2005 – Page 179

The vice president of the Foundation for Institutionality and Justice, Servio Tulio Castanas, in his column in El Caribe today, calls the reading of the 2005 Human Development Report prepared by the United Nations Development Program an obligatory task for all conscientious citizens and especially for those that have tasks of social responsibility. He highlights …

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George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode III. Revenge of the Sith premiered in the DR on 16 May. Since then, there have been long lines at the theaters where the film is showing in Santo Domingo, Santiago and La Romana. Catch the film at cinemas at Bella Vista Mall, Acropolis, Megacentro, Diamond Mall, Broadway Cinemas, Cinema …

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President Leonel Fernandez will travel tomorrow to San Francisco, California to be present at the unveiling of a 9 foot bronze statue dedicated to former San Francisco Giants pitcher, Juan Marichal. To this day, Hall of Famer Juan Marichal is regarded as the best pitcher ever to play for the San Francisco Giants. The unveiling …

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President Leonel Fernandez was in Santiago yesterday to inaugurate the new installations of the Centro Universitario Regional de Santiago, an extension of the UASD, the state university. The facilities cost RD$560 million. The government university center has four classroom buildings, chemistry, physics, engineering, architecture and graphic arts labs building and a modern library with halls …

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President Leonel Fernandez said in Santiago yesterday that the government had reached an agreement with the Haitian authorities to stop repatriations of Haitians. “The topic of migration is always the expression of a ccountry’s sovereignity and that the Dominican Republic has to define,” said President Fernandez. “Remember that migration is potestad of the sovereignty of …

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The laissez-faire attitude of the authorities regarding crimes affecting Haitians and Dominicans on the border has stirred Dominicans to take action on their own, which is increasing the tensions on the border. Father Regino Martinez of the Jesuit Service to Refugees and Migrants told El Caribe that the authorities have been lax in dealing with …

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Economic progress has not trickled down in the DR, said Miguel Ceara Hatton, speaking yesterday during the launching of the 2005 Human Development Report of the Dominican Republic – Towards an inclusive and renewed global insertion. Despite experiencing an average 5+% GDP over the past 50 years, in 2002 the DR occupied the 13th place …

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The number of legally inexistent Dominicans, estimated at around one million, is of much concern to national authorities. Some estimates indicate that 25% of Dominican-born population has never been registered, and does not have either a birth certificate or an ID card (cedula). Vice President Rafael Alburquerque, Luis Arias, president of the Central Electoral Board …

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The Listin Diario today calls attention to the threat that the governmental INESPRE department may compete with the private sector in providing food staples that are produced or readily available here. The newspaper’s sources indicate the government is about to use INESPRE to import items such as red beans, pasta, canned fish, oatmeal, powdered milk, …

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Lawyer Marisol Vicens, writing in El Caribe, urges that the focus of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) be on the preparing for the implementing of the preferential voting system at the municipal level. This would enable voters to choose their councilmen. So far, parties have chosen the councilmen, and voters have only been able to …

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