2005 – Page 46

The Latin Barometer Corporation, an NGO based in Chile, has given Dominican President Leonel Fernandez a 53% confidence rating. This report, on 18 governments and their presidents, shows that 62% of the population approves of the government and that 53% have confidence in the President. Now, it should be understood that, according to the Diario …

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Jose Tomas Perez, the lone PLD senator in Congress, announced his decision to not run again on the PLD ticket for the National District seat in the Senate in the May 2006 congressional election. He said his decision comes because a consensus was not reached in the party to consolidate a candidacy. Meanwhile, the PLD …

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Economist and historian, Bernardo Vega writes in El Caribe newspaper today that the numbers of undecided voters has increased, as per results of the survey carried out by the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Sociales (CIES) of UNIBE, under Wilfredo Lozano and Ramon Tejada Holguin. The poll indicates that the number of undecided voters went …

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The DNCD has arrested three Colombians and a Venezuelan with 39.22 kilograms of heroin. The arrest in Santo Domingo is the largest of its type so far. According to Vice-Admiral Ivan Pena Castillo, the four were arrested on Lovaton Street in Santo Domingo’s Gazcue neighborhood as they were getting ready to move the cache to …

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The head of the Dominican National Department for Drug Control (DNCD), Vice-Admiral Ivan Pena Castillo, told reporters that his intelligence officers had uncovered a plot to murder former Colonel Lidio Nin Terrero. Nin Terrero is currently in custody as part of the case involving Quirino Paulino Castillo and the 1,387 kilograms of cocaine that was …

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One month and 20 days into the much ballyhooed fuel conservation program, nobody can say just how much fuel is being saved. The speed bumps and the scrapped vehicles still clutter many streets, and the engines of the OMSA buses have not yet begun to be exchanged. While billboards and radio and television ads proclaim …

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The Chief of Police, Major General Bernardo Santana Paez, told reporters that he had no evidence that any members of his force are working for private entities. Nonetheless, he did say that hundreds of agents working for private individuals have been identified and located. He added that there are too many police officers in some …

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The much discussed ITBIS, the Dominican version of Value Added Tax – VAT, if applied at 16% on all goods and services, has the potential to generate RD$62.8 billion pesos for the national treasury. This is the number that appears in the proposed tax reform legislation that President Leonel Fernandez submitted to Congress. It shows …

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The answer to that question is not really known, according to the government’s General Accounting Office. In January 2006, the unit will begin the “Module of Patrimonial Accounting” that will allow the nation, for the first time, to know just what belongs to the government and how much it is worth. GAO director Guaroa Guzman …

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The Inter American Human Rights Commission, a branch of the Organization of American States (OAS) will be visiting the Dominican Republic in the next few days to look at the plight of illegal Haitian immigrants. Diplomatic sources told El Nacional that according to rules of basic courtesy the Human Rights Commission is just waiting for …

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