2005 – Page 182

El Caribe newspaper today highlights that one of National District (Santo Domingo) Mayor Roberto Salcedo’s campaign promises was to fight for a code that would guarantee that whom has a house not suffer from the erecting of a building beside it. It points out that 10 days ago, Salcedo, now three years into the post, …

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The rector of the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, Roberto Reyna announced that the state university will build more extensions in the interior of the country so that 50% of its students may study in their hometowns. Furthermore, he said that in order to reduce the number of students that commute to the main campus …

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Verizon Dominicana, the leading local telecommunications company, inaugurated yesterday its new headquarters on John F. Kennedy Avenue. Jorge Ivan Ramirez, president of Verizon Dominicana said that last year the company invested US$219 million in telecommunication improvements, in addition to the US$55 million investment in the new building. The new headquarters mark the 75th year of …

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After peaking at 38% in May 2004, mortgage loan rates are dropping fast. The average as of May 2005 is 22%, and Miriam Batista, administrator of the Jose Veras & Asociados construction company, told El Caribe newspaper that they could drop much more, to 12-18%. Meanwhile, consumers complain that real estate prices in pesos continue …

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Prime Minister Gerard Latortue of Haiti urged a truce from the Dominican government to stop repatriations of Haitian nationals to avoid worsening the social and political crisis in Haiti. The request was made through the Dominican Embassy in Haiti. The reported death of a Dominican woman and serious injury of her husband in Hatillo Palma, …

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The Minister of Armed Forces Sigfrido Pared Perez announced the closing of the jail premises at the Las Americas International Airport after 35-year old Elisa Maria Payano died (reportedly from lung arrest) following being irregularly detained there for document checking. The investigation showed that her papers to travel to Spain were legitimate. She had been …

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Lawyer Marino Vinicio (Vincho) Castillo denounced that a case involving former army captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, colonel Lidio Arturo Nin Terrero and exchange house banker Eleuterio Guante in the shipment of 2,000 kilos of cocaine, has been filed away at the National Drug Control Department since those involved have not been summoned to justice. …

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The Center for Disease Control of the United States has discontinued their recommendation to take antimalarial drugs to travelers to the La Altagracia province, including the resorts at Punta Cana and Bavaro. The outbreak notice is lifted after no new malaria cases in travelers have been reported from the area since January, after 20 cases …

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Local weather forecasters alert that the rains that are affecting the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico will continue for the next 48 hours. Hoy newspaper reports that seven communities in the mountain area of Jarabacoa were isolated due to the rains, and there have been new landslides along the Luperon highway that leads to Puerto …

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According to the United Nations Development Program, “the main cause of Dominican poverty and the relatively low level of human development is not the lack of financing and economic resources, but rather the scarce commitment towards collective progress by the national political and business leadership over the last decades.” This statement is part of the …

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