2005 – Page 43

False council member Ramon Alberto Cabral de la Cruz has been the first of the 39 being sought by the Attorney General’s Department to be arrested for his connection to the official passport fraud that was uncovered several weeks ago. According to Diario Libre, he was posing as a PRD council member from Jima Abajo. …

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The PRD has expelled senators Tonty Rutinel Dominguez and Ramiro Espino as well as the mayor of the municipality of Guaymate, La Romana, Estela Ozuna. Listin Diario reports that Rutinel Dominguez was expelled several hours after he submitted his resignation to the PRD and renounced his seat in the Senate whereas Espino and Ozuna have …

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Former PRSC presidential candidate, Eduardo Estrella urged his fellow party members to dedicate their time to comb the country to support the party’s own candidates in the 2006 congressional and municipal election rather than negotiating an electoral pact with fellow opposition party, the PRD. As reported in Diario Libre, he commented that while it is …

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The best horseback riders in the country will take part in the VI Copa Federacion Equestrian Festival to be held from the 4th to the 13th of this month at the Palmarejo complex. Listin Diario reports that more than 500 horsemen will be riding horses trained to jump, train, endurance, reining, and indoor polo. The …

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Starting last Monday, the Dominican Republic has a new area code, 829. This code will join the famous 809 area code for all phones in the DR. The head of INDOTEL, the governing body for telecommunications, Jose Rafael Vargas, told reporters that the phone companies will assign the new areas code to new customers of …

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The Chamber of Deputies Finance Committee has not been able to fulfill its commitment to report on the tax reform proposals because of differences of opinion between the deputies and government officials concerning the new taxes and the broadening of the existing tax bases. Meanwhile, Hoy reports that government officials have returned to the Presidential …

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The Central American participants in the DR-CAFTA trade agreement have negotiated a deal that will provide them with compensation for the use of regional textiles instead of Asian textiles in the manufacture of clothes for the United States market. This is the result of a concession that was granted to the textile manufacturers of the …

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Customs director Miguel Cocco has announced that his office was “tired of getting the intermediaries”, and that they were now going after the “big fish”, who finance contraband activities. The head of Customs said that he was unhappy with the Justice Department and described it as a “brake” on the efforts of his department to …

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Carlos Manuel Alvarez, the head of the Santiago Free Zone Association, told reporters that despite the crisis that is affecting the sector, there is a feeling that 2006, with the DR-CAFTA treaty in place, will see a recovery. The industrialist said that 2005 has been a hard year for the Dominican Republic’s industrial free zones, …

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Former Central Bank governor Luis Toral has told reporters from Listin Diario that the government will have an additional RD$51 billion in the next fiscal year as a result of a combination of factors, such as savings on payments of the foreign debt and the increase in cash flow due to the tax reform legislation. …

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