2007 – Page 113

The Office for the Reorganization of Transport (OPRET) has announced the closure of the capital’s Malecon seafront boulevard between Maximo Gomez and Abraham Lincoln avenues on Saturday from 3pm to Monday at 6am. Rainwater and sewage works for the Santo Domingo metro will carried out in the area. Access will be possible using north-south roads. …

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Environment Minister Omar Ramirez Tejada has reinstated the Quisqueya Verde Plan (Green Quisqueya) along the border with Haiti. As reported in El Dia, he announced a plan to invest CAN$25 million in the tree planting that begins in October. He said that the plan would be carried out jointly with the Canadian venture to rescue …

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Tourism Minister Felix Jimenez defended himself during questioning in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, indicating that he has always been transparent in his dealings as a real estate businessman. The Chamber of Deputies had summoned him alleging conflicts of interest between his work at the Ministry as an industry regulator and his work as a …

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President Leonel Fernandez’s eldest daughter Nicole Fernandez was admitted to intensive care at the Gynecology and Obstetric Clinic yesterday. Fernandez went to the clinic emergency room complaining of a sharp pain. No official word from family members or doctors on Nicole Fernandez’s condition has been given, despite requests from the press. Diario Libre reports that …

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Julio Cesar Castanos Guzman, president of the Central Electoral Board (JCE) warns that political parties are turning into big bureaucracies. As reported in Hoy, he said that the time would come when a cap to the amount of money that parties receive will need to be imposed. If not, they will get “astronomical sums.” Political …

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In today’s El Caribe columnist Miguel Guerrero comments on how Dominicans have consistently been known to cast their votes against candidates, instead of in their favor. He mentions that Dominicans voted for Guzman to get rid of Balaguer, and then went on to re-elect the latter, when wanting to rid the nation of the PRD. …

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Last week, the town of Las Galeras in Samana became the first part of the DR to benefit from clean electricity generated by wind power, according to Jose Oscar Orsini, president of Luz y Fuerza de Las Terrenas, C. por A. power company. The operation of the country’s first commercial wind-powered generator, a 60KW generator, …

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Haitian Ambassador Fritz Cineas has told Hoy newspaper that trade between Haiti and the DR is up this year. He said that official records show that Haiti imported US$147.9 million from the DR in 2006. This year, he expects imports to increase to US$160 million, given that the half-year figure is around US$75 million. He …

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In the continuation of the state prosecutors’ closing arguments in the case against Baninter executives and advisors, Judges Antonio Sanchez Mejia, Pilar Rufino and Esmirna Giselle Mendez heard lawyers Lorenzo Fermin and Ramon Pina Acevedo, who represented the state monetary and financial authorities and rejected conclusions presented by prosecutors yesterday calling for 20- and 6-year …

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US Coast Guard authorities have announced that anyone who enters the US illegally will be sentenced to 20 years in jail and a maximum fine of US$250,000.The Coast Guard says that since it implemented a bio-metric identification system, 42 small vessels have been intercepted and data on 1,134 people has been recorded. Since the program …

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