2005 – Page 105

This is the third consecutive year that Banco Popular is selected “Bank of the Year of the Dominican Republic” by the magazine The Banker, edited by the Financial Times of London. El Caribe reports that the classifications made by this magazine are based on rigorous and objective analyses of business and finance in over 130 …

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Tourism businessman Rafael Blanco Canto, a former president of the National Hotel & Restaurant Association has said that the Dominican Republic has lost its competitiveness in the Caribbean tourism market and is beginning to confront difficulties due to increasing operational costs. He said that the reasons behind the increases in costs is the 26% appreciation …

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PRD leaders have classified the first year of the PLD administration as negative, mostly in the economic aspect, “despite the constructive cooperation it has received from opposition parties”. PRD president Ramon Alburquerque stated that after one year of the PLD in office, there is less employment and lower income, higher crime and cost of living. …

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A child was wounded by a stray bullet resulting from a gang fight in Villa Consuelo yesterday. Three other people were also wounded. A report in Diario Libre states that eight-year-old Coralis Severino was taken to Rodriguez Santos Clinic after being hit in the left thigh by a bullet while a neighbor was combing her …

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At a press conference yesterday, the Interior and Police Minister Frankin Almeyda Rancier delivered 14 Harley Davidson motorcycles to the Chief of Police, General Bernardo Santana Paes. The bikes cost US$17,000 each, and are to be used immediately for the patrolling of Capotillo in the northern part of Santo Domingo. He said that the agents …

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Army personnel have arrested 480 illegal Haitian immigrants and seized six vehicles and commodities at different border checkpoints near Dajabon. El Caribe reports that the Haitians crossed the border on four buses and admitted paying between RD$1,300 and RD$1,500 to be taken to Santiago. They were taken to the Army base at Dajabon from where …

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Seven 12-milimeter rifles, one 45-caliber pistol, and one 38-caliber revolver, together with 20,000 bullets for Fal and M-16 guns destined for Haiti were seized in the community of El Limon, in Jimani province. Hoy reports that this is the largest weapons smuggling operation intercepted during the last months. During a press conference, army spokesman Colonel …

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President Leonel Fernandez will launch today the school year from San Francisco de Macoris as he spends the next few days in the eastern part of the fertile Cibao Valley. Waiting for the President are dozens, if not hundreds of groups, each one with a sheaf full of requests for jobs, public works and solutions …

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Education Minister Alejandrina German has told Hoy newspaper that her department would be encouraging schools to emphasize reading in the school year that starts today nationwide. This year, students will be required to devote at least one hour to reading and analyzing texts. It will be obligatory to read a short story to pre-school children …

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Education Minister Alejandrina German has told Hoy newspaper that there are public schools in border provinces where all the students are Haitian children who have crossed the border most illegally. She said that this is the case in the provinces of Elias Pina and Pedernales, as well as in the border town of Jimani. She …

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