2005 – Page 99

The consumption of fuels fell by 10.6% between January and July of this year. According to Diario Libre, demand for propane gas was higher than the demand for gasoline or diesel fuel. This information from the Department of Hydrocarbons, part of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, shows that, for example, the sale of GLP …

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Jose Luis Moreno, director of the Energy Institute at the state UASD University, has told El Caribe that the World Bank only exists to defend companies. In his opinion, for the nation to continue borrowing from abroad to inject resources into the power sector is the same as the useless taking on of debt, given …

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The contract for the artificial island that is to be built in front of Santo Domingo’s sea front awards its promoters a 99-year concession to the property. President Leonel Fernandez has expressed his support to the construction of the island that has been harshly criticized by international and local urban planners. The contract also allows …

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Historian, economist and former diplomat Bernard Vega takes a serious look at the current geopolitical situation in the Caribbean and does not like what he sees. According to Vega, in the first place, the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was taken out of Haiti and Venezuela, and this makes things much more difficult for …

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Businessman Cesar Nicolas Penson shares some statistics on the economic and social differences between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the two countries that make up the island of Hispaniola. He points out that Haiti occupies 37% of the island and four of its nine departments border the DR. Most of the eight million people who …

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The judge of the Third Penal Court of Santo Domingo, Julio Cesar Lara, has sentenced former deacon Meregildo Diaz Diaz to 20 years in prison, after establishing his guilt as the instigator of the murder of Joel Alexander Diaz Sarmiento and his wife Yaniris Ruiz. In his sentencing hearing the judge also imposed a 30-year …

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The pilot, a 10-year old boy and two other passengers of a Cessna 172 are alive today after a “miraculous” landing in the middle of traffic at Kilometer 9 of the Duarte Highway. The accident happened as the pilot was preparing to land at Herrera International Airport, adjacent to the highway. The accident occurred yesterday …

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The National Pathology Laboratory has had to bury 105 bodies of victims of violent deaths that have never been claimed. According to El Caribe, between 118 and 20 people die a violent death each month, either as a result of a shooting, stabbing or being hit by a vehicle, and the bodies are abandoned in …

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The heavily populated barrio called Capotillo, located in the northern reaches of Santo Domingo, has enjoyed a week of peace and quiet after President Fernandez decreed that the Police should patrol the streets day and night when he inaugurated his “Democratic Security Plan”. Kids were playing under the hot sun, and little girls were throwing …

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The Dominican Republic is through to the second round of the Pre-World FIBA-Americas Basketball Championship that is taking place at Santo Domingo’s Virgilio Travieso Soto Basketball Stadium. In Group B, the DR moved on with a three games win to one loss record. The DR only lost to Argentina, which is the Olympic champion. In …

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