2005 – Page 42

Last night, President Leonel Fernandez appointed economist Hugo Guiliani Cury as Dominican ambassador to Qatar. Guiliani Cury was governor of the Central Bank during one of the Balaguer administrations. Listin Diario informs that Qatar is a country where Arabic is the official language although English is in common usage. Its system of government is a …

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Yesterday, Migration Director Carlos Amarante Baret warned sugar producers that if they want to hire foreign workers, especially Haitians, to work their fields, they must comply rigorously with the law, or face the consequences, as reported in Listin Diario. He stated that a commission assembled by his department, the Ministries of Labor, Public Health, and …

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Interior and Police Minister Franklin Almeyda informed that community leaders from twelve barrios from the northern part of the National District will select 600 high school graduates or university students to study police sciences. Diario Libre reports that the Minister has met with executives from several universities seeking an agreement for the implementation of careers …

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The PLD has voiced its support for the pastoral letter issued by the Dominican Episcopal Conference-the highest directive body of the Catholic Church-regarding the situation of Haitian migration in the DR. As reported in Listin Diario, Secretary General Reinaldo Pared Perez declared, however, that the bishops should have referred to priests Pedro Ruquoy, Christopher Hartley, …

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Cardinal Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez, speaking at the Maximo Gomez Cemetery church on occasion of All Saints Day, criticized the campaign that foreign priests maintain abroad that focuses on Haitians being mistreated in the DR. He also criticized the practice that foreign priests secure Dominican nationality papers for Haitian nationals, as reported in Diario Libre. “Lots …

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The leader of the Masonic Grand Lodge of the Dominican Republic suggested that the DR help Haiti recover its ecology so that it can become economically habitable, as reported in Listin Diario. Grand Master Felipe de Castro said that everyone is aware that Haiti’s territory will become a desert in a few years, that its …

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The foreign exchange rate began to rise again yesterday. Listin Diario reports increases of 80 and 85 cents for the US dollar which closed at RD$34.50 as compared to the closing on Tuesday which was between RD$33.65 and RD$33.70 for sale. Exchange agents were selling the dollar at RD$34.30 and RD$34.50 and were purchasing at …

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Yesterday, the Citibank DR branch and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) awarded the International Micro-Business Awards designed to encourage low-income individuals to start their own businesses and promote the establishment of better practices. Listin Diario reports that ten winners were chosen whose work as small producers has not only helped them finance their families …

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The National Association of Information Technology Companies (Aneinfo) has requested that computers be kept free of the 16% VAT (ITBIS) as they have been exempt from this tax since 1998. As reported in Diario Libre, applying the tax would hinder access to technology of low income individuals as well as small and medium businesses. According …

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The National Drug Control Department (DNCD) has seized 128.8 kilos of cocaine in a consignment of sportswear that was going to be shipped from Puerto Plata to the Bronx Terminal Market in New York. According to Diario Libre, Colonel Radhames Antigua said the shipment was being sent by a “non-traditional exporter”, Juan Danilo de Jesus, …

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