2005 – Page 202

The president of the Santo Domingo North Chamber of Commerce, Frank Reinaldo Quinones, told reporters that his people are willing to desist from the purchase of 1,600 sidearms and dismantle the proposed “Elite Force” if there is a government promise to face up to the delinquency problems the merchant group has been facing these past …

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During yesterday’s expanded Cabinet meeting held yesterday at the Presidential Palace, President Leonel Fernandez said that the country has been plundered several times and that the patience of the Dominican people is wearing thin, as reported in Hoy newspaper. In a speech he read during the meeting, the President said that he will strive for …

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The president of the Chamber of Accounts, the government body in charge of supervising the use of funds in government departments, says that they have started an investigation into the completion of the Supreme Court of Justice building, including its decorating and furnishing, as reported in Diario Libre. News reports have mentioned the differences between …

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Supreme Court Judge Jorge Subero Isa said that the Court had nothing to do with the design, construction and equipping of the new building, as reported in the Listin Diario. He said that the Supreme Court has not even received an inventory of the furniture of the building. Subero’s statement comes after lawyer Marino Vinicio …

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The government has given car owners a further 15 days to get their “revista”. The 2005 sticker costs RD$45 pesos. Long lines of cars have queued up at the centers issuing the document. Rafael Tobias Crespo, in charge of the DGTT, says that the stickers are available all year round and urged that car owners …

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The National Investigations Department announced the discovery of 5,000 boxes containing several brands of contraband whisky and liquors as well as two million government tax stickers in a home in Reparto Oquet in Santiago. The haul is estimated to be worth RD$100 million and belongs to businessman Cesar Pichardo, brother of Julio Pichardo, from whom …

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The director of Customs, Miguel Cocco has threatened to sue journalists Fausto Rosario Adames and Juan Bolivar Diaz and businessman Jose Luis (Pepin) Corripio’s publishing house for their questioning on the Jornada Extra TV show of the purchase price of building where the Customs Department will be relocated. Cocco had announced that the building, the …

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Scotiabank announced it would be offering 30-year mortgages at an annual interest rate of 23%. These can be approved in 24 hours and can finance up to 80% of the dwelling. In its campaign announcing the new financing scheme Scotiabank’s Luis Miguel Hejaime says he is responding to complaints that in the DR it was …

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The president of the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants, Enrique Eduardo de Marchena Kaluche rejected the imposition of new taxes on the sector as untimely. “Tourism activity in the DR is already taxed highly enough and generates enough fiscal revenues for the country. More taxes are not necessary to finance public works,” he said, …

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Former President Hipolito Mejia has justified the distribution of attractively priced greenhouses to officers in his government as a policy to stimulate agriculture. He equated the policy to the distribution of apartments and houses to government officers and those with political influence in previous administrations. He mentioned that the incentives provided for the greenhouses is …

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