2005 – Page 62

President Leonel Fernandez has created an agency charged with fulfilling the World Trade Organization’s health requirements, as well as guaranteeing local agricultural heritage. The new agency created by Executive Decree number 515-2005 is called the Comite Nacional para la Aplicacion de las Medidas Sanitarias y Fitosanitarias, a national committee for the application of health and …

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A follow-up meeting between President Leonel Fernandez and the hotel and tourism sector yielded some favorable results yesterday. President Fernandez indicated that he had ordered infrastructure projects for more than US$500 million to be carried out in the east and another US$100 million in projects for the north coast. According to Hoy, the two-hour meeting …

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The World Bank has approved the US$151 million loan needed to finish the highway from Santo Domingo to Samana. The loan guarantee goes into effect, according to El Caribe, in 2007. The Ministry of Public Works reported that the highway would be ready in two years after the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency approved …

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In response to a report in yesterday’s papers revealing that the radars at Las Americas and Puerto Plata were not working, the Director General of Civil Aviation has told reporters that they would be fixed immediately. According to Hoy, Juan Fernandez Castillo and Leonardo Rivera, the leaders of the Dominican Air Traffic Controllers Association, held …

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As announced over the weekend by President Fernandez, the concessionary contract that will allow a Spanish company, Generacion Eolica Internacional (GEI), to create the first wind power farm in the Dominican Republic was approved by the government’s National Energy Commission. The wind farm will be built in Matafongo, Bani, in Azua province. The first stage …

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Administrator of the governmental power companies, Radhames Segura acknowledged that the Cogentrix contract signed during his first term at the head of the CDE (today CDEEE) “possibly should not have been signed,” as reported in El Caribe. He nevertheless said that the PRD congressmen share the blame for having confirmed the contract in Congress. In …

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The president of the American Chamber of Commerce, Kevin Manning, revealed that the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) were willing to renegotiate their contracts with the Dominican government, providing that the current frozen debt is reduced at the same time. Managers from Seaboard and AES Dominicana were in agreement as they participated in a seminar discussing …

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The board of directors is set to approve the purchase of 50,000 barrels of petroleum per day from Venezuela under the Petro-Caribe Accords. The deal will include 26,000 barrels of crude oil and 13,000 barrels of gasolines, aviation fuel, diesel and kerosene and 1000 barrels of fuel oil. Refinery president Aristides Fernandez Zucco told Listin …

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More than a thousand Haitians have voluntarily left Mao and its vicinity recently, as a response to the pressure exerted by the local district attorney German Diaz Bonilla. The villages of Remate and Jinamagao in the Guatapanal section of Valverde province were the object of the official’s demand that property owners forcefully remove any illegal …

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Mao-Monte Cristi bishop, Monsignor Tomas Abreu Herrera urged the Dominican government to assume the Haitian migration problem with more seriousness and responsibility, as reported in the Listin Diario’s 11 October issue. He addressed the traditional laissez-faire attitude of the government that has led to the widespread migration of illegal Haitians across the border. Listin Diario …

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