2005 – Page 205

The National Police Department of Investigations announced the confiscation of 3,800 boxes of contraband hard liquor valued at RD$40 million. The whisky was confiscated in a farm warehouse on the Moca-La Vega highway. The liquor bottles included several brands stored in two freight containers. As reported in the Listin Diario the warehouse belongs to Santiago …

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In an interview with Hoy newspaper, American Chamber of Commerce president and electricity expert Kevin Manning said that the Superintendence should reduced the electricity rates. He described the cost of electricity in this country as “excessive and very negative for the competitiveness of business”. “The Superintendence of Electricity needs to reduce the rate,” he said. …

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Engineer Freddy Perez has ousted his deputy minister, architect Polibio Michel Presbot (Kalil) from his offices at the department, and his staff was also dismissed. Perez has posted soldiers at the entrance of the latter’s office. Diario Libre speculates that the conflict arose after the detection of supposed irregularities in the completion of the Supreme …

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The coordinator of the citizens rights group Participacion Ciudadana, Luis Scheker Ortiz said that “there is something rotten in the state of Denmark”, in reference to the stink of scandal that emanates from the decision to postpone the questioning of former President Hipolito Mejia by the District prosecutors in the case of former army captain …

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Hoy newspaper’s Coctelera column has a solution for the case of Kendry Morales, the star Cuban national baseball team player who defected in the hope of playing in the Major League Baseball. Kendry made his way to the Dominican Republic (how he entered the country is not explained), but his admission to the United States …

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The Dominican government will maintain its support to the Chilean candidate to secretary general of the OAS, Interior Minister Jose Miguel Insulza. Mexican Foreign Minister Derbez and Insulza of Chile tied to 17 votes in the first round of votes. Reportedly, the United States is backing Derbez. The US had backed Francisco Flores, former President …

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The Presidency of the Republic published Law No. 118-05 (dated 29 March 2005) that authorizes the Executive Branch to replace the sovereign bonds issued in 2001 and 2003 with others with better payment conditions, and more adjustment with the capacity to pay of Dominican government. The law also authorizes the Executive Branch to negotiate new …

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The vice governor of the Central Bank, Clarissa de la Rocha denied an item featured in Hoy newspaper, covered yesterday in DR1 Daily News, whereby the last three auctions of certificates of deposit in the Central Bank have been declared vacant. She said that only in the case of the 30 March auction, when RD$9.2 …

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The Dominican government will help private investors building the Santiago Metropolitan Hospital to finish the hospital. Construction had advanced 60% when the economic crisis of 2003 and 2004 slowed it to a halt. As reported in Hoy newspaper, the government reached the decision to contribute equipment and funds for the finishing of the hospital, in …

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The president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Jorge Subero Isa said yesterday that prostitution is legal in the Dominican Republic. He said: “In our country, prostitution is still not an illegal act, but an act that is tolerated by society.” He said that state prosecutors that closed massage centers did so upon finding other …

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