2004 – Page 84

Jose Alfredo Rizek, the executive director of the Foundation for Institutionalism and Justice (FINJUS), debates in El Caribe today the statement of Police Chief Major General Manuel Perez Sanchez, who asserted that the officers who had returned stolen vehicles recovered by police but not reported had turned them over in “good faith.” Rizek disputes the …

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Besides a lot of missing vehicles, there appear to be a lot of missing weapons that need to be accounted for by the National Police. According to the Santo Domingo District Attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero, it is not only luxury SUVs and other top-of-the-line vehicles that have vanished from the inventory of confiscated items. …

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After an all-too-brief respite, the blackouts have returned to punish a population that was just getting used to having electricity more often than not. Due to a reported mechanical problem, the AES-Andres generator went offline and a short circuit in the Palamara-Hainamosa line caused a general blackout that lasted for seven hours. Besides AES-Andres, the …

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El Caribe reports that, after several hours of standoff with police, one of the men implicated in the multiple homicide that took place in Navarrete two days ago has turned himself him. Known only as “Jochy,” the man awaited the presence of a district attorney before his surrender. Police say he is a presumed local …

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Luis Alfonso de Borbon, a legitimate descendent of the French monarchy, will marry Maria Margarita Vargas of Venezuela on 6 November in the Dominican Republic. El Caribe reports that the nuptials were announced today in the Spanish magazine “Lecturas,” according to which the couple have begun to send out their invitations to a mainly European …

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DR1 readers are urged to be extra careful if they plan to travel along George Washington Avenue (El Malecon), as high seas and violent wave action caused traffic problems in several areas yesterday. El Caribe reports that several of the large concrete benches that comprise one of the avenue’s attractions have been displaced by the …

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Finance Minister Vicente Bengoa, Customs Director Miguel Cocco and director of Internal Revenues Juan Hernandez have asked the Senate to approve the tax reform bill as received from the Chamber of Deputies. As it currently stands, the bill includes a controversial 25% surcharge on corn syrup imports, which was lobbied for by the local sugar …

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Several new museum directors have been chosen and these are Carlos Hernandez Soto, Dominican Man Museum; Ana Yee de Cury, Museo de las Casas Reales; Maria Elena Ditren, Modern Art Museum; Hector Luis Martinez, Museum of History and Geography; Juan Bautista Mieses Pimentel, Columbus Lighthouse museum; and Luisa Genoveva de Pena Diaz, National Museum Network. …

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The Fernandez administration has plans to centralize all government communication with the press and public, according to presidential spokesman Roberto Rodriguez Marchena. The information agencies of the new government are Direccion de Informacion, Analysis y Programacion de Estrategia (Carlos Dore); Direccion de Informacion y Prensa de la Presidencia (Rafael Nunez) and the Centro de Informacion …

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President Leonel Fernandez pledged yesterday to uphold a policy of zero tolerance for delinquency in the Dominican Republic. He expressed his concern at the recent rise in criminal activity, which he views as a result of the moral decomposition that has besieged Dominican society. He announced that he had met with Armed Forces Minister Admiral …

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