2005 – Page 216

Germania Perez, who is in charge of the forestry in Villa Altagracia, north of Santo Domingo, accused illegal wood traffickers of taking advantage of the drought to cause fires to draw attention away from where they would engage in wood cutting. She said in Parque Haina-Duey they were able to confiscated oak, cedar, mahogany wood …

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The president of the Dominican Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Dr. Milton Cordero said that at any given time 29% of those pregnant in the DR are of age 10-19 years. He urged that more facilities to attend the special needs of teenagers be built. He said that only San Lorenzo de los Mina, La …

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Tonty Rutinel Dominguez (PRD-Province of Santo Domingo) blasted former Duarte province senator Julio Gonzalez (Machacho) for selling his senate seat to former director of the Presidential Public Works Supervisory Office, Hernani Salazar. Rutinel said he would request a disciplinary session at the next meeting of senators on Tuesday. He accused Salazar of paying RD$40 million …

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Hatuey de Camps, the dissident ousted PRD president who has formed his own party, the Partido Revolucionario Social Democrata, has suggested that the government negotiate individually with the PRD senators that he says make their own decisions and have their own needs and would be willing to receive all the support of the all powerful …

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Marino Vinicio Castillo (Vincho) told the Listin Diario that former captain Quirino Paulino Castillo, accused in New York and Santo Domingo courts of drug smuggling, and former presidential advisor and supervisor of public works Hernani Salazar together lobbied during a visit to the border with Minister of Armed Forces Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez for the …

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The Department of Prevention of Corruption (Depreco) has issued criminal charges against six former officers of the Mejia government for fraud, among other charges, in the distributing of 51 of the 200 green houses among relatives and close friends in perjury to the state for RD$500 million. Former President Hipolito Mejia contracted a US$39 million …

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El Nacional newspaper published yesterday the list of the beneficiaries of the vehicles that the Police over the years has recovered from thieves but instead of returning them to the due owners distributed amongst themselves and persons of influence. The list includes at least 38 generals and 94 colonels. The practice began in 1988 and …

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President Leonel Fernandez announced yesterday that the government has contracted the Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley to restructure the sovereign bonds in order to move on to the restructuring with the Paris Club. Morgan Stanley, along with JP Morgan, participated in the sovereign bond offering of US$500 million in October 2001 that mature in 2006. …

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President Leonel Fernandez was in Santiago yesterday to witness the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Public Health and the PUCMM university of Santiago. The university commits to manage four public health centers located in Santiago (Bella Vista, Cienfuegos, Ensanche Libertad and Monte Adentro). The PUCMM already manages the Centro de Atencion Primaria …

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President Leonel Fernandez, who created the new post of Metro Minister when announcing his August 2004 cabinet, and had firmly endorsed the start this year of the first line of metro, now seems to be having second thoughts. As reported in El Caribe, President Fernandez said that until he gives the go ahead, Metro Minister …

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