2005 – Page 209

The Attorney General for the Dominican Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito greeted the around 750 prosecutors and judges that attended the first session of the Justice Department’s evaluation process over the weekend. The process for the prosecutors is being carried out in the UNIBE classrooms and at the National Justice Department School for the different attorneys …

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The authorities from the Ministry of the Environment are not planning on re-seeding the areas affected by the recent forest fires that damaged tens of thousands of tareas of forests. Although reports vary, approximately 150,000 tareas (about 25,000 acres) were destroyed in the fires. However, the affected areas of the J. Armando Bermudez and Jose …

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A mega-project that will affect both banks of the Ozama River could get underway this month. However, some congressional leaders are saying that the project that already has the approval of President Leonel Fernandez needs their approval. For over 70 years, many similar ambitious projects have been presented to transform the old port facilities and …

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The spike in oil prices over the past three weeks is threatening to put even greater pressure on the Dominican economy. The oil invoice for last year grew by 17.8%, reaching US$1.667 billion, in spite of a 10.3% drop in imports. Another way of saying this is to point out that the oil bills for …

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The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic is reporting that the inflation rate for March was -0.07%, and that the first quarter of the year saw inflation at just 0.75%. As a result, the family food budget got a small break. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for March puts the annual rate of inflation at …

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Many of the local industrial, commercial and merchant leaders are asking the government to consider a new tax reform package that takes into account the need to keep local industrial and productive sectors competitive in the world markets. The new program has three main points. They acknowledge that the Dominican tax system must be guided …

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The Association of Dominican Banks (ABA) released a statement that defended the banking system and refuted the accusations made by former President Hipolito Mejia that said that the banks were confronting a crisis. The ABA press release said, “In the banking sector, the realities speak for themselves and discard any idea of a crisis.” According …

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They are children having children. As reported previously in DR1 Daily News, the number of adolescents having babies is a very serious problem. Previous reports centered on the University Regional Hospital in Santiago, called the “Cabral y Baez,” where 2,500 children are born each year to adolescent mothers. Today’s report from the country’s largest maternity …

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Dominican legal migration to the United States is one of the fastest growing populations and is gaining more and more access to the credit system, and is getting ever more attractive to politicians and commercial people. Even though 59.3% of the Dominicans that live in New York and report sending remittances back to the Dominican …

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Cabarete community members are gathering national and international support to impede that the access road to Playa El Encuentro, the country’s leading surfer beach, be closed off to public access in Puerto Plata. Members of the community protest the show of force and influence that has lead to the illegal privatization of the coastal Camino …

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