2004 – Page 71

Servio Tulio Castanos Guzman was appointed the new director of the Fundacion Institucionalidad y Justicia (FINJUS), after predecessor Jose Alfredo Rizek left to become the president of INDOTEL. A report in Diario Libre today says that Castanos is a summa cum laude graduate of law from the state university UASD, a well-known professor of law, …

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President Hipolito Mejia decreed that the company Cheng Chua y Chow be authorized to use 60 meters of state territory to build part of their Cabanas Hey Okey, where rooms are rented out for hours. As reported in Diario Libre, Decree 747-04 was issued on 5 August 2004 ? 11 days before Mejia left government …

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At least five people were poisoned, of which three have died, after eating a fatal lunch in Cotui. The group was comprised of laborers working at a Cotui farm in El Hato. The deceased were identified as Tomas Rojas, 34, Crucito Baez Nolasco, 56, and Jose Eduvirgen de la Cruz, 58. Two of the men …

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Film producer Jose Enrique “Pinky” Pintor fulfilled his promise to premiere his film “La carcel La Victoria, el cuarto hombre” in the Dominican Republic at the La Victoria jail where it was filmed. The Listin Diario reports today that some 5,000 inmates gathered in the ball field of the prison to view the film on …

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President Leonel Fernandez met yesterday for two and a half hours with the presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, US Ambassador Hans Hertell and Monsignor Agripino Nunez at the Presidential Palace. The purpose of the encounter was to find a solution to the impasse over the corn syrup surcharge that was included …

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PUCMM professor of economy Federico Cuello feels the DR would be better off to discontinue the FTA proceedings with the US. “The DR-CAFTA continues to be touted as the salvation to achieving free trade with the US before the culmination of the FTAA. As if the trade preferences are to expire before 2008,” he writes …

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Interior & Police Minister Franklin Almeyda Rancier said that neither his office nor the National Police would reveal the names of those police generals who illicitly made use of recovered stolen vehicles because the new penal code does not allow it. Journalist Rafael Molina Morillo had asked Almeyda, as the overseer of the National Police, …

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Juan Miguel Castillo Pantaleon, a lawyer and former judge, said that the new penal code as established by Law 76-02 will make it very difficult to sentence jail terms for members of the previous government suspected of corruption. He told Hoy newspaper that, according to the new code, if prosecutors do not present a formal …

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The tax reform bill sent by the Senate to the Executive Branch for its ratification is plagued with errors, reports the Listin Diario today. Senate leader Andres Bautista said that because of time constraints, untoward circumstances and a general rush, the tax reform package was forwarded with errors still remaining in its text, but that …

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The Public Works Ministry has repaired the two bridges that suffered damages following the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Jeanne in the eastern region of the country last week. The government removed the debris caused by the intense rainfall that came when the storm remained stationary over the area for several hours on Thursday, 16 …

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