2006News

Brought to justice

The suspected murderer of Augusto Beras Goico Guzman, nephew of TV personality Freddy Beras Goico, has been apprehended. Jose Martinez Alcantara was caught by the Police six years after he allegedly shot and killed Beras Goico on Avenida Abraham Lincoln while attempting to rob the young man who had just withdrawn money from the bank …
2006News

Freedom of press challenged

The director of El Caribe and vice president of the Inter-American Press Society (IAPA) Manuel Quiroz, speaking at the society’s 62nd General Assembly in Mexico City, expressed his concern about the recent assaults on journalists in the Dominican Republic, and stated that the increased violence would affect journalistic work. In his speech, Quiroz listed the …
2006News

Damajagua visitor site inaugurated

A major accomplishment of community empowerment, the Damajagua Visitor and Conference Centers and new facilities at the Damajagua eco-tourism site were inaugurated on Friday, 29 September in the presence of United Nations representative Niky Fabiancic; Moises Pineda, director of the Inter-American Development Bank; William Brands, deputy director of USAID; Romeo Massey and Don Clark, director …
2006News

No more pork for NGOs

According to the director of the National Planning Office (ONAPLAN), the government will not approve funds in the 2007 budget for any of the NGOs sponsored by current or former legislators. Guarocuya Felix told reporters from Hoy that President Fernandez had so ordered his office as it prepares the 2007 budget and sent his recommendations …
2006News

Dengue slows down

In spite of one more death at the Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital in Santo Domingo, the Minister for Public Health is reporting a decrease in the number of new cases. According to Listin Diario, Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez reported just six new cases at the Robert Reid Hospital, two at the Luis Eduardo Aybar …
2006News

SIE wants to tax non-regulated users

Electricity Superintendent Francisco Mendez has told a television audience that if the Superintendent of Electricity (SIE) were to apply the letter of the law, the increase of non-regulated electricity users purchasing current directly from the Independent Power Providers (IPPs) would precipitate the collapse of the entire system. Mendez accused the private sector of trying to …