2006 – Page 46

The Christmas Affairs Committee has announced that during the holiday season, when a large number of visitors enter the country, they plan to install a security system extending from Las Americas International Airport (AILA) to the Juan Bosch Bridge in Santo Domingo in order to protect visitors traveling to the city from the airport from …

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22-year old Santo Domingo-born Hanley Ramirez of the Florida Marlins has won the Rookie of the Year award for the National League, edging out Ryan Zimmerman by just four points. Ramirez becomes the sixth Dominican player to win the prestigious award. Alfredo Griffin (BlueJays) was the first Dominican to win the award back in 1979, …

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The Dominican Republic has joined other Asian, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations in asking the European Union to maintain its tariff of EUR176 per ton of bananas from Central and South America. The DR maintained that this tariff has helped the region increase its imports to the European Union and prevented “social problems”. According to …

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The Dominican government has designated Monte Plata as “The Second Millennium Town” and expects to spend billions in order to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in the province. El Seibo was selected as the First Millennium Town. These projects are being coordinated by the Presidential Millennium Goals and Sustainable Development Commission. According to …

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The recurring teachers strikes affecting the state-run Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) are propagated by a complex mix of struggles, both political and economic, that have nothing to do with the issue of health insurance. According to Diario Libre, its sources are saying that the strikes are motivated by a series of decisions by …

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The Central Bank reports that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October, which is based on prices from September, experienced a variation of 0.10% due to price increases in food, alcohol and tobacco. The CPI for September was -1.10%. The increases in these products were offset by decreases of 1.43% in premium gasoline and 2.73% …

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The Dominican Republic has to pay US$2.248 billion over the next two years. The nation has to pay US$914 million or RD$30.644 billion at the current rate of exchange in 2007, according to figures from the Ministry of Finance’s Public Credit Department. So far in 2006, the government has paid US$823 million and still has …

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The Consumer Protection Law (Law 385-05) has been a dead letter since it went into effect in September of 2005, and little has been done to protect consumers when they purchase a product. According to Listin Diario, this law was approved to protect consumers from unscrupulous traders, but it only illustrates the impotence of consumers …

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The fifth anniversary of the Flight AA587 air disaster that took 185 Dominican lives as well as the crew and people on the ground, 265 altogether, was commemorated in New York City and Santo Domingo yesterday. The auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo Amancio Escapa said Mass for hundreds of relatives of the victims at the …

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Doctors are worried about the increase in the number of surgical procedures they have to perform as a result of violent acts. In just one hospital in Santo Domingo, the Salvador B. Gautier, the medics have carried out 2,878 operations to repair damage to arms and shoulders inflicted during some act of violence. Dr. Severo …

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