2005News

President offers to mediate between US and Venezuela

President Leonel Fernandez said yesterday that the DR is willing to help “to calm the rhetorical confrontation that exists between the US and Venezuelan governments”. Listin Diario reports that Fernandez referred to this when asked about the Dominican Republic’s relationship with the US and Venezuela, in a conference of the Council of The Americas held …
2005News

Schools refurbished

The Ministry of Education delivered checks for RD$39.2 million to 30 engineers selected as contractors for the remodeling of an equal number of schools in different parts of the country. These funds include advance payments for the initial work and others are installments for construction work already in progress. The Ministry has designed a national …
2005News

Radars lacking

The DR does not have the tri-dimensional radar system required for the monitoring of illegal activities or unauthorized incursions into Dominican air space, and this facilitates illegal air operations such as the plane that landed on the road near La Romana last 18 August (see DR1 Daily News 19 August 2005), according to Diario Libre. …