2004 – Page 86

The US has taken the position that if the Dominican Senate keeps the 25% tax on corn syrup imported from the US added in the Chamber of Deputies to the tax reform proposal currently being debated, they will discard the bilateral free trade accord with the Dominican Republic. The additional tax was requested by the …

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The Supreme Court of Justice ordered that the Listin Diario be returned to its former proprietors prior to the government intervention. Ramon Baez Romano called the decision a “transcendental act for the history of freedom of the press and business in the Dominican Republic.” Following the change of government, the Central Bank, which took control …

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Lawyer Marino (Vincho) Vinicio Castillo, a former president of the National Council of Drugs (CND), and head of the legal counsel of banker Ramon Baez Figueroa of Baninter, said yesterday on the Cesar Medina and Yolanda Martinez television talk show that the lot on which former President Hipolito Mejia built his large mountain residence and …

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Three foreign women inmates in Najayo are bitter about allegedly having paid a large sum of money to be pardoned by former Attorney General Victor Cespedes, whose office set an all time record in jail pardonings. The new director of prisons forwarded this testimony to District Attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez, together with that of several …

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Former Attorney General Virgilio Bello Rosa is opposed to Dominican Revolutionary Party members defending officials of the past government against whom there is evidence of corruption. The lawyer, who resigned from his post over a disagreement with measures taken by the Mejia administration, said he would not defend these people even if it were former …

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Police chief Manuel de Jesus Perez Sanchez is in a difficult situation. His decision to give police officers 72 hours to return vehicles unlawfully in their possession seems to have opened a can of worms and provoked the ire of the citizenry. Of the 300 vehicles in question, some 60 have been returned. These are …

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At least four of the seven youths riddled with bullets in a house under construction in Navarrete, a town next to Santiago de los Caballeros, had been tortured before their executions. General Bernardo Santiago, the police investigator assigned to the case, says that so far the only certainty was that the crime committed was a …

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Seems the DR will not get a direct hit by Hurricane Ivan as it makes it way westward. If the storm maintains its western course, it may not even be felt in most areas. As reported on the DR1 Weather & Beyond Forum, as of the 11am National Hurricane Center advisories, Ivan is currently to …

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The public system schools, ready or not, will receive 2,592,997 children returning from their summer holidays today. At the youngest level, toddlers are expected to number 245,000, primary schools will have their hands full with their 1,814,753 expected students and high schools have enrolled 532,833. The new school year will be officially recognized in a …

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Vice President Rafael Alburquerque, who is the head of the new Sistema Unico de Beneficiarios, a program to benefit the Dominican Republic’s poor, said the Siuben program will reach out to 1.2 million families in its first phase. The United Nations, the Interamerican Development Bank and the World Bank will assist the government in the …

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