2005 – Page 191

Despite the interest rate dropping to 13.41%, there was much demand for the certificates auctioned last 27 April, as reported in El Caribe. Economic reporter Edwin Ruiz says that individual investors make up 42.4% of the holders of these CDs. Commercial banks concentrate 33.1% of the Cds. Banks had RD$43.7 billion in Central Bank CDs …

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The recently created National Commission for Ethics and Fight against Corruption requested that government prosecutors and the Controller General’s Office investigate the complaints about irregularities in the construction and equipping of the building shared by the Supreme Court of Justice and the Attorney General offices. They requested that the findings be made public and those …

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Laetitia Dumas, technical advisor of the International Labor Organization’s Child Labor Eradication Program (OIT-IPEC) estimates that 436,000 children ages five to 17 years are exploited with work. Of these 160,000 carry out farm work that should only be for adults. She said that in rural areas, 18.4% of children work, primarily in the rice, coffee, …

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Laetitia Dumas, technical advisor of the International Labor Organization’s Child Labor Eradication Program (OIT-IPEC) complained that in the DR there is such a high tolerance to the sexual exploitation of minors that many times the pimps are seen as protectors of the children they exploit. She mentioned that two months ago there was a pimp …

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Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito confirmed that Shlomo Bentov alias Sam Goodson, accused of fraud against the Dominican state through the Plan Renove, has lied. Dominguez said he has proof that Goodson left the DR through Haiti, not through Las Americas International Airport, as Goodson declared to the press. Dominguez Brito said that this confirmation …

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The Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) chose former four-time president of the Chamber of Deputies Rafaela Alburquerque (Lila) to preside the party for 18 days until a new president is chosen in the election scheduled for 22 May. The president of the PRSC, Federico Antun Batlle has taken a leave of absence because he is …

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President Leonel Fernandez signed into law the congressional act that names the changes the name of the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Stadium to honor 400-meter hurdler Felix Sanchez. Felix Sanchez won the country’s first gold medal in an Olympics, during the Athens Olympics. Felix Sanchez is in the DR for the Felix Sanchez Invitational scheduled …

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The Iberoamerican Governance Barometer poll lists President Leonel Fernandez with the highest domestic approval rate in Iberoamerica. Next were the Presidents of Uruguay (80%), Argentina (77%), Chile (76%), Colombia (71%), Puerto Rico (67%), Venezuela 65%). The Consorcio Iberoamericano de Empresas de Investigacion de Mercados y Asesoramiento (CIMA) carried out the poll. In the Dominican Republic, …

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Executive editor of the Diario Libre, Adriano Miguel Tejada, a former press secretary to President Leonel Fernandez in his first term, writes today in his page two column about incoherence in government. He comments that the government cannot work out why people are not pleased, despite the many achievements of the government. To explain, he …

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Antonieta Rodriguez Solano, wife of former chief of security of former President Hipolito Mejia, Pedro Julio (Pepe) Goico, sent a legal notification to district attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero to explain that her husband is not in the country and thus cannot comply with the petition to visit the prosecutor’s office for questioning in the …

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