost all large installations built for the national sports games quickly …

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Claudia Cruz was chosen the Dominican representative to the Miss World pageant to be held on 4 December in China. The Dominican Republic won the Miss World contest in 1982 with Mariasela Alvarez. The country also has won the Miss Universe contest with Amelia Vega (2003). This year, the public could call in and vote …

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