2007 – Page 109

Today’s popular A.M. column in Diario Libre asks the question: Transportation? Editorial commentator Ines Aizpun asks the question because she feels that there is no safety on the streets. The award-winning journalist says that logic dictates that vehicles used for public transportation should be inspected with much more acuity than those used for private use. …

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Exports of scrap iron and steel make up the fourth largest part of all Dominican exports. The increase in the theft of metal, electric cables and bronze items was reflected by the fact that export of these metals nearly doubled in the first half of 2007. As reported by Diario Libre, scrap iron and steel …

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Rafael Abreu, executive vice president of the National Workers Union (CNUS) said that Dominicans would pick up the health costs for an estimated more than a million illegal Haitians who live in the country, because the National Social Security Law establishes that health services cannot be denied. With the new National Health Plan (SFS), the …

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Lawyers representing the accused in the Baninter case, regarded as the fifth largest bank collapse in history, began presenting their closing arguments yesterday. They are expected to continue for another four days. In his opening address, lawyer Juarez Castillo Seman dismissed proof and witnesses on which the prosecutors based their case, especially the validity of …

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The chief of police has reported the confiscation of 197 automobiles and 484 motorcycles due to improper placement of license plate or the total absence of this item. Due to license plate theft, many people have taken to placing the plates inside the rear windows, and, of course, there has been a perennial shortage of …

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The Inspector General of the Army has ordered the detention of several of the men involved in the deaths by shooting of three men in Moca jail. The three men were supposedly attempting to break out of jail during the early hours of last Monday. The District Attorney for Moca, Jacobo Marchena, told reporters from …

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A total of 31 Dominicans, including two minors, were picked up on the high seas by a unit of the United States Coast Guard and returned to La Romana. They were handed over to the Dominican authorities, along with fuel tanks and personal possessions. Recently, the Dominican authorities warned of an increase in the number …

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President Leonel Fernandez is traveling to the US in mid September to attend Dominican Week and Counterpart International events in Washington, D.C. and New York City. President Fernandez is scheduled to speak in Washington, D.C. as part of the 15th Annual Dominican Week, organized by the Russin, Vecchi & Heredia Bonetti law firm with the …

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Expanding co-operation with the Dominican Republic, in areas such as economy, commerce, investment, education, science and technology, is what Vietnam is seeking, stated President Nguyen Minh Triet, as reported by the Vietnam News Agency. The state leader made the affirmation while hosting Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso in Hanoi on 31 August. This is …

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The Representatives, Agents and Pharmaceutical Producers’ Association (ARAPF) has announced that they have resolved their differences with the government on the issue of medical prescriptions. ARAPF vice president Fernando Ferreras says that doctors can now prescribe any medicine to patients, whether generic or name brand. Ferreras explained that doctors wanted the freedom to prescribe the …

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