2005 – Page 169

Diario Libre reports that the government has granted a 40-year permit to Inversiones Turisticas San Souci entrusting the administration, security, custody, tariff charging and facilities upkeep of the Port of Santo Domingo to this company that has proposed to build a mega port, residential, hotel and commercial renovation. No tender was held for the granting …

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Santo Domingo Mayor Roberto Salcedo has announced that he will not allow the city to be littered with political propaganda. The three leading political parties’ internal election processes have led to the posting of billboards and posters of leadership hopefuls across the city. Likewise, the municipal and congressional elections are due in May 2006. Salcedo …

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A report in Hoy newspaper’s economic section focuses on the distortion in the Dominican electricity market that rations the consumption of paying clients, while at the same time stimulates the consumption of those that do not pay, affecting the financial sustainability of the sector. The non-paying consumers are heavily subsidized by the government at a …

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Mu Kien Adriana Sang Ben, of the Department of Education of the Pontificia Unviersidad Catolica Madre y Maestra told Hoy newspaper in an interview that one of the main problems affecting the quality of public education in the DR is the fact that of 1,000 hours on the official calendar school year, students receive barely …

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St. George School, with 40 years in operation, denied having expelled Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo’s three children in a paid advertisement published in today’s news media. The lawyer representing the children had complained to the media about the children’s premature expulsion two weeks before the end of the school year. The school explains that the …

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Former Air Force chief, retired General Virgilio Sierra Perez stated in a document delivered to the National District prosecutors that former army captain Quirino Paulino Castillo did not intervene in the construction of the Elias Pina landing field. Quirino Paulino was extradited to the US where he awaits trial for drug smuggling. In a document …

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Judge Esther Agelan Casasnovas rejected questioning former presidential security advisor, Colonel Pedro Julio Goico (Pepe Goico) because this would delay the Hernani Salazar vs. Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo libel case for more than 10 days, as Goico is abroad. She did accept the request by Vincho Castillo’s defense that Salazar’s associate Jose Ramon Lopez Reyes …

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Judge Francisco Alberto Valera has ordered a year of prison for Irma Diaz de Valenzuela, sister of suspended Roman Catholic Church deacon Meregildo Diaz y Diaz, accused of the murder of Joel Alexander Sarmientos and Yaniris Ruiz Sanchez. The judge based his decision on the fact that Irma Diaz could be considered an accomplice to …

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The summer heats up to the beat of contemporary jazz with Thursday jazz performances at Casa de Teatro in the Colonial zone. As reported in El Caribe, jazz groups from seven countries will be performing for the Sixth Casa de Teatro summer jazz festival. Center director Freddy Ginebra, announced that several other cultural activities will …

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The Dominican government is going to try and keep the propane subsidy because of the tremendous political and “social” cost it will incur if it removes the subsidy for all but the poorest families. The government is holding talks with the IMF with the aim of postponing the removal of the subsidy and is promising …

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