2004 – Page 85

Insurance Superintendent Euclides Gutierrez Feliz said that as of Tuesday, police officers had returned 85 of the estimated 300 vehicles that are unlawfully in their possession. In a recent controversy, it emerged that the police force had distributed recovered stolen vehicles among its officers without notifying the proprietors. Following Police Chief Major Perez Sanchez’s request …

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The Listin Diario’s political analyst Orlando Gil shares today the experiences of a Dominican journalist, Nelson Encarnacion, now living in New York, who wrote to him to tell him of two encounters related to the police scandal now making news. He first tells of a woman who had reported the theft of her BMW to …

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Alberto Leroux, the president of the Consejo Nacional del Comercio en Provisiones, and Julian Antonio Parra, the president of the Asociacion Nacional de Comerciantes Mayoristas de los Mercados, two merchant organizations, object to cattleranchers being handed the ownership of Parmalat Dominicana. They explain how the company benefited in 1994, when the Dominican government, represented by …

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Former Vice-President Milagros Ortiz Bosch, in a letter to the Listin Diario today, takes issue with the fact that lawyer Marino (Vincho) Vinicio Castillo included her among the former government officers he alleged had ordered “the squandering of criminal evidence” such as luxury vehicles, apartments, farmland and other property confiscated from Dominicans and foreigners arrested …

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Diario Libre today tells of how in the first five months of the season, Dominican Major League ball players, Adrian Beltre (Los Angeles Dodgers), Alberto Pujols (St. Louis Cardinals), Manny Ramirez (Boston Red Sox), Miguel Tejada (Baltimore Orioles), David Ortiz (Boston Red Sox), and Ronnie Belliard (Cleveland Indians) are dominating the quest to lead in …

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As reported on the DR1 Weather & Beyond Forum, Hurricane Ivan is no longer a threat for the Dominican Republic, although some rain and wind could be felt on the southern coast. DR1 weather experts indicate that Ivan is expected to pass well south of the DR, under the influence of a strong subtropical high …

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President Leonel Fernandez has appointed Roberto Rodriguez Marchena as the official government spokesman. Rodriguez explained that his post was created to make the flow of information to the Dominican press more expeditious. President Fernandez has been rarely available for comments to the local press, contrasting with the constant accessibility of his predecessor, President Hipolito Mejia. …

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Vehicles parked on city sidewalks will be towed away by the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) and their owners forced to pay between RD$800 and RD$4,500 for the service, in addition to fines of RD$500 to RD$1,000. To effect this plan, the AMET will have 30 tow trucks at its disposal, as agreed to by AMET …

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Taxes collected by the government were up 14% in August, according to preliminary figures from the Finance Ministry. The official report says that as of 27 August, the government had received RD$9.22 billion, representing 14% more than what had been budgeted for the month. The total does not include government collections for the exchange surcharge …

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Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso announced the opening of an Indian Embassy in Santo Domingo and a counterpart Dominican Embassy in New Delhi, India. He made the announcement on occasion of the visit of his Indian colleague, Rao Inderjit Singh. The foreign minister explained that the government of India is interested in manufacturing products …

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