2005 – Page 275

Cesar Medina in his column in the Listin Diario today points out that there are many people that have the impression that the true partners of Quirino, people that he says in the past government did very well, now are trying to put everyone in the same bag to be able to get out of …

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Cameraman Miguel Antonio Fernandez (Kadafi) is recovering after being shot at by a watchman on service at the Dominican Fiesta Hotel. He was filming the hotel on assignment by the Association of Hardware Stores that was holding an event at the hotel. Bolivar Alcantara Amancio shortly after fired at his supervisor, Domingo Augusto de Aza, …

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Because several games had been rained out, archrival fans from Santo Domingo and Santiago are in for a baseball treat ? a mini-playoff between the Licey and the Aguilas over the weekend. The two teams have three games scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as reported in El Caribe. The Aguilas yesterday won their first …

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President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated yesterday the RD$980 million Supreme Court of Justice and Attorney General palace in the Centro de los Heroes. The eight level building had been almost completed at the end of the first Fernandez administration, but President Mejia, for reasons undisclosed, did not allow its completion. It took the new Fernandez government …

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President Leonel Fernandez has named 2005 as “Year of Recovery.” Decree 1-05 points out the recent measures that have lead to a climate of confidence and positive expectations for recovery. President Fernandez explains that the country needs the greatest of collective efforts in order to surpass the serious economic crisis and consolidate economic recovery.

The government is asking Shell to pay RD$237 million in past due payments dating back to 1994. As reported in Hoy newspaper the dividends are due on Dominican Petroleum Refinery profits of RD$1 billion. The source says that the new government has asked the refinery to deliver the financial statements for 2002 and 2003 that …

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The Department of Taxes (DGII) announced that tax collections in 2004 reached RD$60 billion, up from RD$40.9 billion in 2003. Juan Hernandez, director of the DGII, said that his greatest efforts in year 2005 will be directed to reduce evasion of the ITBIS, the 16% tax on sales. He said that in the first months …

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The Superintendent of Power, Francisco Mendez said yesterday that city sectors that pay for the service will receive longer hours of power than barrios where most residents are fraudulently hooked into the system. He said that the barrios where few pay for the service would receive on average 10 hours of power a day. Over …

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Ruben Bichara, administrator of EdeSur power distribution company said that they have detected and put an end to fraudulent operations of RD$800 million carried out by employees of the company, as reported in the Listin Diario. The employees had contacts with some 300 companies to which they granted power bill reductions of up to 90% …

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The director of the Department for the Prevention of Corruption (Depreco), Octavio Lister denounced that directors of the Plan Renove reaped US$600,000 in fraudulent money against the governmental OMSA, in addition to delivering vehicles of less worth than those that had been requested and billed to the government, as reported in Hoy newspaper. He denounced …

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